A team of five from Taiwan together with Polish scientists opened the new station “TaiArctic” in Longyearbyen. Photo: National Academy of Marine Research Since June 25, 2022, the Taiwanese flag is also flying in Longyearbyen on Spitsbergen: The island...
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...
Map: GoogleEarth This Tuesday morning, the expedition cruise ship M/S Virgo ran aground in Fuglefjorden in northwest Spitsbergen. There are no injuries, but fuel is leaking. According to Norwegian news platform NRK, the accident damaged one of the ship’s tanks...
PhD students Sanna Piilo and Teemu Juselius, under the supervision of Minna Väliranta, investigated the soil at various sites on Spitsbergen and found an organic layer (dark), consisting mainly of moss remains, above mineral soil (gray layer) at all sampling sites....
Thanks to a hunting ban, walrus populations on Svalbard have recovered and now count high populations. (Photo: Heiner Kubny) Walruses were once abundant in the Svalbard archipelago, but 350 years of unchecked hunting brought them to the brink of extinction. Walruses...