When nature takes her paintbrushes, the result is the Belcher Islands. Located on Hudson Bay, they are home to the small community of Sanikiluaq and its thousand inhabitants. Image: Landsat 7 / USGS From the convolutions of frozen rivers to concentrations of...
The 40-kilometer-long Icefjord is mostly completely covered with brash ice and icebergs from the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier, which is one of the few places where ice from the Greenland Ice Sheet directly enters the sea. Photo: Julia Hager Since 2004, the Icefjord near...
Modernity in combination with the Greenlandic tradition. This is what the new airport of Ilulissat should look like. (Photo: Kalaallit Airports) The airport projects in Nuuk, Ilulissat and Qaqortoq continue to attract great public, political and media attention....
Meltwater pond. After two years of smaller losses in 2017 and 2018, the ice sheet is now on the road to increasing ice loss. (Photo: Heiner Kubny) The Greenland Ice Sheet recorded a new record ice loss in 2019. This was the conclusion of a team of international...
Uummannaq, which has a population of about 1,400 – The Greenland government hopes that this summer’s promotion of tourism will help offset the financial impact of COVID-19 on the tourism industry. (Photo Heiner Kubny) As the booking figures for the summer...