The scientists say their experiment in the Svalbard archipelago could work just as well elsewhere.
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Dr. CORELL: Yes, we were in Svalbard, which is this island group that we used to call Spitzberg.
Serosurvey for Toxoplasma gondii in arctic foxes and possible sources of infection in the high Arctic of Svalbard.
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The creature's partial skull was dug up last summer in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard by a Norwegian-led team.
Then, in 1964, a double sheet of plywood which might have belonged to the aircraft was found near Svalbard.
It had been investigating the area between Svalbard and Greenland, known as the Fram Strait, named after Nansen's ship.
And as ever in the Arctic, exploring Svalbard beyond its somewhat scruffy settlements carries strong echoes of the past.
Group leader Michael "Spike" Reid, 29, from Plymouth, was one of five people mauled by the animal in Svalbard on 5 August.
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In August 2007, I traveled to Greenland from Svalbard across the North Atlantic in a Russian double-hulled former spy vessel.
It has already enabled the establishment of a seed bank containing 1.1 million varieties that opened in Svalbard, Norway, in 2008.
In Svalbard, life is reduced to some of its most stirring elements, in the process evoking the Arctic North of popular imagination.
Fortunately, Svalbard is one of Europe's most exhilarating destinations for adventure-based tourism.
Its estimated length exceeds that of another large pliosaur, dubbed "The Monster", which was uncovered in Svalbard a year earlier than this one.
The report found that some native Arctic species have also benefited from climate change, including wild reindeer on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
Alex Hartley and 18 volunteers excavated about six tonnes of material from an island exposed by a glacier on the Svalbard peninsula in Norway.
One attacked the box and the Svalbard islands' deputy governor said the crew broke regulations because they looked "like they are disturbing the animals".
For all the magic inherent in Svalbard's vital statistics, the main settlement of Longyearbyen speaks powerfully of humankind's troubled relationship with the Arctic environment.
Why did the US destroy the gene bank in Iraq while Monsanto is investing billions in a global gene bank under the ice on Svalbard island?
Svalbard once stood on the outermost limits of the known world and was a launching pad for some of the more picaresque tales of polar exploration.
During January, other national seed banks supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) began packing and shipping duplicate collections that will be stored at Svalbard.
With labor costs continuing to soar in production hubs like Svalbard, Norway and Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland, price hikes were all but inevitable, predicted many Wall Street analysts.
It has a research station in the Svalbard archipelago, the northernmost part of Norway, and is building a sister ship to the Xue Long, to go into service in 2014.
Sixty percent of Svalbard's territory is covered by glaciers.
Simply travelling to the icy plains of Svalbard, however, and searching for polar-bear droppings was not practical, because such droppings might have become contaminated after they had left the animal that produced them.
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Deep inside the Arctic Circle, far closer to the North Pole than to Oslo, Svalbard is at once one of Europe's last intact wilderness areas and the world's most accessible slice of the polar North.
Throughout the Svalbard archipelago, polar bears are protected, but in the remote village of Ittoqqorrtoormiit on the east coast of Greenland, they are hunted for meat under license and within strict limits set out by the government.
Wild reindeer, Arctic fox and polar bear are a regular presence in the town's hinterland, even as Svalbard is littered with reminders of the hunting expeditions which for centuries drove many Arctic species to the brink of extinction.
While these may have a certain appeal in and of themselves, the real attraction of these activities is as a means for exploring the inner and uninhabited reaches of Svalbard, a territory with less than 50km of roads.
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