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Svalbard

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

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9 days ago

Without US military support, we need a European defence union. Here’s what that looks like | Paul Taylor ⊕⊕

found 2026 › Feb › 18 (Wed) @ 05:27 UTC

a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The fledgling ‘coalition of the willing’ assembled for Ukraine could form the basis for an urgent European security response

After a year of Donald Trump’s second term and two Munich Security Confere…

29 days ago

Polar bears on Norwegian islands fatter and healthier despite ice loss, scientists say ○

found 2026 › Jan › 29 (Thu) @ 17:05 UTC

a story from BBC ✅ › BBC News

Scientists think that Svalbard bears have adapted to recent ice loss by eating more land-based prey.

6 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

7 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.

8 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.

9 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.

11 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.

12 months ago

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 …

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