This Norwegian village is one of the fastest-warming places on Earth. How can its people save it?
THE GUARDIAN · LONDON — As glaciers melt and permafrost thaws, Longyearbyen, on the remote Arctic islands of Svalbard, faces climate-induced problems from tap water to housebuilding to landslides • Heavy metals make Norwegian village’s tap water toxic On a rugged mountain plateau of snow-dusted rocks, in the remote archipelago of Svalbard, a…
- CODE
- RT-3E0886
- PUBLISHER
- The Guardian — Environment
- TOPIC
- Climate
- PUBLISHED
- 21 October 2026 · 06:00 UTC
- FIRST SEEN
- 28 October 2026 · 12:19 UTC
- ORIGINAL
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/21/norway-svalbard-environment-longyearbyen-climate-heating-glacier-permafrost
- SHA-256
- dc7a4089636c4a2e322290274bedb0fd9990170f2d05845875af7b5e47e01599
The fingerprint is the SHA-256 of the original link, the headline and the publication time joined by “|”. Anyone can recompute it to confirm the headline and link were not changed here.
Headline and short excerpt from The Guardian — Environment, taken from its public news feed. The full story and its photos belong to The Guardian — Environment — read it at the original. RICHTVX NEWS is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with The Guardian — Environment. Corrections: legal@richtvx.news.
