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Cruises: 2010's best destinations
Adventure-seeking cruisers are rushing to see the Arctic before global warming gets a grip.
Svalbard Global Seed Vault
More pictures here>> Nestled into the rocky waste of plataberget Mountain about Svalbard's airport, the Global Seed Vault is at once startling and innocuous.
Icy polar bear melts in Copenhagen while politicians argue
Olaf StorA is a burly Norwegian with a white beard and mane much like that of the ice-sculpted polar bear standing on top of the plinth in front of the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen's Lutheran cathedral - writes Peter Kenny .