{"id":2059,"date":"2016-10-30T11:07:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T15:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2016-10-30T11:28:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T15:28:50","slug":"field-notes-svalbard-coal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/2016\/10\/field-notes-svalbard-coal\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Notes: Svalbard Coal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWorking a 3-foot Seam<\/p>\n

The Svalbard Archipelago hosts the northernmost coal mines in the world. For now, only enough coal is being extracted to run the aging power plant in the largest settlement in the archipelago, Longyearbyen, on the island of Spitzbergen. The others have been closed \u2013 but not out of climate concerns. \"abandoned-coal-car-cableway\"<\/a>
\nCoal Car Cableway (Temporarily?) Shut Down<\/p>\n

Rather, it is the dwindling economics of coal that pushed the closure. That the mine owners claim that closure to be temporary only drives the point home. Even 800 miles above the Arctic Circle, in the most fragile climate on the planet, money trumps common sense.
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\nGlacier in Rapid Retreat<\/p>\n

Of late, I\u2019ve been including, in both my Arctic and Antarctic Tweets, the hash tag #NoIceNoUs.<\/p>\n

No joke.<\/p>\n

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\nAlkefjellet Cliffs<\/p>\n

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\nIvory Gull on Blue Ice, Brepollen<\/p>\n

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\nFemale Polar Bear, in the pack ice, 81.36 North Latitude<\/p>\n

\"thick-billed-murre-alkefjellet-20160717_031128_87502016\"Thick-billed Murre <\/a> <\/p>\n

It is worth seeing for yourself. And it is worth saving. To hear my prose essay on Svalbard coal and see more photographs, layer-up, slip into your kayak, and paddle over to Living on Earth<\/a><\/p>\n

My fieldwork in Svalbard was supported by One Ocean Expeditions<\/a>, and\u00a0I highly recommend them.<\/p>\n

Mark Seth Lender
\nProducer\/Essayist\/Photographer
\nLiving on Earth<\/a>
\nMember: Explorers Club
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