Also by Frida Bengtsson

With rights come responsibilities

Posted by Frida Bengtsson - 30 March 2012 at 10:39am - Comments
Frida Bengtsson
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Frida Bengtsson

I’m in sunny Stockholm this week, spring is here for sure and woolly hats and gloves are yet again stored away for next winter.  In a grand Natural History museum, not so far from where I work, sit scientists, Indigenous representatives, civil society organisations and senior officials from Arctic States to discuss new alarming findings regarding the rapid changes that are taking place in the Arctic and how that will impact those that live there and the nature and wildlife that they depend on for their very survival.

Amundsen, Antarctica and the power of impossible ambitions

Posted by Frida Bengtsson - 19 December 2011 at 1:41pm - Comments
Taking an observation at the pole
All rights reserved. Credit: Mr. Steve Nicklas, NOS, NGS via the NOAA Photo Library
Taking an observation at the pole

As I write, this I'm looking out of my window of the Fefor hotel in Norway at a wintery landscape of mountains, forest and an ice-covered lake - the same place where Amundsen, Nansen and Scott planned their historic expeditions to the poles. That I'm here with a team to plan our future polar work is an inspiring and humbling parallel.

Frozen in time

Posted by Frida Bengtsson - 26 September 2011 at 3:38pm - Comments
Svea Coal Mine in Svalbard
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Svea coal mine in Svalbard

I will never forget Pyramiden, an abandoned Russian mining town on Svalbard that I visited last year. Walking over green grass unheard of in the Arctic and passing by building complexes that could be the homes of hundreds of people. The feeling that those who lived there had just gone out on a day-trip and would be coming back soon.

Into thin ice and heading back to the Arctic

Posted by Frida Bengtsson - 25 August 2011 at 5:06pm - Comments
Polar bear rests on a floe of Arctic sea ice in the Labrador Sea
All rights reserved. Credit: Jiri Rezac / Greenpeace
The Arctic sea ice is getting smaller - and thinner - each year

The cracking and rumbling when the ship pushes the ice flows aside to make passage; the countless shades of blue and white in the ice, sea, and melt water; the feeling of being completely removed from the ordinary world, without phones or internet.

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