Summary: 2023: a demanding year for Svalbard’s tourism industry | Svalbard reindeer prosper | Svalbard’s sporting frontier: from ice to the pitch | An exceptionally warm summer brings cloudberry to Svalbard | Svalbard Global Seed Vault | Raising children in the world’s northernmost town | The impact of the war on Svalbard | Norway’s last coal mine on Svalbard open until 2025 | Pyramiden: one of the last Soviet outposts in the Arctic | Svalbardposten | ‘This matters podcast’: the cold truth about the fastest warming place on Earth (Svalbard)
2023: a demanding year for Svalbard’s tourism industry
Svalbard‘s tourism is putting a challenging year behind it, with declining visitor numbers, unclear regulatory processes, the climate crisis and a war that is also affecting the Arctic
Concern about the situation of Santa‘s favorite sleigh pullers is growing as the Arctic warms, but reindeer prosper in Svalbard
Svalbard’s sporting frontier: from ice to the pitch
Despite the challenges posed by the Arctic climate, sports have found a place in Svalbard
An exceptionally warm summer brings cloudberry to Svalbard
July 2023 became the warmest ever at the Svalbard archipelago, with an average temperature above 10° Celsius
The world’s largest secure seed storage (almost 1 million seed samples) can be found in the permafrost close to Longyearbyen
Raising children in the world’s northernmost town
What is it like to raise a family on a small remote island in the arctic?
The impact of the war on Svalbard
The Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens to seriously damage the balance established in this remote area over the last century
Norway’s last coal mine on Svalbard open until 2025
The energy crisis leads European countries to extend the life of polluting technologies
Pyramiden: one of the last Soviet outposts in the Arctic
Founded by Sweden in 1910 and sold to the Soviet Union in 1927, Pyramiden is on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard
Founded in 1948, Svalbardposten is a Norwegian weekly paper and online newspaper that operates from Longyearbyen
‘This matters podcast’: the cold truth about the fastest warming place on Earth (Svalbard)
Svalbard serves as a stark warning to the rest of the world: Lex Harvey takes his listeners on a tour and a wake-up call
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