According to an article on cnn.com there are some worrying things happening here in the arctic. Scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, USA claims that arctic sea ice might totally melt away in September.
During the last decades the Arctic ice has become thinner and thinner each year. Looks like it might totally disappear this summer, but it depends on what kind of weather the north will get.
This is good news for the greedy oil companies as this makes it easier to search for oil and gas in the arctic. I know that Statoil (the biggest oil company here in Norway) has made plans on drilling in the north. I hope our politicians have the guts to stop the madness before it is too late, but I doubt it as they are allowing drilling for oil in the sea right outside of Northern Norway where the big fish stocks are living.

The last few years the sea temperature has been pretty high here in Northern Norway, resulting in blooming of algae and jellyfish. This seems to have messed with the fish populations in the fjord where I live, as the big shoals of fish did not arrive during the summer like they usually do.
I hope the fishing will be better this summer, but this research might be an indicator of bad fishing.

In about a month I am moving from the northern part of Norway to the outskirts of Oslo in the south. I am not taking much with me, but if I were to bring all my belongings I would look for a moving company since using one makes moving so much easier than doing everything on your own.

A website that helps you find a good and cheap moving company is movers.com. They can help you by letting you search through a lot of different moving companies to find the best quotes.
You can simply enter your information about where you are moving from and where you are planing on moving to. You can also choose what size your move is so you can find the best prices. When you have entered this information movers.com will give you quotes from moving companies that operate in your area.
Movers.com checks all the different companies in their database so you can be sure that they do not offer services from moving companies that are not serious.

Movers.com are mainly for moving within the United States, but you can also search for international movers both for moving to and out of the United States.
If I were to move to USA I would probably use this service to find a moving company that could move my stuff from Norway.

Some truly great news from the U.S! The state of Florida has done a deal with US Sugar Corp that owns 800sq km (300sq miles) of land in the Everglades. The company will sell the land for $1.75bn to the authorities and then the land will be turned back into wetland.
US Sugar Corp used the land to grow sugar cane and it will end the the growing in six years.
The sugar cane industry has been blamed for destroying the unique environment in Everglades so this turn of events will probably help the ecosystem a great deal.

Lets hope other states and governments will do the same thing in the future.

Every summer I see many cruise ships sailing by here in Northern Norway. They are filled with tourists from all over the world that want to experience the exotic Norwegian coastline filled with deep fjords and midnight sun during the night. One day I would love to go on a cruise to experience other parts of the world that have a warmer climate than the one here in Norway.

A firm called Cruise Vacation Center offer a wide variety of different cruises and have sent over 250,000 passengers out on the mighty seas.
They offer cruises from companies like Princess Cruises that are known from the TV series “The Love Boat” where two ships from the cruise line were featured. With Princess Cruises you can get a bit different cruise experience by that they let you customize the trip to best fit your unique needs.

Another company they offer cruises from is Cunard Cruise Lines. This cruise liner are behind the famous and luxury ships Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth 2. Cunard Cruise Lines have been operating since 1840 so they have a lot of experience.

Cruise Vacation Center also offer cruises from Holland America Cruise Line that sails all over that world from the warm Caribbean to the exotic coast of New Zealand and Australia to the icy cold waters of Antarctica.

According to WWF the dead zones in the Baltic Sea are growing. 7 of the 10 biggest dead zones are actually found in the Baltic Sea, according to a scientist at the World Resource Institute.
But these dead zones are growing all over the world as research has show that around 4/5ths of the US coast and 2/3rds of Europe’s coasts are threatened by dead zones.

The dead zones occur because of an increase in chemical nutrients in the water. The main “sinners” of this kind of pollution are agriculture, human sewage, urban runoff, industrial effluent, and fossil fuel combustion. The excessive nutrients cause algae blossoms and this in turn makes the oceans (or lakes) depleted of oxygen. In these dead zones all marine life dies.

Sounds like it is time to turn more agriculture into organic farming as organic farming does not produce so much excessive nutrients that can run off into our oceans.

I love to travel all over the world when I have free time and have saved up some money.
When I plan the trips I always use online search engines to find the cheapest and most convenient airfares. I do the same thing if I am planing on staying at hotels at my travel destinations.

A search engine that make it easy to find cheap tickets is cFares. They are not a travel agency themselves, but they make it easy to search a wide variety of different online travel agencies, airlines and wholesalers to find the cheapest tickets. cFares has a simple form where you can fill in your travel information, both for air flights and hotels, and then the website will show you the various travel options.

To use cFares you simply have to become a member. You can choose two different types of membership. Gold membership is completely free and you get access to fares that are publicly available. If you choose Platinum membership you get access to fares from wholesalers and other types of tickets that is not publicly available. The types of fares you get access to with Platinum membership are often cheaper than regular tickets.
Platinum membership costs 50 USD per year and you can try it for 30 days risk free. If you are not satisfied with the membership cFares will refund the fee.

I found some more depressive news about our oceans. According to an article on discovery.com we are seeing increasing amounts of jellyfish in our oceans. Researchers believe the reason for this is overfishing and global warming.

The amount of jellyfish is a good indicator of how life in oceans change. The larger species feed on jellyfish and when these species are becoming less numerous the jellyfish are able to grow. Jellyfish also compete with other species about food sources like small fish and zooplankton so when there are large number of jellyfish in the ocean it is able to hurt the regrowth of other species.
One other reason that jellyfish is getting the upper hand is the rising ocean temperature as jellyfish are able reproduce for a longer period of time.

The growing numbers of jellyfish has been observed all over the world and especially in parts of the oceans where there is heavy fishing going on, like off the coast of Namibia.
I have also observed unusually large numbers of jellyfish here in Northern Norway. I hope this is a part of their natural circle and not a sign of a failing ecosystem..