New York Times: For anyone in the market for a majestic waterfront property with easy access to the North Pole, Ole Einar Gjerde has a deal. We will throw in the polar bears for free, said Mr. Gjerde, pitching the attractions of a huge tract of Arctic land two and half times bigger than Manhattan but considerably less noisy. It has a human population of zero.
But the sale of the property, across a frigid fjord from Longyearbyen, the capital of Norways northernmost territory, has kicked up a noisy storm fed...