My World Is Melting

Living with Climate Change in Svalbard

Line Nagell Ylvisåker (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

188 Seiten

2026
University of Wisconsin Press (Verlag)
978-0-299-35734-4 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Preface
Falling Down
A Black, Wet Autumn and New Avalanches
Sleep, Little Sprout
Climate on Speed
The Town
The Trapper and the Pope
Essential Stardust
The Mountain
Trees of Stone
A Great Paradox
Royal Unrest
The Sea, the Fjords, and the Ice That Disappeared
Plants in Ice and Permafrost
Almost a Gummy Bear
Grandmother in the Snowstorm
Can’t Make Everything Safe
Into Safe Houses
Three Years After Surviving the Avalanche
Afterword
Update: The Warmest Summer
Acknowledgments
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Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.5.2026
Übersetzer	Kelsey Camacho
Verlagsort	Wisconsin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	0-299-35734-1 / 0299357341
ISBN-13	978-0-299-35734-4 / 9780299357344
Zustand	Neuware