Gennady Shchukin (right), a representative of the Dolgan people, and Andrey Danilov, a representative of the Sami people, in Berne. (Photo: swissinfo.ch) A year ago, a fuel storage tank burst at Norilsk-Taimyr Energy’s No. 3 thermal power plant, flooding rivers...
McMurdo Station is the largest research and logistics station in Antarctica and is operated by the United States Antarctic Program (USAP) of the US government. The year-round facility was built in 1955/56 on Ross Island on the coast of McMurdo Sound for the...
Everything south of 60 degrees latitude is now called the ‘Southern Ocean’. (Graphic: NGS) National Geographic magazine, with cartographer Alex Tait, announced on June 8, 2021, that it now officially recognizes five oceans, adding the “Southern...
Reindeer grazing in the Russian Arctic. The breeding of the animals is one of the most important sources of income for the indigenous peoples in the north of Russia. (Image: Heiner Kubny) Swiss banks may not be the most obvious allies for indigenous communities...
Reindeer herd of the nomadic indigenous Chukchi community of Nutendli in the tundra of the lower reach of the Kolyma River, Sakha-Yakutia, Russia. (Photo: AWI / snowchange.org) The European Union will provide 15 million euros from the Horizon 2020 Programme to fund...
