Between moss-covered peat bogs and glacial valley lakes, water-logged troughs mostly line the gentle slopes of the sub-Antarctic island coasts. A few rare flowering plants find refuge there, plants that are fond of spaces rich in nutrients brought by marine animals....
These clouds west of Spitsbergen do not bode well. Unusually heavy rainfall has already caused landslides in Longyearbyen. Photo: Michael Wenger The Svalbard archipelago has been repeatedly hit by extreme rainfall in the last decades, which is very untypical for the...
Summit Station is a National Science Foundation-funded year-round station at the highest point of the Greenland Ice Sheet. In addition to atmospheric research, projects for astronomy, astrophysics and meteorology are also carried out. The rains are the first ever...
