Line Nagell Ylvisåker | My World is melting

MY WORLD IS MELTING

TO LIVE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE ON SVALBARD

Original title: Verda mi smeltar Å leve med klimaendring på Svalbard Publisher: Samlaget, 2020 Category: Non Fiction Pages: 160 pages

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Sweden, Modernista Group Germany, Hoffmann und Campe

In 2006 Line Nagell Ylvisåker moved to Svalbard. In Desember it was clear that it would be the warmest year in Svalbard since the temperature measurements started. A climate scientist warned the archipelago would get several degrees warmer in the decades to come. Line did not pay much notice.

In 2015 a snow avalanche thundered down from the mountain Sukkertoppen and hit 11 houses in Longyearbyen. A two-year-old girl and a family father died. There were landslides, and houses were evacuated when the earth burst up after heavy rain. Line suddenly became uneasy when there was bad weather on the horizon. What was happening with her dear town? She needs some answers, and begins to investigate her own surroundings. She talks to the meteorologist who herself was buried in the snow masses in 2015. She seeks climate scientists and a trapper with 40 wintering behind him. She is shown how the deep sea is systematically warmed up, meets three polar bears on a hike with her kids, and follows the relocation of houses in Longyearbyen. It is evident that the times are changing. This is a story about a rising unrest and about living in the midst of the hot spot of climate change.

She writes temperamental literary non-fiction - with elements of surprising, striking and poetic images.

Dagbladet

In Ylvisåker's book, the personal experience of the environmental changes is an excellent framework for communicating - knowledge...This easy-to-read and engaging book should have great potential to create understanding for the seriousness of the situation to many - in an ideal world.

Klassekampen

Line Nagell Ylvisåker

Line Nagell Ylvisåker (b. 1982) is a trained journalist and worked from 2006 to 2018 at the newspaper Svalbardposten. She has received several awards for her writing from Svalbard.