Often referred to as “the gold of the Arctic”, cloudberries grow in marshlands, boreal forests and along the coastline of northern Scandinavia, Northwest Russia and throughout the northern hemisphere: for the cloudberry to ripen, temperatures should be above 10° C, combined with little rain. Over the last 50 years, temperatures at Svalbard have risen 3-5° C, a dramatic warming: the Arctic is warming almost four times faster than the rest of the globe. July 2023 became the warmest ever at the Svalbard archipelago, with an average temperature above 10° Celsius.
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