Barion Pixel

Hírek

Rapid warming threatens Norway’s Arctic village of Longyearbyen

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