Isfjord Radio is located at Kapp Linné, at the south-western tip of Isfjorden, 50 km as a crow flies from Longyearbyen. Once used for maritime traffic, Isfjord Radio now serves as a base camp for tourists from Longyearbyen. Like the rest of the archipelago, the site...
Greenlandic soil is full of critical raw materials, minerals essential to modern technologies and, consequently, to the economy of EU countries and the green transition. Here, the Skaergaard site in the east of the island which contains platinum group metals,...
Birefringence in the service of fashion. Together, a designer and an artist-director have created garments whose prints are inspired by the colours and patterns of sea ice when viewed through a microscope with a polarising filter. The result was presented at New York...
South Georgia is a haven for many species of marine mammals and birds. There are five million seals of four different species, and 65 million birds of 30 different species breeding on the island. Whether plant or animal, non-native species are a real threat to...
Blowing snow is when snow on the ground is lifted and pushed by the wind. A common and natural phenomenon in the Arctic, whether on pack ice or, as here on the ice caps, where the wind lifts the snow off the vast expanses of pack ice. Photo: Wikicommons The Arctic is...
