A cutaway side view of a proposed “solar-powered lunar ark” to store samples of every form of life on Earth is presented during IEEE Aerospace Conference held virtually during the past weekend. Things are so dire we need a new “global insurance policy” on the moon, built underground in a series of lava tubes and staffed by robots. It seems Svalbard’s “Doomsday Vault” isn’t fit after all to be the “new Noah’s Ark” that will be the “ultimate safeguard” for the world’s food supply in the event of Armageddon – a mere and unlucky 13 years after opening. 3 reasons the Willow oil drilling project in Alaska’s Arctic was approved.A new documentary is a cry for decolonization across the Arctic.Sweden passes NATO accession bill as it waits on ratification. Turkish parliamentary commission approves Finland’s NATO bid, TRT Haber reports.Nordic countries plan joint air defense to counter Russian threat.As Australia faces a ‘hydrogen tipping point’, the energy industry needs smart policies, not huge handouts.Wash, blow dry and 1.5 degrees please: hairdressers trained to talk about climate action.There’s no greater feminist cause than the climate fight – and saving each other.Little progress made on energy efficiency in UK homes, report finds.Australia politics live: hard cap on emissions in Greens-Labor safeguard deal is ‘a big hit on coal and gas’, Bandt says.‘Extremely Rare’ Snowy Owl Sighting Transfixes a California Suburb.Polar Bear Kills Woman and Boy in Remote Alaskan Village.Latest to Experience Polar Vortex Temperatures Inside the Hunt for U.F.O.s at the End of the World.Así es la búsqueda de ovnis en los confines del mundo.Regulations Relating to Pollution and Waste in Svalbard.The Norwegian Government plans to increase national security, especially in the North.Guidebook “Spitsbergen-Svalbard”: new edition available!.SV Noorderlicht grounded in Norway, free again.Longyearbyen planned to become smaller and more Norwegian.Tiny technology to outwit deadly winter threat.Call for Applications for the NVP Summer School in Svalbard 2023.Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre briefed on Arctic field work preparations at UNIS.It’s the perfect home for a second “ark” to reduce the risk of biodiversity being lost if a catastrophic event were to annihilate certain species on Earth.Download PDF (18.9MB) by clicking cover image UNIS News Happily, we have a Moon just 238,855 miles/384,400 km from Earth where nothing ever happens. “Earth is naturally a volatile environment.” “It also caused a 1,000-year cooling period and, according to some, aligns with an estimated drop in human diversity,” said Jekan Thanga, a professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering in the UArizona College of Engineering and the SpaceTREx Laboratory, who presented the paper. The massive eruption, where Lake Toba is now in Sumatra, Indonesia, caused a global volcanic winter lasting up to a decade. However, the driving force behind the lunar ark isn’t climate change or sea-level rise per se, but the Toba supervolcanic eruption of 75,000 years ago. Svalbard is experiencing rapidly rising temperatures. It’salso built at only 430 ft./130 meters above sea level. Its “permafrost mountain” home can no longer be relied upon to stay frozen, flooding the entrance in 2017.
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