Like the fog over the airport, the future outlook for Kangerlussuaq’s 500 or so inhabitants is clearing with difficulty. Image: Quirin Soloviev Wikicommons CC-BY SA 3.0 For decades, Kangerlussuaq was Greenland’s international aviation hub, thanks to the...
Two years after the start, Dr. Hanne Christiansen and Dr. Marius Jonassen can now present their awards at the Annual Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik. Image: Arctic Circle On the evening of 14 October 2016, a storm dumped 20mm of rain on the hillsides outside the...
Konrad Steffen (68) was one of the best-known researchers in Switzerland. The former director of the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forests, Snow and Landscape WSL shaped Swiss climate, glacier and polar research for years. He died in an accident in Greenland in...