Rapid warming threatens Norway’s Arctic village of Longyearbyen
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Temperatures in Svalbard are rising up to seven times faster than the global average, threatening Longyearbyen with toxic tap water, thawing permafrost and landslides. Glaciers cover 57% of the islands, but Foxfonna is thinning by 1–4 metres a year, while 10 marine glacier fronts retreated entirely on to land in two years.
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