AWI study shows that jellyfish in the Arctic Ocean are benefiting from climate change and spreading further north. (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institute / Joan J. Soto-Angel) Climate change is putting countless marine organisms under pressure. However, jellyfish in the...
Homelessness in the Arctic comes with extra challenges. To avoid hypothermia, people inflicted by homelessness sometimes have to stay in stairwells like this one in Sisimiut, Greenland’s second largest city. Photo: Piitannguaq Egede at Unsplash It has been more...
The Chinese icebreaker Xua-Long-2 departed Shanghai on 12 July for the 13th Arctic expedition. (Photo: CHINARE) China’s thirteenth Arctic expedition team set sail July 12 on a mission that is expected to last until the end of September, covering a voyage of...
“Improving the daily lives of Arctic and Northern populations through the application of technologies and innovation, under the light of the inhabitants of these regions” This is the ambition of the Arctic and the North Challenge programme, which aims to...
For scientists to understand the role that the changing environment in the Arctic Ocean plays in global climate change, the ocean beneath the ice sheet must be mapped. (Photo: Troy Barnhart, Chief Petty Officer of the US Navy) A team of MIT engineers has developed a...
