Adventure-seeking cruisers are rushing to see the Arctic before global warming gets a grip.

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.

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 .