Svalbard in a sentence

Barentsburg, on the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, is a Russian coal-mining town of about 500 people.

Derocher says that the effects of global heating are currently “somewhat mediated” in Svalbard by the interaction between sea-ice loss and the loss of ice over the continental shelf.

The team in Svalbard will work for three weeks in temperatures as low as minus 25C (-13 Farenheit), cutting and pulling out a series of cylinders of ice 10cm (four inches) wide.

This content was published on Sep 9, 2022This week, our bloggers look at some vegetation hotspots on Svalbard under bird nesting areas concentrated in steep cliffs.

Using these calculations, Landrø's team identified Tropical Storm Eduardo, which was 4100 km from Svalbard in the Gulf of Mexico.

Cameras are still rolling on James Gunn's in Svalbard, Norway (as far as we know), but star David Corenswet has taken a break from filming to shoot an advert in Mexico, and some behind-the-scenes photos have been shared online.

While no suspects have been named, Svalbard has been the between Russia and Norway.

Meanwhile, in Longyearbyen, a small town on the northern Norwegian island of Svalbard, it hit 71.1 degrees Fahrenheit (21.7 degrees Celsius) on Saturday.

Personally, I just want to know how much it costs to build a bunker in Svalbard, and how much R&D and invest the company made into this allegedly apocalypse-proof bunker just for the sake of a PR stunt.

Since Fitzpatrick started Holy Roar back in 2006, the label has released music by the likes of Gallows, Make Do and Mend, Svalbard, This Is Hell, Touche Amore, Brutality Will Prevail, Dananananakroyd and more.

The deposit will feature over 60,000 seed samples from 36 different groups — the most to send their seeds to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault at one time.

At the other end of the spectrum, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Andorra and Svalbard all achieved the highest safety marking for all three criteria.

Firmly surrounded by ice, the ship will then drift with the maelstrom first toward the North Pole then westward, before being released by the ice next summer in the Fram Strait, somewhere between Greenland and Svalbard.

The Arc was designed for exploring the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and Arctic World Archive.

They looked for microplastics trapped in snow from the Alps, sea ice from the Arctic Ocean, and snow from the High Arctic island of Svalbard.

While we can’t know for sure, geographically speaking, we should expect Svalbard to fall under Moscow’s control in a time of Arctic conflict.

Hunting of whales and walruses and seals reflect the history of Svalbard as the group of islands which comprise the archipelago were first used as a whaling base in the 17th and 18th centuries.

That is a legacy of its status: although part of Norway, it is governed by an international treaty signed in 1920 that gives citizens and companies from treaty nations the same right of access to and residence in Svalbard.

The Estonian onion potato, black-eyed peas, Bambara groundnuts, and Hunter barley used to brew Irish beer are among the 70,000 deposits made today at Svalbard.

The Svalbard archipelago is located in the Arctic Ocean, halfway between Norway and the North Pole.