The Argentine research station, Base Primavera, on the Antarctic Peninsula. (Photo: Shaun Brooks) By Shaun Brooks, CSIRO Scientific research in Antarctica has played a key role in many important discoveries of the past century. But it has also come at a considerable...
On the left, Naaja H. Nathanielsen, Greenland’s Minister of Enterprise, Trade, Mineral Resources, Justice and Gender Equality, shakes hands with Maroš Šefčovič, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for the Green Pact for Europe,...
The sign of the East Greenlandic municipality of Ittoqqotoormiit not only welcomes visitors. Unwanted guests like PFAS are now also finding their way into town and residents, literally speaking. (Photo: Michael Wenger) The polyfluoroalkly substances (PFAS) known from...
Located in northern Alaska, the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska was created in 1923 by then U.S. President Harding to reduce the U.S. Navy’s dependence on coal. Since the 1990s, numerous oil and gas exploitation projects have been conducted in this more than...
At first glance, a pristine Arctic landscape in Svalbard. But trapped in the snow and ice below lie numerous residues of our existence in the form of pollutants, transported by air masses. Image: Michael Wenger For some time now, an abbreviation has been making...
