2021.11.30

The Polar Crucible

A warming climate brings sweeping changes to the world's northernmost town

Longyearbyen is wedged between barren mountains and an increasingly ice-free fjord on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. Rapidly rising temperatures are making the region more physically unstable yet more economically alluring.| Marzena Skubatz

Longyearbyen is wedged between barren mountains and an increasingly ice-free fjord on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. Rapidly rising temperatures are making the region more physically unstable yet more economically alluring.| Marzena Skubatz

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