Arctic archipelago turns the page on its mining past

Former Svea Mine, Norway (AFP) Oct 26, 2023

At the old Svea mine in the Arctic, broken railway tracks overgrown with weeds lead nowhere. Of the hundred buildings that once made up the town, there's almost nothing left. Coal brought fortune to Norway's Svalbard archipelago, but that bonanza became a curse for the remote group of islands, now the most harmful fossil energy for the climate. Svalbard, today home to 3,000 people and lo