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These rare seeds escaped Syria's war—to help feed the world
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These rare seeds escaped Syria's war—to help feed the world

Conflict forced scientists to abandon a gene bank, but not before duplicating their last remnants of essential crops in the Svalbard vault on a remote Arctic island.
Svalbard coal mine flooded by melting glacier
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Climate change hits back, Svalbard coal mine flooded by melting glacier

After days with record heat at Svalbard, the penetration of water from the above melting glacier is now flooding Norway’s only operating coal mine that supplies the country’s only coal-power plant.
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