Physical protective barriers have been built to hold back avalanches – but Svalbard has also turned to tech, with the help of a telecom firm and the University of Svalbard
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Russia launches a rescue operation after a storm damages two oil tankers in the Kerch Strait
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An American man has died in south Iceland after ice collapsed while he was on a group tour to a glacier
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Firefighters in Canada battle to save Jasper's buildings, infrastructure as wildfire engulfs town
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Greece gripped by wildfires, national park threatened along with people and towns
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Smoke will keep pouring into the US as long as fires are burning in Canada. Here’s why they aren’t being put out.
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Mystery divers rescued near Polish energy sites in the middle of the night offer dubious explanation, and vanish
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Private firefighting crews in California spark conflict after alleged illegal backfires in Glass Fire
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Two German tourists killed in Arctic avalanche – part of a guided snowmobile tour of the island of Spitsbergen in Norway's Svalbard archipelago
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Rescuers search for survivors in deadly Indonesian landslide
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Flash floods and landslides kill at least twenty-seven on Indonesian island of Sumatra
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Almost 200 missing in volcano disaster. Guatemala releases official figures as a fresh eruption disrupts rescue work at the Fuego volcano
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Rescuers battle boiling ash to recover Fuego's dead. In San Miguel Los Lotes close to Guatemala’s most active volcano, firefighters are working hard, but hope is slim.
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