The impressive building of the International Antarctic Center in Punta Arenas, Chile, will be located directly on the Strait of Magellan. Image: Gobierno de Chile The International Antarctic Center in Punta Arenas has come one step closer to realization: Almost...
The image from NASA’s Aqua satellite shows several large fires near Great Bear Lake in Canada’s Northwest Territories. In the meantime, the situation has eased somewhat due to rainfall. Image: NASA Earth Observatory In recent years, news of devastating...
The 2,400 inhabitants of Longyearbyen and the thousands of tourists depend on regular flights to get to the Norwegian mainland quickly. But for a week now, almost nothing has been possible due to a pilots’ strike at SAS. Image: Michael Wenger Svalbard has in...
Bowhead whales are among the animals in the study that were found to be contaminated with persistent organic compounds. Photo: Heiner Kubny Unlike pollution with plastics or exhaust gases, there is less public awareness of the contamination of the environment with...
Alaska showed above average temperatures already in May and it continued through the end of June. For example, in the northernmost community of the U.S. state, Utqiavik, 18°C was reported. This leads to supply problems and also more wild and tundra fires. Image: NASA...