“I think we also need to think about who Longyearbyen is for. Is it meant to be pretty for tourists? Practical for industry? For the people who live here?” “You don’t have an upper class and a lower class but…
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'For a scientist working in polar regions, the COVID pandemic feels like moving a penguin into a tropical rainforest - simply a paradox situation.' A metaphor used by Dr. Birgit Sattler to describe the present time. As the world was…
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by Renate Degen / Since summer 2018 the Arctic Traits Database – the first database to provide detailed ecological information on organisms inhabiting the Arctic sea floor – is online and freely accessible. The corresponding paper was published in February…
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The European Space Agency recently published an article on Annett Bartsch and b.geos' research on permafrost using satellite images from space. Read the article here.
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