Fire in the Antarctic sky instead of fireworks: The entire PolarJournal team wishes all readers a happy new year and only the very best for 2024. Slowly, 2023 is drawing to a close and final preparations are being made for New Year’s Eve celebrations around the...
Plastic pollution is omnipresent on many of Svalbard’s beaches. (Photo: Julia Hager) Along with climate change, environmental pollution is one of the most pressing problems in the Arctic and Antarctic. For some years now, research has increasingly focussed on...