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...
Lightning in the Arctic could become commonplace in the future. (Photo: RTL Interactive) The Arctic offers many attractions, be it the landscape, but also flora and fauna. Again and again the auroras zapping in the night sky fascinate people. These have now been given...
The 157-metre-long tanker “Ginaldag”, built in 2002, is underway in the ice. (Photo: D. Lobusov) The Clean Arctic Alliance, an international coalition of 21 non-profit organizations, last week called on the ‘International Maritime Organization’...
Rosmorport, Russia’s state-owned port development company, is expected to use dredging vessels to remove 80 million tonnes of seabed from the Gulf of Ob over the next few years. (Photo: Rosmorport) Never before has the Arctic experienced an industrial expansion...
A fisherman near Ilulissat. The place is at the epicentre of climate change in a region where there is this very delicate triple interaction between inland ice, the ocean and society. (Photo: Heiner Kubny) In view of the global temperature change that is changing life...
