Tag: Svalbard
Polar bears return to an Arctic island
A man from Stavanger who's working at a remote meteorology station on an island east of Svalbard encountered no less than 14 polar bears...
Norway hosts ‘Seed Vault Summit’
It's been 10 years since Norway opened the global seed vault on Svalbard. Agriculture Minister Jon Georg Dale has invited seed depositors and partners...
Svalbard residents evacuated again
Extreme weather bearing down on Svalbard this week forced the evacuations Tuesday of around 180 residents on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen. Strong winds...
Repairs ordered for seed vault entrance
Climate change has been creating challenges for the area leading into the world's so-called "doomsday vault" for seed storage on Svalbard. Now the Norwegian...
End of an era on Norway’s Svalbard
The Arctic territory of Svalbard has long been administered by Norway, with coal mining as it major source of income. Now Norway's government has...
Helicopter wreckage set to be retrieved
A remote-controlled submarine sent to Svalbard by the Norwegian military has located the wreckage of a Russian helicopter that crashed into the sea off...
Search widened for missing helicopter
UPDATED: The search continued on Friday for a Russian MI-8 helicopter with eight people on board that crashed into the sea just off Svalbard's...
Norway strikes new climate pact, with NASA
Last week Norway signed a climate pact with the state of California, to help it electrify driving. Now Norway has signed a new deal...
Svalbard coal firm needs new bailout
Store Norske, the coal company that once dominated economic activity on Norway's Arctic island group of Svalbard, claims that it's once again teetering on the verge of...
Svalbard tackles ‘housing crisis’
Bulldozers rumbled onto the sites of abandoned housing in Norway's Arctic city of Longyearbyen on Svalbard over the weekend. The homes were badly damaged in...
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