As Greenland melts and rises
With the rapid melting of the ice masses covering Greenland, the island has risen by 20 cm in 10 years. A situation that will pose certain problems for Greenland.
With the rapid melting of the ice masses covering Greenland, the island has risen by 20 cm in 10 years. A situation that will pose certain problems for Greenland.
A moldy building in Nuuk and a desire to perform for the country’s remote settlements are behind the decision.
The changes to the landscape in Greenland are unmistakable: The ice is melting, vegetation is spreading – almost 30,000 square kilometers of ice have disappeared in the last 30 years.
In Brest, France, polar and maritime law expert Anne Choquet and polar navigation specialist Hervé Baudu were invited to speak at a symposium at the École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées (ENSTA). The results show that the North’s attractiveness in the maritime sector has certain preconceived notions.
The Supreme Court of Canada has just upheld the constitutionality of Act C-92, which allows the country’s Indigenous communities to manage their own child and family protection services.
A contemporary French diplomat, Olivier Poivre d’Arvor projects himself into the year 2048, when the Antarctic Treaty expires, the balance of power shifts towards mining or maintaining the embargo, and it becomes possible to communicate with birds.
In a two-part article, guest author and Professor Doaa Abdel-Motaal discusses food security in the Arctic. Today, PolarJournal is publishing the first part about the Arctic as a food exporting region and the renaissance of traditional Arctic cuisine.
Critics say that Greenland’s two mandatory seats in Denmark’s Folketing create confusion and undermine the Greenland government.
Sparing energy or spend it to find calories. On land, polar bears have little choice but these two alternatives, even if both fail to maintain polar bears’ body mass.
Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) discovered that apparently little nutritious jellyfish make up a considerable part of the diet of amphipods during the polar night.
Environmental and Infrastructure issues present challenges at the southernmost US research station in Antarctica.
A new study has just documented an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency in the villages and communities of northern Canada. The solutions are multi-factorial, but essentially depend on the food sovereignty of indigenous peoples.
The Norwegian government has adopted stricter environmental regulations on Svalbard, which will come into effect on January 1, 2025, with significant consequences for tourism.
French ethnologist and geographer Jean Malaurie died on February 5 in France at the age of 101. PolarJournal looks back at the career of a passionate and committed man.
A northern elephant seal bull showed highly unusual behavior when he saved a pup from drowning in California.
A new, scaleable online platform in Greenlandic aims to help those struggling with their mental health.
What happened to the very first people who lived in Greenland? Nobody knows. But maybe we’ll soon get the answer.
When two scientists team up with a filmmaker, the result is Nittaituq. A short film made in a Nunavut village, documenting the Inuit’s approach to climate change.
From the convolutions of frozen rivers to the concentration of plankton and sediment, from the advance of a glacier to the symmetry of ice, satellite images of the polar regions offer a breathtaking spectacle.
The polar bear outlines and fills the Arctic with its wanderings, to the point of touching the imagination of human beings, who live close to them. Its image is sometimes used for more or less noble purposes. In his essay in French, Rémy Marion attempts to restore the “ice wanderer’s” natural gait.
The Community Council of Longyearbyen on Svalbard is terminating the lease agreement with the Russian Consulate General in Barentsburg for premises in Longyearbyen as of March 31, 2024.
A process that was further developed for practical applications by two research groups at the ZHAW means that water stored in liquid form at temperatures as low as -120 °C can be used to develop life support systems for extreme environments, which could be of great interest to polar stations and communities in the future.
The Arctic comes to Zurich. NONAM has put together a program around the Far North that should delight Arctic enthusiasts and specialists, adults and children.
In the new Arctic Resilient Communities Youth Fellowship, 17 young people from Alaska, North Canada and Greenland traveled to each other’s countries.