At around 120 centimeters and 90 kilograms, ringed seals are the smallest seals in the Arctic and the main prey of polar bears. They live primarily on the fast and pack ice, where they often lie on the floe edges or next to breathing holes to rest and bask. Image: Dr...
The end of the Gruve 7 mine southeast of Longyearbyen should have come at the end of 2023. But the chemical company Clariant is counting on the black fuel from Svalbard’s underground for years to come. Image: Marcel Schütz The war currently raging in Ukraine...
Most tourists go to Svalbard in mid-summer for various reasons. But autumn has many advantages on the archipelago, such as numerous Arctic animals and later even auroras, coupled with the unique landscape of the archipelago. Picture: Ulrich Kuhn At the end of an...
In Nunavut and the other Arctic regions of Canada, planes are the only means of long-distance transportation. Goods and people cannot reach many of the places like Pond Inlet in a fast way. But that requires fuel, personnel and maintained machines. (Photo: Dr Michael...
Kongsbreen (King’s Glacier) is a two-part ice tongue at the far end of Kongsfjorden in western Svalbard. Further west lies Svalbard’s northernmost settlement, Ny Ålesund on the southern side of the fjord and the tourist-popular island of Blomstrandhalvøya...