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WEBThirty years ago, glaciers and ice caps were seen as sterile, lifeless areas – white spaces on the map. Now the melting of the ice masses is accelerating, and recent research shows that they play an important role in the global carbon budget. Understanding that role is an urgent research task.
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Admiral Moiseev launches massive Ocean-2024 strategic exercise
WEB3 days ago — September 10, 2024. “The exercise will become one of the main events of operational and combat training of the Russian armed Forces in 2024,” says Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Aleksandr Moiseev. The announcement posted by the Ministry of Defense [unsafe link] on September 10 is the first official confirmation about the long ...
'Whaledimir' is dead | The Independent Barents Observer
WEBImage: Google Earth / The Barents Observer. Whaledimir made big headlines around the world and became a celebrity as he started to swim from fjord to fjord south along the coast of Norway. He even made it to the west coast of Sweden before he returned back to the southwest coast of Norway and the Stavanger area where he died on August 31.
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WEB3 days ago — Winter seasons will see 35 direct international flights to Rovaniemi and Tromsø.
"People in Kirkenes understand that these are new times"
WEB3 days ago — Kirkenes is not unfamiliar with emergency and crisis. During the 20th Century, it experienced war, refugee crisis and mass evacuation. Over the past decades, the border municipality has been on the alert for accidents and crisis in nearby Russia. Less than 100 km away are several of Russia’s nuclear submarine bases and the ageing Kola NPP is ...
Iron miner LKAB reports hostile incidents to police
WEB3 days ago — During nighttime to the 5th of September, a masked person apparently carrying a weapon made it into one of LKAB’s new mining areas in Kiruna, northern Sweden. There were people working on site, but none of them were injured, the company informs. Operations at the mine have been temporary halted and …
Olesia is new journalist in the Barents Observer
WEBAug 21, 2023 — Today, Olesia Krivtsova is employed as journalist in the Barents Observer. The Barents Observer. August 21, 2023. “I still feel a bit stressed, but at the same time I am very happy,” she says on her first day of employment in the north Norwegian newsroom. “Today, I published my first article, and it was very exciting.
Lavrov’s call for security consultations with Norway was followed …
WEBLavrov’s call for security consultations with Norway was followed by ...