In the future, more Russian aircraft, like UTair’s Antonov AN-74, may soon be seen in Longyearbyen. (Photo: Heiner Kubny) The first charter flight with tourists from Russia to Spitsbergen is scheduled to take off in April 2024. Moscow or Murmansk are mentioned...
A joint team from the Franco-Swiss Alpine regions has published an article in Nature exploring the natural areas that will be exposed by retreating glaciers between now and 2100, calling for recognition of this unique character and the services these areas provide to...
Zdenka Sokolíčková is an ethnologist. She spent two and a half years in Longyearbyen where she has conducted research, interviewing 220 inhabitants about the many changes Svalbard is facing currently. The results were published in her book The Paradox of Svalbard....
The RV Oceania, a 48-metre three-masted schooner built in 1985 at the Gdańsk shipyards in Poland, designed by Zygmunt Choreń. Image: Kajetan Deja / Katarzyna Dragańska-Deja / Jan Marcin Wesławski / IO PAN From the deck of their magnificent sailing boat, in a...
Landscape of the Alaskan lowlands north of the Brooks Range. Image: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service A study lifts the veil on the evolutionary origins of the tundra, a vast Arctic biome shaped by falling temperatures and rising grounds. Grasslands dotted with dwarf...