Excerpt from “Alfred Wegener’s Letzte Grönlandfahrt” Image: From “Alfred Wegener’s letzte Grönlandfahrt”, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1940 The project application by APRI member Jakob Abermann, University of Graz, which has recently been...
Arctic fishing has developed into a large-scale and lucrative industry, not least because of climate change. But that also means that new control mechanisms have to be created. Image: NOAA Fisheries Scan, Wiki Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 The Arctic Ocean is Earth’s...
On the scientific side, several research station and two Polar research vessel (here: Xue Long) underline China’s ambitions as a Arctic power. However, the plans of the Chinese government go far beyond research and science as outlined in the White Paper...
The research icebreaker Laura Bassi has been in Italian service since 2019. Built in 1994, the 80-metre vessel first sailed for Norway, then for the British Antarctic Survey. Up to 50 expedition members can be accommodated on the ship named after the first European...
The Northern Sea Route as defined by Russia comprises the Arctic waters between Cape Zhelanya on Novaya Zemlya in the east and Cape Dezhnev in the west. Most of the seafloor aerea is subject to massive changes due to inflow of sediments by the huge Russian rivers....
