Reportage der New York Times über die awkwatch Expedition des deutschen Forschungsschiffs Polarstern. Das Schiff ist ungefähr zu dem Zeitpunkt am Nordpol, an dem das mehr als die niedrigste Ausdehnung hat. Seit 1980 ist das Eis ihre Dekade um etwa 13% zurückgegangen. Zitate von Antje Boetius über die vergangene und zu erwartende Transformation der Arktis.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/climate/arctic-sea-ice-minimum.html

https://taz.de/Klimawandel-bedroht-Nord--und-Suedpol/!5956492/

"Guided by a slight clue," Victor tracks the monster from Geneva along the windings of the Rhone southward to the Mediterranean. He spots the monster hiding in a ship and follows him to the Black Sea, through the wilds of Tartary and Russia. Ultimately, he travels northward into the ice.

Victor followed the Rhone as it winded its way south, toward the Mediterranean.

From 1492 to 1504, Christopher Columbus made four voyages to the Americas and Spanish colonizing of what is now South America extended from 1494 to the 1600s. By "gradually," however, Shelley mody likely means that the Americas could have been "discovered" without imperial violence if Europeans had observed and valued domestic affections over military adventure.