By Ole Arve Misund, Director of the Norwegian Polar Institute

There are few places in the world where climate change is more noticeable than in the Arctic, which is warming twice as quickly as the rest of the world. In Svalbard, winter temperatures have risen significantly more than on the mainland (ca. 3° C vs. ca. 1° C) since 1900.

By Leif Magne Helgesen, Priest and author

“And it came to pass in those days ...” says the Gospel of St. Luke. That may appear to be a minor detail in what is one of the world’s most widely read stories, but it is important to place the story in the context of world history. Rooted in time. In the past.

By Randi Nygård

What can laws and natural resource management tell us about our relationship with nature and our surroundings? The name of the art project “Wild Living Marine Resources Belong to Society as a Whole” comes from Section 2 of the Norwegian Marine Resources Act.