During the warming after the last glacial maximum, there were repeated periods when masses of icebergs broke off in Antarctica, leading to global sea level rise over many hundreds of years. Photo: Dr. Michael Wenger Since the last ice age about 20,000 years ago, there...
A group of false killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) stranded in Western Australia. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 3.0 Mass whale strandings happen all over the world, resulting in the death of thousands of animals every year. Only in regions where a...
Scene from the silent film “A Journey to Greenland” from 1921. Photo: Screenshot Film Centralen Greenland has long held a great attraction for explorers and researchers and has been the destination of numerous expeditions and research voyages over the last...
Belugas occur circumpolar in the Arctic with about 22 subpopulations. Some of them migrate regularly depending on the season, while others stay more or less in the same area all year round. Most populations always migrate from their wintering grounds to the same...
The Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) is an Indigenous Peoples’ Organization (IPO), founded in 1977 to promote and celebrate the unity of 180,000 Inuit from Alaska (USA), Canada, Greenland, and Chukotka (Russia). ICC works to promote Inuit rights, safeguard the Arctic...