Arctic fisheries is a very lucrative business but also impacted by climate change. But due to shifts in ocean currents, new upwelling areas could provide new fishing ground. Image: NOAA Fisheries Scan, Wiki Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Due to climatic changes, ocean currents...
The Alaska flag flies from the bow of a boat in one of Ketchikan, Alaska’s small-boat harbors on Monday, July 24, 2023. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) With more coastline than all of the other states combined, Alaska has quite the maritime history. And...
Ice-wedge polygons spread over the permafrost terrain near Prudhoe Bay on Alaska’s North Slope, are seen from the air on July 17, 2018. Permafrost scientists plan to develop new artificial intelligence-aided technology to track the changes that thaw makes in...
A catamaran is towed alongside the icebreaker Polarstern for a survey of plastic pollution in the Arctic Ocean (Photo: AWI / Esther Horvath / Robex) Greenland has joined a group of 30 countries that are pushing for a treaty that would put an end to plastic litter by...
The one jet to bind them all (Photo: Norad) When the Finnish ministry of defence, at the end of last year, announced that it had settled on a replacement model for its ageing fleet of warplanes, the choice should have caught few off guard. If the four manufacturers...
