My World Is Melting: Living with Climate Change in Svalbard by Ylvisåker, Line Nagell

My World Is Melting: Living with Climate Change in Svalbard (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780299357344)

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My World Is Melting: Living with Climate Change in Svalbard by Ylvisåker, Line Nagell

My World Is Melting: Living with Climate Change in Svalbard

$19.95
My World Is Melting: Living with Climate Change in Svalbard by Ylvisåker, Line Nagell

My World Is Melting: Living with Climate Change in Svalbard

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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In 2015, a massive avalanche descended on the small Arctic Norwegian city of Longyearbyen, Svalbard, leveling eleven houses and killing a two-year-old girl and a young father. It was a tragic natural disaster but one that was becoming increasingly and alarmingly common for citizens of Svalbard, like journalist Line Nagell Ylvisåker. In her arresting book My World Is Melting, Ylvisåker explores the effects of a warming planet up close and personal, from inside a remote community intimately attuned to its environment.

Ylvisåker introduces readers to her friends and neighbors, including dedicated meteorologists racing to anticipate future disasters and a veteran trapper who harbors doubts about climate change even as he bears witness to a constantly shifting landscape. Blending memoir, long-form journalism, and scientific reportage, she provides an intimate picture of life in a place where the effects of climate change can be seen in all their startling reality--and a compelling and hopeful argument for collective and cooperative action across the globe.

Author: Line Nagell Ylvisåker
ISBN-10: 0299357341
ISBN-13: 9780299357344
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2026
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback
By Line Nagell Ylvisåker
By Line Nagell Ylvisåker
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Line Nagell Ylvisåker is an editor, journalist, and nonfiction writer living in the high Arctic. From 2006 to 2018, she worked for the newspaper Svalbardposten, where she received several awards for her writing about Svalbard; since 2023, she has served as Svalbardposten's editor in chief. She holds a master's degree from the University of Oslo and lectures on climate change throughout Norway.

Kelsey Camacho is a writer and translator who guides expeditions in the polar regions, cares for sled dogs, and leads local writing workshops. Her work can be found in Nowhere Magazine, Bitch Media, Entropy, Portland Review, and elsewhere. Originally from North Carolina, she's based in Longyearbyen, Svalbard.

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