Longyearbyen is the largest town on Spitsbergen and has a modern infrastructure. However, there is no sewage treatment plant in the municipality. The infrastructure of cities and communities in the Arctic is often not comparable to that in temperate and industrialized...
The lack of tourists has caused great difficulties for many businesses in Longyearbyen. Financial aid from Oslo came late and now the distribution of the funds, or rather their criteria, is causing a heated debate. Image: Christian Bruttel The government’s...
Several avalanches around Longyearbyen have been recorded in the past few days. Also near Barentsburg a big avalanche went off (above) and had just missed people who had been on the road. Meanwhile, some snowmobile trails are closed. Photo: Sysselmannen In Central...
The book “Meine Welt schmilzt – Wie der Klimawandel mein Dorf verwandelt” (English: My world melts – How climate change transforms my village) by Line Nagell Ylvisäker is an eyewitness account of how climate change has gripped Norway’s...
Everyone who has been to Longyearbyen knows this picture: The statue of the miner and Svalbardbutikken, Longyearbyen’s biggest (and only) supermarket. The latter gets a facelift as a belated birthday gift. Photo: Julia Hager Living on Svalbard has advantages and...