Melting glacier in northwest Greenland. (Photo: Julia Hager) Scientists and Alliance of Concerned Nations urge UN New York Climate Ambition Summit to “take 2°C off the table” to Prevent Catastrophic Impacts from Melting Ice Representatives of a broad...
Where should the boot liners go? (Photo: Jochen Bettzieche / SLF) Matthias Jaggi, a technician at the Swiss WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, will spend the festive season in Antarctica. The luggage for his long expedition is travelling ahead of him....
Anna-Sofie Skjervedal had started as Head of the Arctic Hub secretariat back in 2020, in the midst of the Covid pandemic. Despite this, she managed to turn the Arctic Hub into a keyplayer of Arctic research in Greenland. (Image: Arctic Hub) In just three years, Arctic...
In the 1970s, the geographer Bent Hasholt wanted to conduct research that mattered to society – so he started calculating rainfall in his free time. In April of 1980 the Danish geographer Bent Hasholt ventured into a cabin near Tasiilaq in East Greenland to find a...
The Alaska flag flies from the bow of a boat in one of Ketchikan, Alaska’s small-boat harbors on Monday, July 24, 2023. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) With more coastline than all of the other states combined, Alaska has quite the maritime history. And...