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Jun 17
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Arctic Deep-sea Mining at a Crossroads

By Yannika Baier Deep-sea mining, Mining, Social and Cultural System
So, what exactly do we mean by Arctic deep-sea mining? We’re talking about the extraction of minerals like manganese, cobalt, nickel, copper, and rare earth elements - materials essential for the energy transition - from depths often beyond 200 meters.…
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Dec 04
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Polar Talk #9: People! Beyond a “romantic-wild” nature in an “untouched” Arctic

By Iris Climate Change, Co-creation, PolarTalk, Social and Cultural System
As part of the celebrations to mark the 10th anniversary of the Austrian Polar Research Institute APRI and the opening of the special exhibition "Arctic. Polar World in Transition", the ninth Polar Talk took place as a "science slam" at…
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May 24
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Exploring Canada’s Northern Transport Infrastructures

By Iris Field report, Interview, Social and Cultural System
As Austrian Polar Research Institute Media Officer, I had the pleasure to talk to Philipp Budka from the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna about his InfraNorth project responsibility. Mag. Dr. Philipp Budka is a…
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Mar 16
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Immersing into the snow

By Iris Climate Change, Cryosphere & Climate, Field report, Social and Cultural System
Snow2Rain fieldwork report from Tasiilaq, East Greenland, Part III Now it is my time to report on our walk into the snow. Well, I knew I would be landing in Tasiilaq when winter and the first snow had already arrived…
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Mar 09
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Exploring changes in snow

By Iris Climate Change, Cryosphere & Climate, Field report, Social and Cultural System
Snow2Rain fieldwork report from Tasiilaq, East Greenland, Part II ‘An anthropologist and a snow climatologist walk into the snow...’ This sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but for me, it was the beginning of an interesting collaboration which…
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Mar 02
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Into the Snowy Realm

By Iris Climate Change, Cryosphere & Climate, Field report, Social and Cultural System
Snow2Rain project: fieldwork report from Tasiilaq, East Greenland, Part I This report from the field provides an insight into the complexity, challenges and learning opportunities of two early-career scientists during their research for their interdisciplinary research project Snow2Rain. In our…
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Apr 22
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On hold – Polar research during a global health-crisis

By Iris Blog, Social and Cultural System
'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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Apr 09
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Yukon mining history from First Nation Elders’ perspectives

By Iris Social and Cultural System
Have you heard of the Klondike Gold Rush? We guess you did. But how do First Nations in Canada experience mining on their traditional homelands today and how do they think about the past 100 years of mining in their…
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