View of the snow overburden on the exterior of the arches containing the Amundsen-Scott Station’s power plant (exhaust pipes on left), logistics warehouse (left doorway), and vehicle maintenance facility (right doorway). Extensions to the air vents for the arches can...
The Gåshamna landing site in the southwest of Svalbard will remain open for expedition cruise tourists. However, the eastern area will only be accessible to 39 people at a time. (Photo: Julia Hager) The Norwegian government had long announced stricter regulation of...
Only 9% of the population still belong to the indigenous community, living off reindeer herding and housing in tents. (Photo: Sergey Karpukhin) As part of the complex expedition “Clean Arctic – Vostok-77”, a group of anthropologists from the Center...
One of the ice cores taken as part of a Norwegian-US expedition in East Antarctica and analyzed for various toxic and non-toxic heavy metals. Lead contamination in the ice dates back to the 13th century. Image: Stein Tronstadt, Norwegian Polar Institute (courtesy of...
Plastic pollution is omnipresent on many of Svalbard’s beaches. (Photo: Julia Hager) Along with climate change, environmental pollution is one of the most pressing problems in the Arctic and Antarctic. For some years now, research has increasingly focussed on...
