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Environment Environment (Norway) Featured • Zone 3 

Warmest January in Norway’s northeast

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, February 3, 2023 at 08:25
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The Norwegian Meteorological Institute has a set of classifications when presenting climate statistics. For January, Northern Norway is marked “Warm”

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Russia summons Norwegian ambassador over drone pilots

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, November 28, 2022 at 11:39
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Robert Kvile, Oslo’s new ambassador to Moscow, was told Monday by Russia’s foreign ministry that charges against Russian citizens for

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Norwegian police detain son of close Putin ally for flying drone at Svalbard

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 15:48
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Police in Finnmark on Monday arrested 47-year-old Andrey Yakunin in Hammerfest, accused of flying a drone at Svalbard and possibly

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Environment Environment (Norway) Featured • Zone 3 

Extreme rain over Svalbard is caused by less sea-ice

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, October 3, 2022 at 09:31
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The occurrence of extreme precipitation over Svalbard seen over the last four decades is linked with declining sea-ice in the

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Norway) Featured • Zone 3 General News Norway 

German icebreaker back from research trip to better understand Arctic ice

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 15:21
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Scientists on the German icebreaker Polarstern returned from a seven-week research trip this month, before the boat heads to the

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 2 General Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Russia warns of rocket splashdown north of Svalbard

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, August 8, 2022 at 16:02 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at 09:43
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Watch out on August 9th as Russia is to launch a cluster of satellites, including one for Iran aimed to

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Norway Society Society (Norway) 

Polar bear shot dead in Svalbard after attacking tourist

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, August 8, 2022 at 12:12
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A French woman is hospitalised after attacked by a polar bear at Svalbard Monday morning. “The Governor was alarmed just

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Environment Environment (Norway) Featured • Zone 3 General News Newsroom Picks • zone 2 Norway 

Scientists head to Svalbard to count animals for Walrus from Space project

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 16:03 — Last Updated: Friday, July 15, 2022 at 08:08
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A group of international scientists is headed to the Norwegian Arctic this week to do the first onsite walrus count

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* Featured * Business Business (Norway) Featured • Zone 3 General News Norway 

Norwegian transporters bring goods to Russian coal-miners

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, July 7, 2022 at 09:14
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Dilemma solved: Two containers with food supplies that were stopped on the land border to Norway are now underway towards

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Warmest June ever at Svalbard

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, July 4, 2022 at 09:38
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Average temperature at Svalbard airport Longyearbyen was 6,0°C, which is 2,4°C above average for June and the warmest ever recorded.

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German icebreaker leaves for Arctic ice research trip

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Friday, July 1, 2022 at 09:29
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German icebreaker Polarstern left for a seven-week research trip on Tuesday were scientists will focus on ice and glaciers. June

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * General Newsroom Picks • zone 2 Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Russian legislators question Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 at 12:08
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Norway is violating the Svalbard Treaty from 1920, says Deputy Speaker in the Russian Federation Council Konstantin Kosachev following the

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Denmark/Greenland Environment (Denmark/Greenland) Featured • Zone 2 Science 

Researchers identify polar bear population that hunts off glacier ice

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, June 17, 2022 at 16:00
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A genetically distinct polar bear population that hunts off freshwater ice has been identified in Greenland, researchers outline in a

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* Featured * Countries Environment Environment (Norway) Featured • Zone 3 General Norway 

Warm spring day posted in Svalbard, Norway

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, June 2, 2022 at 08:27
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May 28 came with more heat than any day last year at the airport in Longyearbyen, the world’s northernmost with

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New rare varieties added to Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Mathiew Leiser, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Monday, February 14, 2022 at 18:56
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Deep within Svalbard’s permafrost, 10 gene banks from around the world are set to deposit their seeds into the Global

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