Angry Norwegians in scuba gear chase after Google Street View car Boing Boing
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/09/angry-norwegians-in.html
This is hella epic.
BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | Why dying is forbidden in the Arctic
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7501691.stm
"The town's small graveyard stopped accepting newcomers 70 years ago, after it was discovered that the bodies were failing to decompose."
'Doomsday vault' to house world's seeds
http://www.physorg.com/news9794.html
"Norway is to build a "doomsday vault" in a mountain close to the North Pole that will house a vast seed bank to ensure food supplies in the event of catastrophic climate change, nuclear war or rising sea levels, New Scientist says."