This glaucous gull suffered from bird flu. Never before has the virus been detected so far north. (Photo: Governor of Svalbard) Bird flu has been detected on Svalbard for the first time. According to Knut Madslien, head of the Wildlife Health Department at the...
Diese Eismöwe hatte die Vogelgrippe. Noch nie zuvor wurde das Virus so weit im Norden nachgewiesen. (Foto: Governor of Svalbard) Auf Spitzbergen wurde erstmals die Vogelgrippe nachgewiesen. Laut Knut Madslien, Leiter der Abteilung Wildtiergesundheit am norwegischen...
It took Norwegian Robert Johansen five and a half years to obtain a licence to brew beer on Spitsbergen. (Photo: Svalbard Bryggeri) The Svalbard archipelago is an Arctic wilderness and lies pretty much halfway between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole. Despite...
At the hospital, the first resident of Longyearbyen tested positive for the COVID virus. Picture: Michael Wenger COVID is still in control of the world. Despite vaccination campaigns and measures, basically all parts of the world report ever-increasing numbers of...
Gruve 7 outside Longyearbyen, is the last coal mine still in operation in Norway. (Photo: Marcel Schütz, Longyearbyen) Coal production on Svalbard will cease in 2023. Gruve 7 is the last mine of Norway’s state-owned coal company still producing coal. This is...