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☆ What life is like in one of the most remote places on Earth
  + stars: | 2024-11-03 | by ( Yahya Salem | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +8 min
Blomdahl moved to Svalbard in 2015 and documents her unique life to millions of fascinated social media followers. But as Blomdahl knows, life in Svalbard isn’t easy. Polar night runs from mid-November to the end of January, when the sun doesn’t rise above the horizon. I just want to show Svalbard the way it is.” Cecilia BlomdahlAs for day-to-day life, Svalbard is sufficiently equipped with the means to sustain its population. Local officials have geared available resources to primarily maintain life on Svalbard as it is, given the environmental and developmental constraints.
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☆ A Journey Into Norway’s Endless Night
  + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Taymour Soomro | Scott Conarroe | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
The endless night conceals the passage of time, as though we were remote from time’s effects, too, without Emily Dickinson’s slant of light that heralds death. Where better than this frozen earth, far from the ravages of human conflict and heat, for an international seed vault and the Arctic World Archive, both of which are just outside of Longyearbyen. The former, sometimes described as a doomsday vault, contains 1.2 million seed samples deposited by seed banks around the world for safekeeping. Withdrawals from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault — by a gene bank formerly in Aleppo, Syria — have already been conducted. Climate change is likely to be particularly hazardous to bears — lack of sea ice means less access to seals.
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