In 1984, the Nordic Gene Bank (now NordGen) created a backup seed repository in an abandoned coal mine near the Norwegian city of Longyearbyen (in a steel container inside coal mine No. 3), but ...

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While the people of the UK are looking forward to an extra hour in bed in the morning as the clocks are about to go back on October 27 - a settlement in Norway has waved goodbye to the sun ...

Since then, Tio’s has served as a kind of canteen for Longyearbyen locals, echoing the mess halls that once served the same coal miners who settled this town in the 20th century. A hot lunch ...

And coal." He is showing us this subterranean ... what hope for everywhere else? The Deputy Mayor of Longyearbyen, Stein-Ove Johannessen, agrees that a new green strategy should have been ...

It's an agency seller's market this yearContrary to what you might expect, the fact that a large number of agencies are for sale does not seem to have depressed... Catching up with Accor's two new ...

The attack occurred at a campsite near Longyearbyen, the main town of the island in the Svalbard archipelago. The bear was then shot and found dead at the local airport. Experts say polar bears ...

Longyearbyen packs a punch when it comes to attractions. The Svalbard Museum offers a comprehensive insight into the archipelago's history, from its early exploration to the coal mining era ...