The polar regions are an important area for China’s rise to global power. Indeed, it has has long-term strategic and economic interests in the Arctic. These are some of the reasons for its activities there. (Photo: CHINARE) The Arctic Ocean has long been at the...
Visible blow of pod of whales feeding on krill while a supertrawler fishes among them (Photo: Sea Shepherd Global / Flavio Gasperini). Differences have arisen within the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), apparently from...
The Valais capital Sion, new site of the SPI, experiences small geological tremors again and again. The news from the SPI was not a geological one, but it definitely came as a surprise. Image: Christian David via Wikicommons Looking at the seismological list of...
Thwaites Glacier is the cork in the bottle of the West Antarctic Ice sheet. Removing it would spell disaster for low-lying coastal areas and small islands (Photo: David Vaughan) Small islands and low-lying countries that are threatened by sea level rise are currently...
The flags of all Arctic states and member organisations still stand side by side at the Arctic Council. How much longer is the question. Photo: Linnea Nortstroem, Arctic Council The activities of the Arctic Council have been suspended since the Russian invasion of...