Whale watching tours are a well-established form of tourism along the coast of northern Norway. With small ships (and meanwhile other watercrafts) tourists are brought into the fjords. There they have the opportunity to observe the intelligent and social animals...
Fisheries in the Barents Sea are very heavily controlled by the Russian and Norwegian governments. There are contracts for quotas and cross-border cooperation in the region. But now Norway is in trouble with the EU over fishing quotas and the Russian state is...
Almost like poking in the fog: Expedition tour operators to the Arctic have been surprised by the length of the ban, especially in Canada. Even if the government offers a straw by promising a continuous reassessment of the situation, planning the Arctic season in this...
Just opposite the main town of Longyearbyen lies the Austre Adventfjord. This area had been bought by the Norwegian state in 2017 so that the owner would not sell it to foreign nations. But the state failed to secure resource extraction rights as well. Picture:...
The NorSat-3 microsatellite will be launched into space with a radar warning system during 2020. The satellite was developed at the Norwegian Defence Research Facility. (Photo: UTIAS/SFL) Norway is working with the United States to develop satellites to survey...
