The 100Pax Greenland Explorer designed by KNUD E. HANSEN will attempt to make cruise ship visits mutually beneficial for remote Arctic settlements. Image: KNUD E. HANSEN artist’s impression. Courtesy Visit Greenland and Stefan Ittu Hviid. Photo by Mads Pihl. The...
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...