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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 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 [...] 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 [...]  Svalbard Global Seed Vault has received a major seed shipment while world leaders are gathered to tackle climate change in Copenhagen. On Sunday Dec. 13, more than 50,000 seed samples landed in Longyearbyen to find their place in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The shipment contains seeds from crops adapted to dry climates. Among [...]  Svalbard’s coal mining company, Store Norske, will reduce its workforce by 90 employees, reports the Barents Observer. Due to the financial crises the coal prizes fall from USD 175 last autumn to USD 53 at its lowest the first half year 2009, and is no around USD 70 per ton, reports Svalbardposten. The state-owned [...] |
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