Everybody is talking about climate change in the arctic, but what is actually going on? The Norwegian Polar Institute, through its MOSJ-project (environmental monitoring of Svalbard and Jan Mayen), has gathered a range of data that make it quite clear that accelerating climate change is a measurable fact: the temperature has a tendency to increase during most of the 20th century, with a marked and still increasing acceleration in recent years. Precipitation is following, although the trend is less pronounced and clear here.
The sea ice has decreased by 35-40 % (area; referring to maximum distribution in April) from 1979 to 2009, and it is getting thinner: from 1.20 meters (1966) to 0,80 meters (2006) around Hopen island. Temperatures at the top level of the permafrost are by now increasing as fast as 1°C per decade, and glaciers around Ny Ålesund have lost 15 meters of average thickness, also here with a strongly accelerating tendency in recent years.
Polar bear in open drift ice: symbol of climate change
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Norwegens arktischer Norden (1): Spitzbergen
Photobook: Norway's arctic islands. The text in this book is German. [shop url="https://shop.spitzbergen.de/en/polar-books/70-norwegens-arktischer-norden-1-aerial-arctic-9783937903262.html"] ← Back
Lofoten, Jan Mayen and Spitsbergen from the air - Photobook: Norway's arctic islands. The text in this book is German, but there is very little text, so I am sure that you will enjoy it regardless which languages you read (or not).
The companion book for the Svalbardhytter poster. The poster visualises the diversity of Spitsbergen‘s huts and their stories in a range of Arctic landscapes. The book tells the stories of the huts in three languages.
Comprehensive guidebook about Spitsbergen. Background (wildlife, plants, geology, history etc.), practical information including travelling seasons, how to travel, description of settlements, routes and regions.
Join an exciting journey with dog, skis and tent through the wintery wastes of East Greenland! We were five guys and a dog when we started in Ittoqqortoormiit, the northernmost one of two settlements on Greenland’s east coast.
12 postcards which come in a beautifully designed tray. Beautiful images from South Georgia across Antarctica from the Antarctic Peninsula to the Ross Sea and up to Macquarie Island and Campbell Island.