First day in-and-out of the sea ice
Cracking ice pushed aside by the Lance, wakeup call at 5:00. We are entering Smeerenburgfjord, named after the Dutch settlement Smeerenburg (blubber town), the largest 17th century Dutch whaling station on Svalbard.
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Setting off for Svalbard
A Norwegian Polar Institute and WWF-Canon scientific expedition sets off tomorrow to collect critical data about Europe’s most westerly polar bear population.
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Svalbard bear update – N26135
Kara, aka N26135, was tagged in Svalbard in spring. During the summer and autumn months, she performed a record long journey from Svalbard past Franz Josef Land in Russia and all the way to Severnaya Zemlja.
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The Arctic by ship – what we learned about change
The past two summers have allowed us to learn a lot about how the Arctic is changing, both from our own observations and by talking with the locals in northern communities.
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We can’t clean up one Arctic oil spill, let alone hundreds
WWF’s Alexander Shestakov argues that the technology simply does not exist to ensure safe development in the Arctic, in this new documentary from Danish broadcaster DR.
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