The data on heavy metals in the permafrost soils of Alaska is as holey as the karst soil in the tundra. This is the conclusion of a recent study. Picture: Steve Jurvetson Flicker.com, CC BY 2.0 Heavy metals are no longer uncommon in the Arctic. The sometimes massively...
The red and green areas on snow patches on the Antarctic Peninsula come from various types of algae that find perfect growing conditions under or on the snow. Mostly thanks to the penguins. Photo: Michael Wenger Snow should be white and as a child you are always...
The air of times long past lies frozen in the ice of the Antarctic continent. The small air bubbles at the heart of the ice provide information about the components that made up the Earth’s air thousands of years ago. Image: NASA Ludovic Brucker Finding out the...
Imagine all of Belgium is on fire and there are almost no people around to fight all the fires. This is roughly the current situation in many Arctic regions of Russia, Canada and Alaska. Since June, hundreds of fires have been blazing in tundra and taiga regions,...