The conflict in Ukraine is straining the political and economic situation in the Russian Arctic, and the dream of free movement, summer and winter, on the Northeast Passage, is likely to remain one.
Garbage dumps behind the station was yesterday! The 1959 Antarctic Treaty sets the rules for nations conducting research in Antarctica on how to handle waste.
The work of Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator helped to shape the view on the world and also influenced the view on the Arctic region for many centuries and many famous Arctic explorers.
In Antarctica, unique ice samples were recovered from a depth of 3.5 km. The drill core from the ice layer above Lake Vostok is presumably more than 1 million years old.
Last summer marked the 25th anniversary of the death of famed Swiss photographer Bruno “Penguin” Zehnder, which was honored with a memorial article now published.
The nuclear technology of small modular reactors could illuminate the ceiling lights of Inuit homes, it is not yet perfected, but seems to be advancing, Canada is exploring this possibility.
The Antarctic Peninsula hosts populations of Adelie penguins. They have been declining for several decades, but a population resists in the extreme northeast.
The director of the German Naval Observatory Georg von Neumayer was the initiator of German Arctic research. In October 1899, he was able to present the project of a South Pole expedition.
Rumors have been circulating for some time that Rosatomflot needs more icebreakers. Only recently, the contracts for two more ships have now been signed.
Everything converges to make the Svalbard archipelago an epicenter of tension in the Arctic, and NATO would have an interest in settling the differences within its coalition.