As food insecurity greatly affects Inuit communities, community workshops bringing together Elders, hunters, and scientists were held to discuss how to use DNA for Arctic wildlife and food security.Indigenous Elders, community members, hunters and trappers, regional tourism representatives and scien
In the port of Ilulissat, sailors leave and land between the ice every day. We met two of them. They tell us what they like about their profession and the difficulties they face. Joel Hansen, left, sometimes fishes with his son, and Pele Blytmann, right, has a small cabin on his boat. Image: Camill
In a new documentary, CBS highlights the challenges facing Churchill. The documentary focuses in particular on the inhabitants of this town famous for its polar bears. Most documentaries about Churchill focus on the cohabitation with polar bears. The iconic animal of this small town in Canadian Mani
Among the scenes polarjournal.net witnessed this week were the sailors setting sail from the small fishing port of Ilulissat, the parade of locals to the Brugseni supermarket, Easter days and the blue sky.Image: Camille LinFor two weeks, polarjournal.net sent two reporters to Ilulissat to take portr
A translator and interpreter since she was a child, Sofie Schultz Christiansen told us about her story, her passion for languages, her travels and her life in Ilulissat. A translator and interpreter since childhood, Sofie Schultz Christiansen told us about her story, her love of languages, her trave
Among the scenes that polarjournal.net witnessed this week were the sudden melting in April, the first signs that winter is ending, and an outing in the fjord with a group of children we met at the ILLU Science and Art Center.Straight out of the harbor. Image: Camille LinFor two weeks, polarjournal.
Among the scenes witnessed by polarjournal.net this week were a passage over Greenland in a small twin-engined plane and a the sounds of a baptism in a church in Ilulissat dating from 1771.The last days of winter in Ilulissat. Image : Camille LinFor a two-week period, polarjournal.net sent two repor
In contact with researchers who came to live with them to study the pack ice, the two partners have imbibed a scientific culture that they strive to pass on to interested Inuit and southerners alike.A race in the snow. Image: Christian Morel During their 12 wintering trips, the crew of “Vagabond” ne
Attracted by the beauty of the Arctic and in search of rational explanations of how it works, the two partners immersed themselves in a frozen landscape. Ideal conditions in which to meet modern-day Inuit and share a few ancestral customs. This is a two-part article. Here’s the first, and we’ll see
The Polar Retrospective looks at recent stories from around the world’s polar regions. This week we look at a mission to clean up a graffitied building in Antarctica, a new South Orkney Islands map, an increase in Arctic killer whales, and rising tourism prices in Finland. Visiting the Arctic can be
Hervé Baudu, professor of nautical sciences at the École Nationale Supérieure Maritime and member of the Académie de Marine, talks about the collision of the 50 Let Pobedy and the polar seminar of the Arctic Council's Working Group on the Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME), co-organi
The Polar Retrospective looks at recent stories from around the world’s polar regions. From last week we chose: the discovery of microplastic around the Union Glacier, a renewable energy project in Iqaluit and the Belgica pennant classified as part of national heritage.Union Glacier camp from the ai
From Dolgans to Evenks, Yakuts and even the descendants of 19th-century Russians, the Sakha region is still very rural and relies on natural resources for its food and livelihood.Reindeer herding in the Russian Arctic. Illustration : Gisèle Durand RuizYakut carp, wild ducks and blueberries… local po
The scientific station on Amsterdam Island was evacuated.The photo dates from 2017. Since then, the trees have been cut back, but the vegetation remains grassy, short and dry at this time of year. Image: Camille LinThe 31 people on mission on Amsterdam – the southern Indian Ocean island administere
Polar Journal AG relaunches with a fresh design, expanded content including a focus on polar culture, and emphasizing integrated services to deliver a richer experience for its global audience. Polar Journal AG has relaunched its platform on polarjournal.net with a fresh design and expanded content,
A previously unknown perpetrator has sprayed graffiti on the hangar of Whaler's Bay and shocked the polar community with this act of vandalism. The aircraft hangar of the former British station at Whaler’s Bay stands somewhat apart from the rest of the station. Now it has fallen victim to an unprece
The Machu Picchu station is divided into three parts: the living area, the storage area and the helicopter hangar. Image: Peruvian Armed Forces Scientists in Peru have investigated the mental health of staff at the country’s Antarctic station. The results should be used to train teams ahead of new m
A breath of fresh air is blowing through the polar regions of the internet: Polar Journal AG, the popular platform for all polar enthusiasts, will have a new look and a new web address from January 1, 2025. Even penguins are jumping for joy. Because Polar Journal AG is getting a new website and a ne
With the proliferation of AI-generated videos on the internet, a false and stereotypical image of the polar world is spreading, with the risk of replacing the discourse of polar experts. It’s one of the most viewed and shared videos on social media, and one of many of its kind. It shows us the suppo
Karl Krüger with his paddle on a remote Arctic beach. Photo: Karl KrügerKarl Kruger is about half of the way through his journey. In the next two years, he hopes to complete the standup paddle board expedition through the legendary passage. The remote Arctic environments offered him something that i
Regine Møller won Paasisavut, the bi-annual Greenlandic PhD-competion, with a five-minute presentation on her research in the small town of Isortoq. Photo: Emil StachRegine Møller from Aalborg University, Denmark, managed to bring both passion and information to the stage as she won the Greenlandic
In Greenland’s Nuuk Fjord distances are vast. There are no trees and few man-made structures so nothing can sneak up on you. This helps veterans let their guards down. Photo: Militær FotoBy coincidence, Veteran Project Greenland discovered that a stint in unspoiled nature can help alleviate PTSD sym
Her passion for sailing opened up opportunities in Greenland. Illustration: Gisèle Durand RuizPolar tourism in Greenland is not a subject frequently addressed in French economic and social sciences. Yet Marie-Noëlle Rimaud is now able to capture what was once just over the horizon, and observe it th
The Beringovsky mine has been operated since 2016 by an Australian company, which withdrew from the project this summer. The company avoided Western sanctions thanks to a complex set-up of Cyprian and Russian companies, but none of this would have been revealed had the mine not been the scene of an
