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Svalbard's Climate Change Fight

Our World · Season 2022 · Episode 22
Our World travels to the fastest-warming place on earth: Svalbard. Deep inside the Arctic Circle, it is home to the world's northernmost settlement, Longyearbyen, which is estimated to be heating at six times the global average. People living here have a front-row seat for the climate crisis - melting glaciers, rising sea levels, avalanches, and landslides. Add to this an energy crisis in Europe fuelled by the war in Ukraine, which many experts believe is now undermining the fight against climate change. Nick Beake finds out what is being done to try to save Svalbard as we know it.

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Season
2022
Episode
22
Air Date
28/Oct/2022
Air Time
18:30
Runtime
30 min

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Our World travels to the fastest-warming place on earth: Svalbard. Deep inside the Arctic Circle, it is home to the world's northernmost settlement, Longyearbyen, which is estimated to be heating at six times the global average. People living here have a front-row seat for the climate crisis - melting glaciers, rising sea levels, avalanches, and landslides. Add to this an energy crisis in Europe fuelled by the war in Ukraine, which many experts believe is now undermining the fight against climate change. Nick Beake finds out what is being done to try to save Svalbard as we know it.

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