Based on a polar bear picture taken in Wrangel by François Bernard – Sebastião Salgado’s guide in Greenland – Sara Bran has produced Captif. Picture: Camille Lin Sara Bran, a lace-maker on gold, is off to Greenland this summer to enrich her artistic...
Portal Point on the Antarctic Peninsula. Photo: Julia Hager Edward Hanna, University of Lincoln and Ruth Mottram, Danish Meteorological Institute A heat wave in Greenland and a storm in Antarctica. These kinds of individual weather “events” are increasingly being...
Sometimes bad space weather causes our communication systems to break down – particularly in the Arctic. For this reason Ph.D. fellow Sarah Schultz Beeck is developing maps, showing where in Greenland the space weather causes bad or no connection. In an emergency...
Polar bears can take whatever weather nature dishes out. But how will they fare in an Arctic where extremes occur more frequently (Photo: Michael Wenger) Frigid temperatures make the Arctic an extreme environment in and of itself. But a changing climate and a still...
Last July, a combination of lightning, dry weather and unusual heat fuelled hundreds of wildland fires in northern Canada. According to federal authorities, 136 fires were burning in the Yukon and 65 in NWT (pictured above) on 6 July, the date this image was taken...
