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Norway gives Arctic foxes a helping hand amid climate woes

March 3, 2024601 Views

One by one, the crate doors swing open and five Arctic foxes bound off into the snowy landscape. In the wilds of southern Norway, the newly freed foxes could struggle to find enough to eat, as the impacts of climate change make the foxes’ traditional rodent prey more scarce. In Hardangervidda National Park, where the foxes have been released, there hasn’t been a good lemming year since 2021, scientists say. That’s why the scientists breeding them in captivity are also maintaining more than 30 feeding stations across the alpine wilderness stocked with dog food kibble – a rare and controversial step in conservation circles. Two white Arctic foxes play after mating, inside their enclosure at the station near Oppdal, Norway, March 21, 2023. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner “If the food is ...

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Spellbinding polar night gets darker in warming Arctic

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

January 28, 2023937 Views

At 10:40 a.m. on a day in January, two powerful beams of light from the Svalbard governor’s boat pierced the complete darkness of the mountain-fringed fjord it was sailing. It was carrying the children’s choir from this remote village’s church to visit an even more isolated Arctic outpost. Spotlights from the governor's boat light the horizon during a journey from Longyearbyen to Barentsburg, Norway, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. It was carrying the children's choir from Longyearbyen's only church, Svalbard Kirke, to visit the even more isolated Arctic outpost of Barentsburg, which is run by a Russian mining company. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole) That’s polar night in this Norwegian archipelago – so close to the North Pole the sun is at least six degrees below the horizon from mid-November throu...

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Norway archaeologists find ‘world’s oldest runestone’

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January 17, 2023795 Views

Archaeologists in Norway said Tuesday that have found a runestone which they claim is the world’s oldest, saying the inscriptions are up to 2,000 years old and date back to the earliest days of the enigmatic history of runic writing. The flat, square block of brownish sandstone has carved scribbles, which may be the earliest example of words recorded in writing in Scandinavia, the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo said. It said it was “among the oldest runic inscriptions ever found” and “the oldest datable runestone in the world.” The runestone found at Tyrifjorden, Norway, is shown at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. (Javad Parsa/NTB Scanpix via AP) “This find will give us a lot of knowledge about the use of runes in the early Iron Age. This may ...

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As climate clock ticks, aviator races to photograph glaciers

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December 24, 2022673 Views

Chunks of ice float in milky blue waters. Clouds drift and hide imposing mountaintops. The closer you descend to the surface, the more the water roars — and the louder the “CRACK” of ice, as pieces fall from the arm of Europe’s largest glacier. The landscape is vast, elemental, seemingly far beyond human scale. The whole world, it seems, lies sprawled out before you. Against this outsized backdrop, the plane carrying the man who chases glaciers seems almost like a toy. Garrett Fisher, an American aviator and adventurer, looks out the window of his plane while on a mission to photograph glaciers in Norway, on July 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen) “No one’s there,” the man marvels. “The air is virtually empty.” This is Garrett Fisher’s playground — and, you quickly realize, his...

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Millennium-old Viking ships shored up for Oslo move

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November 17, 2022216 Views

At Oslo's Viking Ship museum, a team of engineers has begun work to ensure a new home being built nextdoor does not prove fatal for three vessels that have survived for a millennium or more. The new building is necessary to protect the wooden ships, two of which date from the ninth century and the third from the tenth century, which are at the mercy of temperature changes and humidity in the current museum. The Oseberg ship is seen inside The Viking Ship Museum, in Oslo, Norway September 12, 2022. REUTERS/Victoria Klesty But the vibrations caused by construction are also a threat to ships so fragile their weight alone is enough to cause them to crumble. The engineers are building steel girders around them to protect them during the upheaval. "If we keep displaying them as they...

