Mysterious purple powder scares in Svalbard The waste plant in Longyearbyen is closed, and a mysterious substance has been sent in for analysis The waste plant in Longyearbyen is closed, and a mysterious substance has been sent in for analysis “The powder is very volatile, it has gone everywhere and turns purple when sprayed with [...]
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 Northern Norway will be hit by its first snowstorm of the season this weekend. While the autumn weather continues in the south, the Northerners will have a taste of winter this weekend. “It is beginning to to be winter. Precipitation is white all the way down to the lowlands on both Saturday and Sunday [...]  Norwegian paleontologist Dr. Jørn Hurum is awarded the National Geographic “Emerging Explorers Award” in Washington D.C. due to his excavations on Svalbard. “We search for fossils in the high Arctic, moving hundreds of tons of rock by hand in wet, freezing conditions. It’s fantastic.” Dr. Hurum explained to National Geographic. Dr. Hurum is [...]  Norwegian palaeontologist Jørn Hurum has been awarded the National Geographic Society’s Emerging Explorers prize for his important finds of prehistoric giant sea reptiles on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Hurum is chief palaeontologist at the University of Oslo’s Natural History Museum and is the first Norwegian to receive this prize. The $10,000 prize [...]  A few weeks ago, I once again had the privilege of visiting Svalbard. Located halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, the archipelago of Svalbard features the most northerly town in the world with more than 1,000 inhabitants. It’s named Longyearbyen and located on the western coast of Spitsbergen, the largest island of [...]  Audited figures for 2009 show a considerable strengthening of the municipalities’ finances compared to 2008. Net operating surplus for the municipalities is estimated at 2.7 percent in 2009. The municipalities’ gross operating surplus in 2009 was about NOK 3.3 billion. The figures show that the municipalities’ gross operating revenue was [...] Forest fires and straw and stubble burning in North America and Eastern Europe are leading to record-high concentrations of the environmental toxin PCB over Svalbard. As a result of climate change, airborne pollution is thus becoming an increasing problem in the Arctic. For the last decades, persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have been [...]  Svalbard has a high level of in- and out-migration, markedly influencing the size of the population. On Jan. 1 2010, 2,481 were registered at Svalbard, 84 fewer than one year earlier. A total of 2,052 of these lived in the Norwegian settlements Longyearbyen and Ny-Ålesund. During 2009, the number of inhabitants in the Norwegian settlements [...]  A fossil find suggests that polar bears may only have come into existence during an ice age 150,000 years ago as part of the brown bears’ battle for survival against climate change. To read the rest of the article, click here. Source: Daily [...] |
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