My World Is Melting

Name: My World Is Melting
Brand: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
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Living with Climate Change in Svalbard

By: Line Nagell Ylvisaker, Kelsey Camacho (Translator)

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Paperback | 5 May 2026

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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 YlvisAker. In her arresting book My World Is Melting, YlvisAker explores the effects of a warming planet up close and personal, from inside a remote community intimately attuned to its environment. YlvisAker 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.

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Praise for the Norwegian edition: "Vivid literary nonfiction-filled with poetic, striking and surprising images."-Dagbladet "In YlvisAker's book, the personal experience of the environmental changes is an excellent framework for communicating. . . . This easy-to-read and engaging book should have great potential to create understanding for the seriousness of the situation."-Klassekampen "A documentary page turner."-AltsA magazine Praise for the German edition: "A story of the climate crisis that is as instructive as it is captivating."-Su?ddeutsche Zeitung "A gripping, forceful plea against the climate catastrophe."-3SAT "Kulturzeit" "A report from the front on the fight against climate change, enlightening and touching."-Focus

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