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Svalbard’s climate change fight

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Svalbard's Climate Change

Siv Limstrand has been vicar of Svalbard for the past three years. She is shocked by the impact of climate change she's seen in that time. The layer of frozen ground under the surface, or permafrost melting, there's a growing chance of avalanches in the winter and landslides in the summer. We know that the clock is ticking. Life here, it is so on the limits. It's so on the edge. Maybe we should leave Svalbard to the scientists. But we can't do that out of political reasons because this is kind of a political hotspot. I am the world's northernmost vicar and I have the whole of

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