Chechen special forces instructors landed on Svalbard
Chechen special forces used Longyearbyen airport on Svalbard for transportation of personnel and equipment for an airborne drill close to
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Russian military instructors plan to land on Svalbard
Russian airborne forces are preparing exercises close to the North Pole. During the preparations instructors and dog teams plan to
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Ice-Blog: Time to cruise the Northwest Passage?
When I came across a story about a sold-out cruise through the North-West Passage planned for this summer on a
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Levels of methane increasing rapidly in the Arctic
The levels of the greenhouse gas methane are increasing more than expected at measuring stations both on Svalbard and in Southern
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Ice-Blog:: Arctic residents in hot water
At the swimming club last weekend, one of my fellow swimmers complained the water was too warm. She said she
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Ice-Blog:: Melting glacier risk to seabed ecosystem
On my first visit to the Arctic in 2007, I went out into the Kongsfjord at Ny Alesund, Spitsbergen, with
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Ice-blog: Arctic plastic “garbage patches”
There are a lot of things you might want to discover on a research cruise in the Arctic. Chunks of
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Finnair opens route to Norwegian Arctic
Will be the first airline to offer scheduled international flights to Longyearbyen in the Norwegian Arctic. Finnair’s direct route from
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UN Secretary-General to visit Norwegian Arctic
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit the the Arctic next week as part of a trip to Norway.
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Ice-Blog: A good haul for polar night team
The Polar Night cruise will come to an end on Tuesday, when the last of the scientists will leave the
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Ice-Blog: How adaptable are Arctic ecosystems?
The man in charge of this scientific cruise is Stig Falk-Petersen, Professor at the Arctic University of Norway in Tromso
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Ice-Blog: Locked up with deep-breathing krill
This morning started with a kind of international incident. My fellow Brit Carl Ballantyne and I were horrified to see
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Ice-Blog: Ice and mud, glorious mud
Most of the time our ship is out of range of internet connectivity, so this post will be delivered to
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Ice-Blog: Food and sex in Svalbard’s icy waters?
This is my first post from the Polar Marine Night expedition, from the Kongsfjord in Svalbard. On the flight from
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Ice-Blog: Snow delays? In Norway?
Norway is one place that generally has no problem with a bit of snow, but my flight from Oslo to
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