Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis

Grist
By Matt SimonJul 29, 2025, 4:30 am134 pts
The Arctic island of Svalbard is so reliably frigid that humanity bet its future on the place. Since 2008, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault — set deep in frozen soil known as permafrost — has accepted nearly 1.4 million samples of more than 6,000 species of critical crops. But, the island is warming six to…

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