The town of Ilulissat, with its brightly coloured wooden houses, sits on the banks of a spectacular ice fjord at the mouth of the Jakobshavn Glacier on the west coast of Greenland. With a population o

Kenneth R. Rosen Polar WarSubmarines, spies, and the struggle forpower in a melting Arctic320pp. Profile. £22. The Norwegian government once invited me on a guided tour of the country’s far north, inc

High water levels, submerged floodplains and fast-moving, debris-laden flows have become a common sight this winter, raising understandable concerns about the impact such conditions may have on our fisheries and fish stocks...

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Giles Catchpole hopes for cool heads in cold climes

Much of southeast England spent 12 January, and days afterwards, suffering water shortages. Extreme weather conditions brought on by Storm Goretti, combined with creaking water infrastructure, left te