09/08/2026 | Heiner Kubny
New island emerges off Svalbard
Meltwater flows across the surface of an Arctic ice cap and plunges into the sea over the massive glacier front. The illustration depicts processes such as those that occur during the summer melt period at Austfonna on Nordaustlandet, Svalbard.The retreat of the glaciers is changing the map of Spits
09/07/2026 | Polar Journal AG Team
Longyearbyen Literature Festival marks 10 years
For ten years, the Longyearbyen Literature Festival has celebrated literature and culture in the High Arctic, bringing writers, readers and the local community together. (Image: Public Domain)The world’s northernmost literature festival has begun in Svalbard, bringing six days of literature, film an
09/06/2026 | Heiner Kubny
India plans its first polar and ocean museum in Goa
The Bharati research station in the Larsemann Hills of East Antarctica is India’s most modern Antarctic base. Since 2012, it has served as a base for international research projects on climate, geology, glaciology and oceanography. (Photo: NCPOR)India aims to raise public awareness of its polar and
09/05/2026 | Yana Kirichenko
Indigenous Women’s Day Amid Greenland’s Contraception Case Legacy
September 5, 2026 marks the first International Day of Indigenous Women, while a decades-old case concerning their treatment in Greenland continues to be addressed. Nearly 90% of Greenland’s population is Inuit, comprising three major groups: the Kalaallit, the Iivit and the Inughuit/Avanersuarmiut.
09/04/2026 | Yana Kirichenko
Narwhals become research assistants in Greenland
“Our partnership with narwhals” – this is how the study’s authors describe their work, referring to the tagged animals as “unconventional research partners.”A group of narwhals has helped scientists fill major gaps in observations of East Greenland’s coastal waters, providing measurements from place
09/03/2026 | Rosamaria Kubny
Penguin fossils become climate archives
A comparison of fossilised and modern penguin bones. The fossils from Seymour Island were analysed using micro-X-ray fluorescence to reveal chemical traces of past environmental and climatic conditions in Antarctica. (Photo: Boyang Xia et al. / Fossil Record)Millions of years old penguin bones from
09/03/2026 | Heiner Kubny
Permafrost: Less CO₂ than feared?
Thawing permafrost on the coast of Qikiqtaruk (Herschel Island) in the Canadian Yukon. Sliding slopes transport sediments and organic carbon into the Arctic Ocean. (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institute / Jaroslav Obu)In the long term, the Arctic Ocean could store significantly more carbon from thawing pe
09/02/2026 | Heiner Kubny
Blood Falls reveal a new mystery
The photograph shows Angela Zoumplis and Natalie Aranda taking samples at Blood Falls in January 2023. (Photo: Bryan Minnear)Beneath the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica lies what appears to be a biological legacy from a time when seawater extended far into what are now the McMurdo Dry Valleys. At the f
09/02/2026 | Heiner Kubny
Why krill does not clog fin whales’ baleen
With every gulp, fin whales take in huge quantities of krill and seawater. New research shows that their baleen should actually become clogged in the process. When filtering its food, the fin whale forces the seawater it has taken in through its baleen. New research shows how the elastic baleen prev
09/01/2026 | Heiner Kubny
Book review: The NULL Archive
A mystery from the ice dating back to 1943. A mysterious death in Berlin in 2026. And a vulnerability in global IT security that could lead the world to the brink of disaster.A single faulty key in the eternal ice alters the course of two centuries’ history.Berlin, 2026: When civil engineer Liv Voss
09/01/2026 | Rosamaria Kubny
Bird Flu Threat: Australia Withdraws Team from Macquarie Island
Young southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) have made themselves comfortable right between the buildings of the Australian research station on Macquarie Island. Seals regularly gather there among the station buildings, and researchers must share the limited space with the island’s animal inhabi
08/31/2026 | Yana Kirichenko
Russia maps its historical heritage on Svalbard
The Russian Geographical Society says it plans to document hundreds of objects linked to Russian history on Svalbard for a new Arctic heritage database and atlas. Barentsburg, seen from Grønfjorden, is Svalbard’s only permanently inhabited Russian settlement. (Image: Svalbard Photography)The Russian
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