A picture from happy days: tourists admire the mighty Greenland Ice Sheet and enjoy the steps in bright sunshine. For more than a year, international tourists have hardly made such moves. Picture: Michael Wenger For the tourism sector in the Arctic regions, the COVID...
T-Rex, which roam the Alaskan Arctic wilderness as a family and spend the entire year there. This is how the researchers and the painter James Havens imagine the situation in the Cretaceous period. Fossil finds by researchers support the notion. Image: James Havens...
The largest U.S. wildlife refuge in the Arctic, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been the site of a back-and-forth over oil exploration for decades. Now the U.S. government has put the extraction rights sold by the Trump administration on hold because of legal...
In Alaska the fight for gold, silver and bronze is on again. The 2018 medals were in the shape of an ‘Ulu’, the traditional knife of the indigenous peoples of the North. (Photo: AWG) The 2024 Arctic Winter Games will be held in the Matanuska-Susitna...
“The Secret Garden” by Mexican team Julio Martinez & Anton Luzukin (8th place, double block). Fairbanks is home to the Ice Art Championships, one of the largest ice sculpture competitions and exhibitions in the world. Since its beginnings in 1990, the...