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Icy polar bear melts in Copenhagen while politicians argue
... of the island of Spitsbergen, has around 2075 residents, and is the administrative centre of the archipelago of Svalbard. The icy area is home to about 3000 polar bears, and StorA is the resident artist. "The frozen bear will be a silent cry from ... Comment?
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UFO over Norway? No, just a missile
... heshire Global seed vault 26 Feb 2008: 1.7m "Noah's ark of seeds" near the town of Longyearbyen, in Norway's remote Svalbard islands, will protect the 2m seeds that represent the world's agricultural biodiversity Comment?
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Iran seizes peace laureate's medal
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... -jung Global seed vault 26 Feb 2008: A 1.7m "Noah's ark of seeds" near the town of Longyearbyen, in Norway's remote Svalbard islands, will protect the 2m seeds that represent the world's agricultural biodiversity Comment?
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The Ultratravel top 10 winter treats
... journeys through Siberia, snow travel is the way to go. Nigel Tisdall selects 10 dreamy trips. To heaven by husky: Svalbard, Norway Far above the Arctic Circle, the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard is a savagely attractive land of glaciers, polar ... Comment?
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GAC announces alliance with Pole Position Spitsbergen and establishes its northernmost base
United Arab Emirates: 4 hours, 11 minutes ago GAC Group has established its latest base on the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. Comment?
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... Noorderlicht, a hundred-year old Dutch schooner, we left Longyearbyen one week ago in the Norwegian territory of Svalbard, the most northerly point in the world with regular air service, for several weeks traveling the Arctic through open sea and ... Comment?
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Snake-smuggler fails to slip past customs
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... r 2007: Rob Bell, project manager at the Energy Saving Trust, travelled to the world's most northerly settlement at Svalbard in Norway to find out what its glaciers can tell us about climate change. Comment?
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Lewis chessmen reunited after 170 years for tour of Scotland
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... w Global seed vault 26 Feb 2008: A 1.7m a oeNoaha s ark of seedsa near the town of Longyearbyen, in Norway's remote Svalbard islands, will protect the 2m seeds that represent the worlda s agricultural biodiversity Comment?
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Congo sentences Norwegians to death
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... w Global seed vault 26 Feb 2008: A 1.7m a oeNoaha s ark of seedsa near the town of Longyearbyen, in Norway's remote Svalbard islands, will protect the 2m seeds that represent the worlda s agricultural biodiversity Comment?
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UN chief visits 'doomsday' seed vault in Arctic
... population in the context of climate change,' a bundled-up Ban told reporters after he toured the site in the Svalbard archipelago some 1,200 kilometres from the North Pole. 'The seeds stored here in Svalbard will help us do just that. Sustainable ... Comment?
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From Polar ice rim, Ban issues call for urgent action on climate change
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... moral and political responsibility required of the leaders of the world,' he added. In the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard today, the Secretary-General visited the Global Seed Vault, which was established early last year to protect seed samples ... Comment?
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a collapsed glacier at the atmospheric measuring station in Ny-Aalesund
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... these glaciers all worn," he told journalists as he visited the Ny-Aalesund climate change research station in the Svalbard archipelago, located 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) from the North Pole. "Unless we take urgent action to stem this trend, we ... Comment?
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UN chief urges leaders over climate change
... world leaders that this is the time to act before it is too late," Ban told reporters during a visit to Norway's Svalbard archipelago, just 1,200 kilometres (745 miles) from the North Pole. "The Arctic is similar to sending a canary into a coalmine ... Comment?
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Earth may be ice-free by 2030, says UN
... to have seen these glaciers all worn," he said as he visited the Ny-Alesund climate change research station in the Svalbard archipelago, located 1200km from the North Pole. "Unless we take urgent action to stem this trend, we maybe virtually ... Comment?
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UN chief 'alarmed' at Arctic glacier melt
... these glaciers all worn," he told journalists as he visited the Ny-Aalesund climate change research station in the Svalbard archipelago, located 1,200 kilometres (745 miles) from the North Pole. "Unless we take urgent action to stem this trend, we ... Comment?
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Above the Arctic Circle, Ban sees first-hand view of climate change's impact
... greenhouse gas emissions. Having departed the Norwegian capital, Oslo, yesterday, Mr. Ban made his way to the Svalbard archipelago off the northern coast, where today he visited research stations and met with scientists, who updated him on the ... Comment?
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon briefed on Arctic climate off Norway
... Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday on their research. Ban arrived late Monday at Longyearbyen, the main settlement in the Svalbard Archipelago north of the Arctic Circle. The UN secretary general has said he wanted to see at first hand the effects of climate ... Comment?
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UN chief sees climate change first-hand in Arctic
... foreign minister, kicked off his trip with a visit to the Korean section of the Ny-Aalesund research station in the Svalbard archipelago, located 1,200 kilometres (745 miles) from the North Pole, an advisor at the Kings Bay company which runs the ... Comment?
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UN: Climate change in Arctic
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UN SECRETARY General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday visited a research community in Ny-Aalesund in the Arctic's Svalbard archipelago to see the effects of climate change first-hand, officials said. Comment?
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AMASE blog 2009: SLIce: Searching for Signatures of Life in Ice
... from the deers, foxes and birds there are some animals that sometimes can be very unfriendly: polar bears. And in Svalbard you are not allowed to go to the field if you don't know how to defend yourself against them. This doesn't mean that you will ... Comment?
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