One of the last big international expeditions to the Russian Arctic was the “Arctic Century” expedition led by the Swiss Polar Institute and GEOMAR in cooperation with the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute. All scientific collaborations...
Roy Price, Donato Giovannelli and Erlendur Bogason are ready to dive over the underwater chimney. Photo: Jacopo Pasotti Thinking of Iceland we imagine volcanoes, rain, open spaces where wind and vapours exhaled from a restless land makes it “like being on the Moon”....
Walrus Freya became a media star unasked. But in the end, the authorities had to euthanize the animal because people had gotten too close to it and considered human safety more important. Video: Euro News Walruses belong in the Arctic like polar bears. The mighty...
Friederike Krüger is a teacher in Hannover and was one of only two teachers who could participate in the first leg of the MOSAiC expedition on board the “Akademik Fedorov”. Image: Mario Hoppmann “That’s quite complicated,” is a response I...
Tegetthoff in the ice. Anonymous after Wilhelm Burger, Count Hans Wilczek, 1898. From “Die Weite Des Eises”, Arktis und Alpen 1860 bis heute. Edited by Monika Faber, Verlag Hatje Cantz, Albertina, 2008. Today, Austria’s interest in the polar regions...
