Line Nagell Ylvisåker, 40, is the weekly’s new editor-in-chief « Svalbardposten », the northernmost newspaper in the world, as the saying goes. The Norwegian journalist settled in 2005 in Longyearbyen, 2,600 inhabitants, the main town of the Svalbard archipelago (Norway), in the Arctic, where global warming is much faster than elsewhere on the planet.
CLIMATE LESIONS
In our series “Climate damage”, we tell how the effects of climate change affect us intimately. Louisa, 15, remembers the day the mountain opposite her bedroom window collapsed due to the thawing of permafrost, the “cement of the Alps”. The church of Varengeville, which is in danger of collapsing into the sea, puts the inhabitants in a dilemma. The demolition of the Signal building, threatened by erosion, caused heartache. Dear readers, if you also wish to testify or submit an idea to us, write to us ([email protected]).
The eighteen years she spent on the island of Spitsbergen, located 1,300 kilometers south of the North Pole, gave her ample opportunity to observe the effects of climate change on the region. In “My World Is Melting”, her book translated into English last year, she tells how the predictions of scientists, which for a long time seemed abstract to her, ended up turning her life upside down. .
We met her at the end of the mo
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