Troubling Scenes From an Arctic in Full-Tilt Crisis - Inside Climate News
SVALBARD, NORWAY, AUG 2 – Svalbard is warming six to seven times faster than the planet, causing permafrost thaw and flooding risks to the seed vault, which stores 1.4 million crop samples.
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Arctic Ecosystems Are Falling Apart Under Strain of Warming Climate
The Arctic island of Svalbard is so reliably frigid that humanity bet its future on the place. Since 2008, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault — set deep in frozen soil known as permafrost — has accepted nearly 1.4 million samples of more than 6,000 species of critical crops. But, the island is warming six to seven times faster than the rest of the planet, making even winters freakishly hot… Source
Troubling Scenes From an Arctic in Full-Tilt Crisis - Inside Climate News
The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."By Matt Simon, GristThis story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.


Troubling Scenes From an Arctic in Full-Tilt Crisis
The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream." By Matt Simon, Grist This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here.
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