Polar Bear

The remains of a giant meat-eating sea monster that patrolled the oceans during the reign of the dinosaurs have been unearthed on an island in the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Norwegian fossil hunters recovered the rear half of the formidable reptile’s skull in south-west Spitsbergen in what has been described as one of the

How much dursban have you used to kill termites at your home in Longyearbyen? How much methyl parathion has been used to kill boll weevils on cotton plants in Ny-Ålesund? And how much endosulfan has been used to kill insects in apple orchards in Svea? While all of these questions are silly, the reality is

15 november 2009: the Spitsbergen Airship Museum, the museum in Longyearbyen dedicated to the polar explorations, is now one year old. In total we have had 3 600 individual visitors. We consider this quite good considering 2009 has been our first year. […] Because of Hallvard Stangeland’s work we know that the majority of the

CO2 can be stored on Svalbard, researchers conclude after finding a storage site 1,000 meters below the permafrost. This is the first time someone has looked into whether CO2 can be stored below the surface on the mainland. Read the article on Offshore247.

Svalbard Reindeer. View more presentations from quercuscymru.