Light is one of the essential elements for the synthesis of vitamin D by the skin. Sunset in Nunavik. Image: Martin Tuchschere / Wikimedia Commons A new study has just documented an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency in the villages and communities of northern Canada....
Airships have been around for more than 100 years. Zeppelins, airships and other types of flying machines filled with lighter-than-air gases have enabled slow, steady travel over oceans and other areas of the world that were inaccessible to most short-range aircraft....
A Twin Otter operated by Kenn Borek Air at the South Pole. (Photo: Zane Ziebell, USAP/NSF, CC BY-SA 4.0) One of the most versatile aircraft in the world, the Twin Otter is capable of operating in the harshest of conditions. Canadian aircraft manufacturer de Havilland...
The passenger ferry Sarfag Ittuk is operated by Arctic Umiaq Line. (Foto: Visit Greenland) Arctic Umiaq Line, a Greenlandic passenger shipping company and Hurtigruten intend to work together in the future to promote growth and opportunities in the Greenlandic tourism...
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...
