Arctic fisheries is a very lucrative business but also impacted by climate change. But due to shifts in ocean currents, new upwelling areas could provide new fishing ground. Image: NOAA Fisheries Scan, Wiki Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Due to climatic changes, ocean currents...
Researchers of the EastGRIP project, a 14-nations research project on ice core drilling on the Greenland ice sheet, recently made a significant discovery: ice streams flow as a single block into the oceans, sliding on mud rather than on water. This discovery will have...
Anna-Sofie Skjervedal had started as Head of the Arctic Hub secretariat back in 2020, in the midst of the Covid pandemic. Despite this, she managed to turn the Arctic Hub into a keyplayer of Arctic research in Greenland. (Image: Arctic Hub) In just three years, Arctic...
Vagabond stops at Ipiutaq in summer 2011 to replenish its freshwater supplies (Photo: Éric Brossier). The permanent crew of Vagabond, which has been criss-crossing the Arctic for over 20 years on behalf of science, welcomes a team of geologists from the Université de...
Ice-wedge polygons spread over the permafrost terrain near Prudhoe Bay on Alaska’s North Slope, are seen from the air on July 17, 2018. Permafrost scientists plan to develop new artificial intelligence-aided technology to track the changes that thaw makes in...