Icefin is an underwater robot that describes the environment under ice shelves using sensors including sonar, camera, chemo-sensitive and bio-sensitive probes. Image: NASA PSTAR RISEUP / Schmidt The launch of an underwater vehicle offers a precise view of the...
Frozen landscape of the Disko Bay in Ilulissat produced by the calving of the glacier Jakobshavn Isbræ. Image: Michael Wenger An event in the life of glaciers that had never been observed before has just surprised glaciologists. A lake resting on the ice cap drained...
Since 2020, Arktika has been escorting LNG carriers from Siberian petrochemical complexes between Murmansk and the Bering Strait. Image: Rosatom The conflict in Ukraine is straining the political and economic situation in the Russian Arctic, and the dream of free...
The motorization of the sailboat allows her to go to the poles, it filters its emissions of particles and nitrogen oxide, and she travels as much as possible by sail. Image: Polar Pod The Piriou shipyard has just delivered the supply ship for the Polar Pod, a drifting...
The car is the main means of transportation in Arctic communities, along with the snowmobile. But ice and snow impede progress there just as they do here, and common snow removal methods create the same problems. Image: Dr Michael Wenger Ice and snow often determine...
