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Severe flooding has been reported in parts of southern Norway
after heavy rain brought by storm Synne between 04 and 06 December
2015. Maudal in Gjesdal, Rogaland saw just under 300 mm of rain in 3
days.
No injuries or deaths have been reported. However the flooding
has caused some damage to roads, bridges and homes in Rogaland,
Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder counties. Around 100 families had to be
evacuated from their homes in Eigersund, Rogaland county. Norway’s state
broadcaster, NRK, reports that around 30 farms have also been severely hit, suffering major damage. Floods in Eigersund, Norway, December 2015. Photo: Eigersund KommuneThe
rain has now stopped but river levels remain high. Authorities in
Sweden also report high river levels in western parts of Götaland and
nothern part of Halland.
Parts of southern Norway saw flooding earlier this year after 97 mm of rain fell in Melsom during a 24 hour period between 01 and 02 September 2015.
The slime has been described as "a plague" by local fishermen. Photo: Roger Larsen/ University in Tromsø.
Mystery purple slime coats Norway fjord
Published: 10 Nov 2015 14:12 GMT+01:00
A
mysterious purple slime has emerged off the coast of northern Norway,
coating millions of cubic meters of a picturesque fjord with a strange
mucoid, margarine-like substance.
“We
have not been able to find out what this really is, other than that we
are talking about large amounts of jellyfish,” Roger Larsen, associate
professor at the University in Tromsø, told state news broadcaster NRK
on Sunday.
“The images we are picking up from the echo
sounders and other equipment are totally atypical. We have tried to
gather information to find the answers, but I am absolutely sure that
this is something we’ve never seen before.”
By News from Elsewhere......as found by BBC Monitoring
12 November 2015
Image copyrightRoger B. Larsen/UiT Image caption Fisherman have been hauling in the slime during their trawls
Scientists
in Norway say a huge area of reddish-purple slime which has appeared on
the country's northern coast could be the result of disintegrated
jellyfish.
Fisherman first reported the emergence of the mucus in the Lyngen Fjord in late August, and now describe it as
a "plague" which is causing problems for their sonar equipment, and
coating their daily catch. The origin of the slime isn't yet certain,
but oceanographers at the Institute of Marine Research say cigar comb
jellyfish could be to blame, The Local website reports.
About
250 barrels of oil spilled from a platform in the North Sea during the
transfer of products to an oil tanker, Norwegian energy company Statoil
said. Statoil said the oil spill was discovered during the loaded of oil
from the Statfjord A platform in the North Sea to oil tanker Hilda
Knutsen. The company said in its latest update on the spill that about
250 barrels in total were released into the North Sea. "Further
assessment and investigations will uncover the scope and causes [of the
spill] in more detail," the company said in a statement. Loading to
Hilda Knutsen was halted, though operations at the Statfjord A platform
were proceeding as normal. Statoil said the relevant authorities were
notified, though there were no statements from the Norwegian Petroleum
Safety Authority. In January last year, the company shut down operations
at the Statfjord C platform after emergency systems detected an oil
leak. More than 250 crewmembers were evacuated to lifeboats but returned
to their living quarters later in the day. No injuries were reported.
Statoil said the weather in the area at the time of the Stratfjord C
incident was "harsh." Statoil said the region is producing an average
80,000 barrels of oil per day.
Norwegian
energy company Statoil said about 250 barrels of oil spilled during
incident at North Sea platform. Photo courtesy of Statoil
STAVANGER, Norway, Oct. 9 (UPI) --
About 250 barrels of oil spilled from a platform in the North Sea
during the transfer of products to an oil tanker, Norwegian energy
company Statoil said.
Statoil said the oil spill was discovered
during the loaded of oil from the Statfjord A platform in the North Sea
to oil tanker Hilda Knutsen. The company said in its latest update on the spill that about 250 barrels in total were released into the North Sea.
"Further
assessment and investigations will uncover the scope and causes [of the
spill] in more detail," the company said in a statement.
Loading to Hilda Knutsen was halted, though operations at the Statfjord A platform were proceeding as normal.
The Svalbard global
seed vault is primarily designed as a back-up for the many gene banks
around the world that keep samples of crop diversity for agricultural
businesses. Photograph: Alamy
A Noah's Ark of 20,000 plant species will unload this week at a
remote Arctic port to deposit humanity's latest insurance payment
against an agricultural apocalypse or a man-made cock-up.
Brazilian
beans and Japanese barley are among the botanical varieties that are
carried aboard the ship that is shortly expected to dock near the Svalbard global seed vault, that celebrates its sixth anniversary this week.
The
facility, which is bored into the side of a mountain by the Barents
Sea, is primarily designed as a back-up for the many gene banks around
the world that keep samples of crop diversity for agricultural
businesses.
But its operators, the Global Crop Diversity Trust,
say the "Doomsday Vault" could also help to reboot the world's farms in
the event of a climate catastrophe or a collapse of genetically
modified crops.
Built to withstand a nuclear strike, a tectonic
shift or rising sea levels, the vault has the capacity to store 4.5m
different seed varieties for centuries.
Currently, it holds
820,619 samples of food crops and their natural relatives, but this is
steadily increasing with one or two shipments each year, according to
the trust, which maintains the seed vault in partnership with the
Norwegian government and the Nordic Genetic Resources Centre.
