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URSY.NEWS / The Guardian / 19 Oct 2026

Tap water no longer drinkable in Norwegian town as climate-related thawing releases heavy metals

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Warning for other Arctic communities as residents told not to use water in Longyearbyen in Svalbard, one of the fastest-warming places in the worldResidents of a remote town in Norway that is in one of the fastest-warming places in the world have been told they must no longer drink tap water due to heavy metal contamination that scientists have linked to the thawing permafrost.Longyearbyen, in th…

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