Magma has been erupting from the interior of the Fagradalsfjall volcano on the Reykjanes peninsula for the past two years. The nearby village of Grindavík has now been evacuated and will not be resettled for the foreseeable future. (Photo: Government of Iceland)...
The German Neumayer Station in Antarctica is just one of the 64 research facilities that researchers can use as part of the POLARIN network. Photo: Klaus Guba The EU is funding the new POLARIN (Polar Research Infrastructure Network) research infrastructure project...
Physicists planning big at the South Pole are facing a tough test of patience as pressing infrastructure problems force the U.S. National Science Foundation to postpone construction of new telescopes and neutrino detectors. (Jeff Warneck, NSF) Physicists planning big...
(Photo: Anick Marie) Were this a normal year, Lake Geraldine, the city of Iqaluit’s reservoir, would be nearly full right now. Nunavut, however, has seen a lack of rain this summer that has left the local water department unable to refill the reservoir after its level...
The road that would run through it (Map: Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority) It is described as America’s ultimate wilderness and a place where outsiders go to seek solitude, but, ever since 1980, and the passage of a piece of federal legislation...
