Greenland goes ALPS: the former Alpine Museum of Switzerland, now the ALPS Museum, in Bern, allows visitors to immerse themselves for the next 22 months in a region that shares many similarities with Switzerland and yet is so very different: Greenland. (Photo: Georg...
The Arctic Council, once the most important platform for addressing Arctic issues and a place of cooperation and dialogue, is now limited in its ability to act. At least at the working group level, exchanges and discussions have resumed. But there is no real dialogue...
This photo by Dominik Plüss of the St. Chrischona Church in Bettingen outside Basel was part of a compilation of Swiss northern light photos last week. Photo: Dominik Plüss The news photographer Dominik Plüss captured the northern lights above a church in Basel,...
Northern lights, also known as auroras, are one of the most spectacular polar phenomena of all. Last week, the dancing swathes of light appeared at the most unusual places, even in the Mediterranean region and in South Florida. Video: Youtube Channel CBS News The...
The Arctic Council’s functioning depends very much on the working groups, as they actually carry out the Council’s activities and organise projects and programmes that are adopted at ministerial level. (Photo: Arctic Council, Gunnar Vigfusson) Ever since...
