With its huge pectoral fins this humpback whale appears to be flying underwater. #Svalbard

"Sommerens tining av permafrosten på Svalbard slår alle tidligere rekorder"

#climatechange #permafrost #svalbard

https://www.met.no/nyhetsarkiv/sommerens-tining-av-permafrosten-pa-svalbard-slar-alle-tidligere-rekorder

gawd, i hate living in norway!

greedy soulless Norwegian oilmen really want to drill the f*ck out of #Svalbard

#ClimateCrisis & weather havoc be damned, Norway continues to push for expanded #OilAndGas drilling, including in its far northern waters

#greed #Norway https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/climate-crisis/2023/08/norwegian-oilmen-lay-out-picture-svalbard

The #Svalbard #seaice area from the ice chart for 24th Aug 2023 is 206,889 sq km. This is 8,647 sq km below the 1991-2020 average. #Arctic

Can't let you see
What my love for you
Has done to me

Don't break the spell
I'll never tell
Why we won't drown
If we swim down

Go.
Fight.
I will heal you.

Wunderschönes, neues Lied von #Svalbard - How to swim down.

https://youtu.be/Cd5hh2BfsMM

#Longyearbyen #Svalbard #Spitsbergen #Painting #Watercolour

We have now finished our fieldwork in #svalbard and we look forward to processing all the new data and samples! We were very lucky with weather and collaborators, especially Tereza Mosočiová, Kim Senger,
#UNIS and the #CzechResearchStation

This year we have organised special fieldwork logistics in #Svalbard, using R/V Clione (expedition boat from #CzechArcticResearchStation) as base camp. Landing every day, return to boat every evening after long hike for safety and warmth. #Fieldwork #hamburg

A Great Skua launching from the ocean around #Svalbard

Parts of #Svalbard were coated with lichens. The reindeer must be happy. I think this is gray reindeer lichen.

I think these are Svalbard Poppies from, you guessed it, #Svalbard

Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea) soaring over the summer nesting grounds at Longyearbyen in Svalbard. The nesting terns allowed us to go a fair distance along the meadow trail before deciding we were not welcome and started diving at us. Sorry for the disturbance, angry birds!

Fun fact from AllAboutBirds: the oldest Arctic tern on record was at least 34 years old according to banding and recapture dates.

#BirdPhotography #Wildlife #Svalbard #nature #bird #Arctic

Purple Sandpiper (similar to the rock sandpipers of Alaska) inhabits rocky shore in winter but are usually on tundra while breeding. This one must be practicing for winter (its coming) #Svalbard

Black-legged Kittiwake on the prowl out in the ice. Easy to forget how much of an arctic bird kittiwakes can be. #Svalbard

Some of the boulders have big teeth. Walrus haul-out area on #Svalbard

Bearded seal catching some rays on a ice flow while keeping watch for polar bears. #Svalbard

Summer on the beach. A Common Eider pair catching some rays on a secluded #Svalbard beach.

Black Guillemot stare-down. I was kayaking and hoping to get close to some guillemots. Well they took the initiative and swam over to check me out. #Svalbard

Behold! New #Svalbard is coming! Pretty good band, the first glimpse to the new record is great!
Just waiting for it to be available on a EU-based reseller, I'm fed up with the crazy import taxes I have to pay for British records since Brexit

My favorite skua, the Pomarine Jaeger. I didn't see many in #Svalbard but that's where this one was.