The emergency services tried to prevent the worst with oil spill containment barriers. (Photo: Marine Rescue Service) Spectacular news in the media usually follow accidents and incidents, such as the spill of 21,000 tonnes of diesel fuel in Norilsk in May 2020. Events...
Sentinel-2 satellite image of a freshly drained thermal karst lake on the northern Seward Peninsula in northwest Alaska. Image from Juli 3, 2018. (Picture: ESA Sentinel-2) The frozen permafrost in the Arctic is thawing on an alarming scale. By analysing an annual...