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Climate change hits back, Svalbard coal mine flooded by melting glacier

30 Jul 2020
Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Svalbard and Jan Mayen
After days with record heat at Svalbard, the penetration of water from the above melting glacier is now flooding Norway’s only operating coal mine that supplies the country’s only coal-power plant.
The Independent Barents Observer / Thomas Nilsen
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