A new project launching this week in Dundee brings together long-lost stories, photos and personal artefacts from Scottish whaling communities, not to glorify the industry, but to preserve its human history before it disappears entirely.
In an article for Polar Journal AG, Marie-Noëlle Rimaud advocates "finding a way out from the top, through intelligence". The lecturer and researcher in tourism economics and management calls for the development of a win-win strategy between foreign investors in the tourism sector and the island's inhabitants, who see the importance of this sector for the future of their economy.
The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) has been announced by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation as the winner of the 2025 €1 million Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity, in recognition of their work protecting one of the world’s most climate sensitive regions.
gulbenkian.ptOne of the most inflluential inuit representation organisations, the Inuit Circumpolar Council ICC, has been granted the Permanent Consultative Status at the International Maritime Organisation IMO. Thus, the ICC can better help to shape the future of Arctic shipping and its impact on indigenous land and sea areas.
www.inuitcircumpolar.comThe Antarctic Treat Secretariat, the executive body of the Antarctic Treaty, has a new head: The former Head of the Chilean delegation to the meetings, Francisco Javier Berguño, was officially elected as Executive Secretary. He will start his new position on September 1, 2025.
www.ats.aqBelow the ice masses along the coast of East Antarctica, opposite to Australia, an international team detected a massive river landscape that had formed between 80 and 34 million years ago. This area is likely to impact the flow of the glaciers above according to scientists.
www.bas.ac.ukNew research has for the first time tracked ice shelf, sea ice and ocean swell wave conditions over multiple years in the lead-ups to three large-scale iceberg ‘calving’ events in Antarctica, revealing common patterns.
www.unimelb.edu.auHe drives around icebergs and tells whale stories. Jens Lyberth Svenningsen is originally from southern Greenland, but after working in Denmark as a chef in an international context, he settled in Ilulissat and worked in the fishing industry. He is now employed by a local tourism company to run cruises in Disko Bay aboard an aluminum boat.
Jens Lyberth Svenningsen, local guide in Ilulissat.
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