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...
An ice-free Arctic ocean would be a disaster for animals such as walruses, polar bears and other animals who rely on sea ice for their habitat, but it would also jeopardise important ecological processes (Photo: Michael Wenger) Temperatures in the Arctic are rising...
The Fukushima nuclear disaster began with the earthquake at 2:47 p.m. on March 11, 2011, and occurred simultaneously in four of six reactor units. Meltdowns occurred in units 1 to 3. Large amounts of radioactive material, about 10 to 20 percent of the amount of...
Every year, millions of seabirds nest on the rocky coasts of Chukotka (like here on Kolyuchin Island). Guillemots and puffins, gulls and numerous other species have found rich feeding and undisturbed breeding grounds in the region. But the idyll is deceptive: the...
Negative trend continues, but comparatively moderate shrinkage of ice extent in 2021 (Photo: AWI, Mario Hoppmann) The sea ice extent in the Arctic Ocean reached its annual minimum of 4.81 million square kilometres on 12 September 2021. As such, the 2021 Arctic sea-ice...