Tag: Spitsbergen
Norway: Shooting training to defend against polar bears: Researchers on Spitsbergen experience climate change up close
Shrinking hunting grounds and hunger drive polar bears to Ny-Ålesund on Svalbard. Researchers therefore have to complete mandatory shooting training to ward off predators. Shrinking hunting grounds and hunger drive…
Spitsbergen Photographs by Paolo Verzone: In Ice and Solitude
Almost at the height of the 80th degree of latitude are the few towns on Spitsbergen whose residents earned their living in coal mining for many years. Due to a…
Illustrated book “Spitzbergen” by Paolo Verzone: the review – journey
There are no natives on Spitsbergen, no ancestral people who would have settled the archipelago for centuries. People only settled on the archipelago, from the northern end of which it…