Night shot of the main building of the Allfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven. (Photo: Wolfgang Cohrs) On July 15, 2020, the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), will celebrate its 40th anniversary. With its innovative...
Modern technology looks different. There is again another incident in the far north of Russia. In the industrial region of Norilsk, near the Arctic Ocean, large quantities of fuel have entered the environment for the second time in a short period of time. The accident...
Perspective view of the crater Korolev near the Martian North Pole. (Photo: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin) The images were taken by the HRSC stereo camera aboard ESA’s “Mars Express” spacecraft and picture the Korolev impact crater, named after Soviet rocket...
Since phase 1 of the reopening of Greenland on June 15, 2020, there have been no new COVID-19 cases. Authorities want to wait with transition to Phase 2 until test capacity is set up in other cities outside of Nuuk. In the picture you can see a part of Uummannaq....
A model of the drift ice station “Severny Polyus” in the exhibition. (Photo: Roshydromet) Russia’s ice-breaking research station should have been ready to drift over Arctic waters as early as 2020. Construction of the 84-metre-long and...
