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Svalbard

since 2025 › Jan › 25 (Sat) @ 07:22 UTC

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3 months ago

Arctic glaciers face ‘terminal’ decline as microbes accelerate ice melt

found 2025 › Aug › 15 (Fri) @ 11:05 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Scientists in Svalbard in race to study polar microbes as global heating threatens fragile glacial ecosystems

“It felt really scary … like being in the middle of a burning city during a night raid.” D…

The looming military threat in the Arctic

found 2025 › Aug › 12 (Tue) @ 17:10 UTC

a story from The Economist ✅ › Europe

Great-power competition in the far north puts renewed attention on Svalbard

4 months ago

The Arctic is turning GREEN thanks to climate change: Shocking photos snapped in winter reveal widespread snowmelt and blooming vegetation

found 2025 › Jul › 21 (Mon) @ 09:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

At Svalbard, Norway this winter, scientists encountered exceptionally high temperatures, widespread snowmelt, and blooming vegetation - all symptoms of global warming.

5 months ago

I visited Europe's largest wilderness - where it's illegal to go outside without a weapon and seal is on the menu

found 2025 › Jun › 11 (Wed) @ 14:10 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

John Gimlette spends a week in Svalbard, a little-known destination in Sweden where the latest Mission Impossible was filmed.

6 months ago

Freeze frame! David Lammy snaps an Arctic selfie on taxpayer-funded trip

found 2025 › May › 29 (Thu) @ 00:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Mr Lammy boarded a boat with Norway's foreign minister Espen Barth Eide to view a melting glacier in Svalbard. He is on a three-day tour to Norway and Iceland.

9 months ago

Watch the heartwarming moment three tiny polar bear cubs emerge from their den for very first time - in incredible footage that took 10 YEARS to capture

found 2025 › Feb › 27 (Thu) @ 18:24 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

An adorable video shows the moment three tiny polar bear cubs emerged from the den with their mum for the first time on the remote island of Svalbard, Norway.

Inside the Doomsday Vault: Rare footage provides a glimpse inside secretive bunker in the Arctic - as more than 14,000 new samples are added

found 2025 › Feb › 27 (Thu) @ 18:24 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Located on a mountainside on Spitsbergen, an island in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, the vault houses 'spare copies' of over 1.3 million seed varieties.

How scientists capture a polar bear – video

found 2025 › Feb › 25 (Tue) @ 12:56 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Each spring since 2003, Jon Aars, senior scientist at the Norwegian Polar Institute, and his team have conducted an annual polar bear monitoring program on Svalbard - collaring, capturing and taking …

‘I know their names, what they eat’: tracking polar bears on Svalbard’s shifting icescapes

found 2025 › Feb › 25 (Tue) @ 12:56 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

For more than 20 years, scientists have followed the animals in Norway’s Arctic archipelago to understand how they may adapt to changing threats as the ice they depend on melts

When Rolf-Arne Ølberg i…

10 months ago

Temperatures at north pole 20C above average and beyond ice melting point

found 2025 › Feb › 04 (Tue) @ 17:50 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Scientists say unusually mild temperatures linked to low-pressure system over Iceland directing strong flow of warm air towards north pole

Temperatures at the north pole soared more than 20C above ave…

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