There is static on the line among the Cook Inlet belugas
Ship noise covers seven of the 41 calls made by belugas in the Anchorage area, forming an isolated population that could become extinct.
Ship noise covers seven of the 41 calls made by belugas in the Anchorage area, forming an isolated population that could become extinct.
COP28 came to a close in Dubai on Tuesday, with the Arctic taking part, reminding us of the need to take circumpolar Indigenous populations into account in the discussions.
One of the most prolific cities for studying the Arctic regions is going from strength to strength, with the Centre for Ice, Cryosphere, Carbon and Climate (iC3) attracting more and more international scientists to study the carbon cycle in the polar regions.
An investigation found that some whales were dead before becoming ensnared, but critics of bottom trawling have more questions about this year’s large death toll.
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Leading scientists, global youth and negotiators from low-lying nations highlighted the potentially disastrous implications of climate-change-induced sea level rise for the host city.
A young Norwegian Sámi start-up has just won a prize at the last Arctic Futures Symposium for clothing that combines modernity and Sámi traditions.
The Inuit Circumpolar Council sent COP28 a position paper with five recommendations, with the Inuit at the heart of the decisions and the need to urgently act.
Four of the eight Arctic nations are among the top five in the world when it comes to equality for the LGBTQI community on a national level.
In Greenland, 25 of the 34 critical raw materials for the energy transition are present in significant quantities, and last Thursday the European Union and this country signed strategic agreements to develop sustainable value chains for the exploitation of these resources.
From Inuit for Inuit: “SIKU – The Indigenous Social Network” is a unique, highly versatile and powerful social network that enables Inuit to share their knowledge, current observations and stories with other Inuit.
The second International Symposium on Plastics in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic in Reykjavík showed important successes, but also revealed where urgent research and action is needed.
Many scientists are calling for a roadmap of polar ecosystems to help them better understand and preserve them.
The cellular structures of the algae that turns slush red in spring in the mountains and summer in the polar regions have just been described on a microscopic scale.
SLF biologist Christian Rixen writes about his expedition to Greenland in the footsteps of historical botanists – and climate change.
When Greenlandic women in remotely located towns are pregnant they have to leave family, friends, and familiar surroundings behind to go on stressful and lonely “birthing trips”.
Every year, Nunavut organizes a competition for songwriters in Inuktut. A way to promote Nunavut Indigenous languages while showcasing local artists.
The ice downstream of the glaciers in northeast Greenland is very important for their stability, but a third of this ice has disappeared since 1978.
Reykjavík has organised a high-level symposium on plastic pollution in the Arctic for today and tomorrow.
Greenland’s polar bear populations have been retreating for 20 000 years. A slight rise in sea temperature can have major consequences for these animals.
A natural phenomenon in the poles, the absence of nacreous clouds in climate models could explain why these models underestimate warming in the Arctic.
Chain migration, favorable job opportunities, and a fast track visa process are reasons for the sudden rise of Filipinos in Greenland. Once the economic cycles turn bad, many may need to return.
Last week at the Greenland Science Week conference in Nuuk, more than 300 scientists met across a different segmentation: their shared geography.
Geneviève Pons and Jérôme Chappellaz remind us of the importance of One Planet – Polar Summit as the cryosphere is in distress.