Svalbard in the Arctic spends many months of the year in complete darkness, an unrelenting frozen winter with temperatures down to minus 40 Celsius. Some organisms – such as the compass plant – have adapted an ingenious method to survive in these extremes, ready for when the sun finally reappears.
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