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Norway to close its last Arctic coal mine in 2023

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September 30, 20211550 Views

Norway’s state-owned coal company will close its last mine in the Arctic Svalbard archipelago in 2023, it said on Thursday, causing the loss of 80 jobs and ending 120 years of exploitation. While Store Norske Spitsbergen Kullkompani (SNSK) has shut its major mines in the islands over the past two decades, it had kept the smaller Mine 7 open, primarily to ensure supplies to a local coal-fired power plant, as well as some exports. FILE PHOTO: Low clouds are seen in the Kings Bay of Ny-Alesund, Svalbard, Norway, October 12, 2015. REUTERS/Anna Filipova The Arctic islands are warming faster than almost anywhere on Earth, highlighting the risks to fragile ecosystems from climate change, and Norway aims to cut its overall emissions, although it also remains a major oil and gas producer....

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उल्कापात से चमका आकाश, आखिर कहां गिरा उल्कापिंड

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July 26, 20211351 Views

रविवार को आकाश एक असामान्य रूप से बड़ी उल्का के कारण चमक उठा और कई लोगों ने इस शानदार कुदरती साउंड एंड लाइट शो को देखा और महसूस किया। यह घटना हुई दक्षिणी नॉर्वे में जब लोगों को आसमान में बड़ी तेज गरज सुनाई दी। विशेषज्ञों का कहना है कि यह उल्कापात था और इस उल्का का कोई हिस्सा जरूर धरती पर गिरा होगा, वह भी नॉर्वे की राजधानी ओस्लो से कोई बहुत ज्यादा दूर नहीं। A meteor lights up the sky over Holmestrand, Norway July 25, 2021, in this picture obtained from a social media video. HOLMESTRAND UTVIKLING AS via REUTERS हालांकि भी तक किसी नुकसान की कहीं से कोई खबर नहीं है। इस उल्कापात की चमक दिखाई देने की खबरें रात 1 बजे से आनी शुरू हो गई थीं और बताया जाता है कि यह नजारा सुदूर उत्तर में ट्रोंडेहेम तक दिखाई दिया। ओस्लो के दक्षिण में होमस्ट्रैंड में लगे एक वेब कैमरे ने आकाश से गिरती एक आग ...

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The art of Ajanta Caves is being digitised and restored for eternity

UPENDRA SWAMI

November 1, 20202300 Views2

Ajanta Caves were painted for over 900 years by some of the greatest unknown artists of mankind. They are not only a UNESCO World Heritage site, but also probably the greatest art in the world. But these paintings have seen deterioration over the last 2000 years. Now, if they can be restored to their original glory and then preserved for eternity, its a service not only to the culture of India, but to human species and its greatness. On the 21st of October, preservation of the art of the Ajanta Caves was initiated at the Arctic World Archives, in an indestructible format, till eternity. Event happened at Svalbard, a remote island in Norway. And, the ceremony was attended by representatives from The National Museum of Norway, UNICEF Norway, the Norwegian Defense Museum, and the Mjøndale...

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होटल है या कोई उड़न तश्तरी

SAIED SHEIKH

October 2, 20201210 Views

नॉर्वे में किसी उड़न तश्तरी से प्रेरित यह होटल ऑरोरा बोरेअलिस देखने के लिए एक दूसरी दुनिया सरीखा माहौल खड़ा करता है उड़न तश्तरियां हमेशा से हमारी विज्ञान फंतासियों का अहम केंद्र रही हैं। फिल्मों, कहानियों में उड़न तश्तरियों को देखकर हम बचपन में कितने रोमांचित होते रहे हैं। मन करता रहा है न कि कहीं किसी खुले मैदान में अचानक आसमान से कोई उड़न तश्तरी उतर पड़े और कोई दूसरे ग्रह का प्राणी अचानक हमारे सामने आ खड़ा हो हाथ मिलाने लगे। उड़न तश्तरी और दूसरे ग्रह पर जीवन हमेशा से हमारे वैज्ञानिकों के लिए अंतरिक्ष की खोज के सबसे जटिल पहलुओं में से रहा है। ऐसे में कितना रोमांचक हो कि आप किसी ऐसे होटल में रुकें जो उड़न तश्तरी की शक्ल का हो। जहां इतना वीराना हो कि उड़न तश्तरी के सामने आ उतरने की कल्पना साकार होने का खयाल हमेशा तैरता रहे। वहां के कमरे किसी स्पा सरीखे हों और सामने बर्फीले...