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Trash on Arctic beach: Coastal pollution along Calypsostranda, Bellsund, Svalbard [PDF]
Polish Polar Research, 2018 Beach pollution is one of the most common hazards in present-day anthropogenic environments. Even in the remote Svalbard Archipelago, pollution impacts the beach system and can pose environmental threats.
Marek Wojciech Jaskólski +4 more
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Boreas, EarlyView.Ice sheets and glaciers globally are losing mass at increasing rates, with the strongest changes occurring at tidewater glaciers. These are rapidly retreating and often transitioning to land‐terminating with implications for sea level change and ecosystem functioning.
Eleonora Fossile +5 more
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Geomorphology and surficial geology of the Femmilsjøen area, northern Spitsbergen [PDF]
, 2021 Climate change is amplified in the Arctic, and establishing baseline data for its current character is important. Here we present a map of the geomorphology of the Femmilsjøen area, Spitsbergen, northern Svalbard.
Håkansson, Lena +8 more
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Sedimentology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Features considered indicative of hyperpycnites and intrabasinal turbidites overlap. Outcrop study presented here suggests that the Westward Ho! Formation forms an 800 m high deepwater‐slope system dominated by hyperpycnites. Taking this unit, and other successions where hyperpycnites have been described, as having been deposited solely from ...
Tony Reynolds
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Лëд и снег, 2016 Thickness of the upper cold ice layer in the ablation area of the polythermal glacier Grønfjordbreen (Spitsbergen) was estimated by means of numerical modeling.
A. V. Sosnovsky +3 more
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Геологія і корисні копалини Світового океану, 2023 The newly obtained results of the frequency-resonance (FR) technologies application for the study of the sources and processes of seeps and pockmarks formation in the Arctic Region (Norwegian, Barents Sea) and the North Sea are considered.
V.D. Solovyov +2 more
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Geographical investigations in the management of the svalbard environment
Quaestiones Geographicae, 2019 The paper concerns specific features of exploration, geographical recognition, exploitation of natural resources, and economy of the archipelago. Development of the Svalbard system of nature protection areas and its impact on the environment and human ...
Ziaja Wiesław
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Ecological Research, Volume 41, Issue 4, July 2026.Uncertainties exist in the biosphere–climate feedbacks in the Arctic. Remote and ground measurements play complementary roles in detecting possible changes. A critical next step is identification of key drivers of the global changes for future projections. ABSTRACT Positive biosphere–climate feedbacks are likely to amplify the Arctic warming, yet major
Akira S. Mori +10 more
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Norwegian State Practice and the Treaty Relating to Spitsbergen (Current International Law Issues)
Московский журнал международного права, 2016 The author reviews the key international legal actions undertaken by Norway since 1977 in avoidance of the Treaty of 9 February 1920 relating to Spitsbergen (hereinafter - “Spitsbergen Treaty”), as well as their significance in terms of spatial extension
Vera M. Savva
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Atmosphere, 2020 Biomass burning related aerosol episodes are becoming a serious threat to the radiative balance of the Arctic region. Since early July 2017 intense wildfires were recorded between August and September in Canada and Greenland, covering an area up to 4674 ...
Tymon Zielinski +15 more
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