Chasing Ice
This film follows photographer James Balog’s multi-year record of the impacts of climate change on the Arctic.
This film follows photographer James Balog’s multi-year record of the impacts of climate change on the Arctic.
This film documents the effect of chemical and pesticide residuals on the Inuit community of Greenland, where they are carried by oceans and snow. It also examines the situations of those around the globe who must use these pesticides to survive.
In European imagination the North Atlantic has been seen as a region on the far borders of civilization and marked by the contrasts of scarcity and plenty.
Covering four expeditions between 1906–1930, Alfred Wegener’s Greenland diaries are presented in an overview by historian Christian Kehrt.
Historian Christian Kehrt presents a short biographical profile of geologist and polar explorer Alfred Wegener, with historic photographs. Wegener’s diaries from his three Greenland expeditions (1906–1931)—digitized, transcribed, and translated—are the focus of this Virtual Exhibition.
Commenting actual film footage from Alfred Wegener’s last Greenland expedition, literary historian Dorit Müller describes the content and context of this unique material.
In 2013, Christian Kehrt published one of the Environment & Society Portal’s first virtual exhibitions, “The Wegener Diaries: Scientific Expeditions into the Eternal Ice.” The exhibition was updated in March 2020 to make the exhibition responsive and archivable, with only minor changes to the presentation. This page contains links to PDFs of the original 2013 version of exhibition, scans of the original document, and selected transcribed and translated diary entries for archival purposes.