Nioghalvfjerdsbrae, also known as the 79°N glacier, is located in the northwest of Greenland. The ice stream, which split into two glacier tongues, became famous when the northern tongue broke off and dissolved completely in 2020. The graphic at the top left shows how...
In June, Europe’s largest wooden schooner, the S/V Linden, will set sail on the first scientific Resolute expedition. On board, scientists will measure essential ocean and atmospheric parameters with the support of citizen scientists. The unprecedented long-term...
Homelessness in the Arctic comes with extra challenges. To avoid hypothermia, people inflicted by homelessness sometimes have to stay in stairwells like this one in Sisimiut, Greenland’s second largest city. Photo: Piitannguaq Egede at Unsplash It has been more...
Prince Albert II of Monaco is the only sitting head of state to have visited both poles. The Princely family has a long history of polar exploration, dating back to Prince Albert I’s Arctic expeditions. Image: Philippe Fitte / FPA2 Last Thursday and Friday, the...
Portal Point on the Antarctic Peninsula. Photo: Julia Hager Edward Hanna, University of Lincoln and Ruth Mottram, Danish Meteorological Institute A heat wave in Greenland and a storm in Antarctica. These kinds of individual weather “events” are increasingly being...