Nanoplastics detected in polar ice
A team of European researchers has for the first time been able to detect nanoparticles of plastic in decades-old ice from Greenland and in Antarctic sea ice.
A team of European researchers has for the first time been able to detect nanoparticles of plastic in decades-old ice from Greenland and in Antarctic sea ice.
Copenhagen’s foreign-policy strategy is designed in Denmark, but it is made in America
More than 9,000 years ago, an extremely violent solar storm hit Earth – and it did so during a solar minimum, which concerns scientists.
Even in clear-cut cases, returning cultural items can be a lengthy process
The northern part of Norway needs a new way for access due to avalanches
Blue, fin and other baleen whales take in tens of thousands of liter of water while feeding. A new study explains how they manage not to drown.
An increasingly open Arctic is an increasingly noisy Arctic for its maritime life
AWI researchers model how climate change has altered the ice sheet over the past thousand years and could affect it in the future.
In the three Scandinavian countries, 96 wolves are to be culled. However, an injunction stopped the killing of 25 wolves in the protected area in Norway.
A failure to invest in maintenance is starting to show
Dealing with it will be hugely expensive
A culprit — if one is found — may not turn out to be the stuff spy novels are made of
Norway’s gas and oil industry had a banner year, but the good times will only continue if drillers get a little more ambitious
An offensive Russia and a rising China are problems for Denmark everywhere, but perhaps least so in the Arctic
The increase in rabies cases in Arctic foxes in Nunavut appears to be related to a large increase in the fox population.
Since mid-December, the drinking water supply in Nunavut’s capital had been restored. But just 6 days later, it was compromised again.
PolarJournal strengthens its editorial team by working with US journalist Kevin McGwin
But the two options its owner has been given are equally likely to result in failure
Prince Albert II of Monaco is planning a visit to Svalbard this summer in memory of his ancestor Albert I.
Conservation groups eye a potential precedent that can be used to halt oil and gas drilling elsewhere
After decades, a case that had actually been shelved could finally be solved – weather data led the scientists to the solution.
The chefs of Koks will bring their uncompromising approach to taking food with them. The country’s tourism industry is more interested in what they will leave behind.
A small part of the Greenlandic population does something good for a healthy cardiovascular system by eating sweets. A genetic variation is responsible for this.
In the Canadian Arctic they breed together in the same spots, but after the breeding season the three smallest Stercorarius species take completely different routes.