The Points Guyadded this to NewsNorth Pole Here’s how much it costs to stay in the world’s most expensive hotel roomsthepointsguy.com - Liz Hund This past week, Luxury Action, a travel company that specializes in luxury travel in the Nordic and Arctic regions, announced that it would be …
EElise Moyeradded this to NewsOceans Deep sea explorer sets a record by visiting the deepest spots in all 5 oceans.The Washington Post - By Yasemin SaplakogluHidden beneath the Fram Strait, a passage that separates Greenland and Svalbard, Norway, lies the deepest point in the Arctic Ocean, where the seafloor plunges about 18,209 feet. And now, American explorer
Mally Scutchingsadded this to LuxuryNorth Pole The £85,000 glamping experience set to launch at the NORTH POLEdailymail.co.uk - By Jennifer Newton for MailOnline Glamping is set to arrive in the North Pole thanks to an extraordinary luxury pop-up experience that's launching next year. It's the world's most …
The Independentadded this to Arts & EntertainmentEntertainment (UK) In photos: Climate change takes hold in fastest-warming town on the planetindependent.co.uk - Hannah McKay Icebergs float like doomed islands past the small boat as it makes its way through a fjord filled with the slush of a melting glacier. Occasionally, …
KKathleen Reedadded this to Nature & ScienceGlaciers Climate change: Arctic glaciers 'shrinking by 300m each year'BBC News - Kenneth MacdonaldGlaciers in the Arctic are shrinking by as much as 300m a year, a Scottish-based research team has found. The researchers from the Scottish Association for Marine Science near Oban used robot submarines
National GeographicNorway Happy Bear Photo by Jim Guerard — National Geographic Your ShotNational Geographic - yourshot.nationalgeographic.com
TTigadded this to My Most LikedLifestyle (India) With global warming, doomsday may be around-the-corner. These bunkers could ensure your survivalarchitecturaldigest.in - Tarini Sood “You can never be too prepared”, or can you? A group of people known as the “Preppers” go by the premise that an impending apocalypse means you can …
The Arctic The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of September 2,...thearcticinstitute.org - Liubov Timonina On September 4, US Vice President Mike Pence paid an official visit to Iceland. In the announcement of the White House, his visit is supposed to …
Daily Mirroradded this to ParentingUK News UK's most extreme mum has full body tattoo and takes daughter, 7, off road bikingmirror.co.uk - Jane Lavender Stephanie Bolam and her daughter Lola live on a boat on the Thames in London and also love climbing Stephanie Bolam admits she often raises eyebrows …
SSteph B.added this to Save EarthNorway 'We are losing the Arctic as we know it'rte.ie - RTÉ News The Wahlenberg glacier in Norway's Svalbard archipelago is calving icebergs at an increasing rate because of warming ocean waters, according to the …
Norway How a warming climate is changing Svalbard at an unprecedented rate - Arctic Todayarctictoday.com - www.arctictoday.com
Hakai Magazineadded this to HurricanesFlorida A Panic Room for Corals | Hakai Magazinehakaimagazine.com - Hakai Magazine In a laboratory on a narrow patch of land in the Florida Keys, marine biologists were collecting tiny fragments of living corals and storing them in …
Norway Russia showing renewed interest in Svalbard's oil potentialrcinet.ca - Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer The well Grumantskaya-1 in Svalbard proved little or no oil and gas resources and was soon abandoned by Soviet authorities. Half a century later, …
AcquireNorse Norse Projects brings the heft and heritage of Harris Tweed to its outerwear rangeacquiremag.com Norse Projects has made its way to the Outer Hebrides to enlist the help of Harris Tweed to bring their classic fabric to their outerwear line. …
RReuters Wider ImagePhotos A climate-change frontier in the world's northernmost town by Hannah McKayReuters Wider Image - Hannah McKayThe spectre of climate change looms large over Audun Salte's dog farm. The Norwegian owns Svalbard Husky with his wife, Mia. When the dogs in the yard see Salte, they excitedly jump up, hoping to go out
