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Imperiled City to Move 2 Miles East

Kiruna, Sweden, threatened by iron ore mine that sustains it

(Newser) - The city of Kiruna, Sweden, is having the ground yanked out from under it, literally. Over the next 20 years, the city, which sits some 90 miles north of the Arctic Circle, will move itself two miles east, in a relocation effort the Wall Street Journal calls "virtually unprecedented....

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