Beluga whales in East Greenland may belong to an endangered population in Svalbard. Photo: Michael Wenger The population in East Greenland benefited only briefly from the beluga whale quota that was reintroduced this year. The Greenlandic government had to impose a...
The medium-sized pink-footed geese prefer the Arctic regions to raise their offspring. Besides Svalbard, East Greenland and Iceland are also among their breeding grounds in summer. Image: Dr Michael Wenger For many bird species Svalbard offers a richly laid table in...
Beluga whales, which live in the Arctic, are toothed whales and use echolocation to track their prey. Photo: Michael Wenger After a decade of work, a Danish-German research team deciphered how toothed whales generate the clicks they use to locate and catch their...
Bowhead whales prefer proximity to sea ice and are the only baleen whales that live year-round in Arctic and subarctic waters. Photo: Heiner Kubny Greenland whales are slowly recovering after the end of commercial whaling. There are now about 25,000 of them in the...
Since 2020, Arktika has been escorting LNG carriers from Siberian petrochemical complexes between Murmansk and the Bering Strait. Image: Rosatom The conflict in Ukraine is straining the political and economic situation in the Russian Arctic, and the dream of free...