BBils DaBayadded this to FoodForThoughtGlaciers Those who come after us will either curse us -- or thank us (opinion) - CNNCNNEditor's Note:Carl Safina's most recent book is "Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel." A MacArthur Fellow, he holds the Endowed Chair for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University and is founder
The Scotsmanadded this to Top StoriesBirds Climate change causing migrating birds to change flight path, study findsscotsman.com - Ilona Amos Climate change is causing wild birds to shift their migration routes, new international research has found. A team of scientists from the University …
Flickering Mythadded this to Flickering MythFilm (UK) His Dark Materials TV series finds its Iorek Byrnison and dæmon voice castflickeringmyth.com - Gary Collinson The BBC and HBO’s hotly-anticipated TV adaptation of Philip Pullman’s beloved fantasy series His Dark Materials has announced its animal voice cast, …
Science Early start of 20th century arctic sea ice declinephys.org - Geological Society of America Boulder, Colo., USA: Arctic sea-ice has decreased rapidly during the last decades in concert with substantial global surface warming. Both have …
Methane Changes in ice volume control seabed methane emissionsphys.org - Gudmund Løvø Ice sheet dynamics of the past likely caused fault movements in the Earth's crust, resulting in seabed methane release in ~1200 m water depth …
Professor Futon Spooninadded this to These Are A Few Of Our Favorite ThingsThe Arctic A tale of two bears in a changing Arcticarcticwwf.org This winter temperatures in Svalbard soared above freezing several times. The north coast, usually surrounded with ice during the long Arctic winter, …
New Statesmanadded this to New StatesmanOpinion How the global battle for the Arctic became the new Cold Warnewstatesman.com - Anonymous China has labelled itself a “near-Arctic state”; Norway, Denmark and Canada have all claimed ownership over the North Pole, while Russia has put in …
Olivieradded this to MetalHeavy Metal On the Hot Topic of Pornogrind... | MetalSucksmetalsucks.net - Serena Cherry Serena Cherry is the guitarist of British metal/post-hardcore band Svalbard. Follow Serena on Twitter and Svalbard on Facebook. It’s Christmas. Your …
Mario Zocchiadded this to ArcticGreenland Trump's interest in Greenland is a wakeup call about Arctic influencethehill.com - Ryan P. Burke, opinion contributor The next cold war with Russia may be a literal vice metaphorical one. So before we dismiss President Trump’s interest in purchasing Greenland, we …
NBC NewsNorway How climate change is endangering Norway's Global Seed VaultNBC News - NBCNews.comSvalbard, a northern island halfway between Norway and the North Pole, stores seeds from all over the world in case of a global catastrophe. NBC News’ Kevin Tibbles traveled there and speaks to local Stephen
Greenland Greenland Is the Center of the Worldforeignpolicy.com - Laurie Garrett NUUK, Greenland—U.S. President Donald Trump’s open interest in purchasing Greenland was almost universally acknowledged as undiplomatic and “absurd,” …
The Arctic High Arctic Salvage Operation for Grounded Trawler Resumesmaritime-executive.com - By The Maritime Executive 2019-08-23 21:01:14 After a long delay due to ice conditions, work to remove the grounded fishing vessel Northguider from a remote shore in Svalbard has resumed. On …
World News Carl Bildt: Donald Trump's Denmark saga of the absurdnzherald.co.nz - Carl Bildt First you get yourself invited to a state visit in a friendly allied country. Not just a visit of the usual sort: a state visit with a banquet by the …
Nashville, TN A Crew of Distinguished Nashvillians, the Norwegian Sea and a Daring Arctic Rescuenashvillescene.com - www.nashvillescene.com Like in many places on the edges of the earth, the normal rules don’t apply in Svalbard. Activists on both sides of the immigration debate could …
Geese Conflicting consequences of climate change for Arctic nesting geesephys.org - Norwegian University of Science and Technology Life over the last half-century has been pretty good for populations of Svalbard barnacle geese. A hunting ban implemented in the 1950s in their …
