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After today, the sun will set in Longyearbyen in Norway and will not rise again until almost midday in mid-February 2025.

lying roughly midway between Norway’s northern coast and the North Pole, is the site of the world’s northernmost permanent ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has a practical mission – protecting seeds as a backup for seed banks around the world – but ...

It seemed achievable even when we reached Longyearbyen ... (travellers need a Schengen visa to fly through Norway). We arrived in Svalbard, from Oslo via Tromsø, in June—early days of Polar ...

Today, seed banks around the world are doing much of the work of saving crop varieties that could be essential resources under future growing conditions. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway ...

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway supports them all ... Its cosmopolitan capital, Longyearbyen, is home to 2,700 people from 50 countries, drawn by ecotourism and scientific research ...

Longyearbyen is warming six times ... the average stay in Svalbard is only seven years, according to Statistics Norway. Yet this conveniently aligns with a desire not to expand life on Svalbard ...

Eight years into living in Longyearbyen, on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, I embrace the seasonal plunge into total ...