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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is supposed to protect all of the world's seeds, but climate change has other ideas. The vault was built inside the Arctic Circle to protect a diverse seed collection from natural disasters,...

1. The curious cold spot that has scientists thinking their worst fears have come true: It reads like something out of a bad action movie: while temperatures climb around the globe, a single, ominous cold spot in the middle...

1. The curious cold spot that has scientists thinking their worst fears have come true: It reads like something out of a bad action movie: while temperatures climb around the globe, a single, ominous cold spot in the middle...

Unless you’re a climate scientist, you probably don’t care very much about permafrost. But you should. The perpetually frozen ground that accounts for a quarter of the Northern hemisphere is warming at an increasing -...