Norway is vowing to help Europe turn away from Russian gas, but that's set off a political battle with the left-wing opposition that rejects expanded gas exploration
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Why did the US military dig a tunnel in the Alaskan tundra? What is the tunnel used for now?
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Norway's breeding programme sees arctic foxes return in high numbers – foxes still listed as under threat of becoming extinct in Scandinavia
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As the world experiences sea level rise, Iceland's waters are falling – and flowing to the other side of the planet
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The future of sea level rise is being written underneath Antarctica and Greenland
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UN experts call for Sweden to scrap a planned iron ore mine – toxic waste and other contaminants would cause 'irreversible risks' to land used by the Sámi
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Photojournalist Giuia Besana visits the world's northernmost priest who runs the Svalbard Church in Longyearbyen, in Norway's Svalbard archipelago
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Herders in Lapland are struggling to locate thousands of reindeer that have run away after warm weather left the food they graze on covered by a layer of ice
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Norway's supreme court stripped two wind farms of their operating licences in a case that could boost the legal rights of the country's indigenous Sámi people
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Trans-Alaska pipeline under threat from thawing permafrost
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Housing in Alaska can’t survive climate change. This group is trying a new model.
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With climate change emerging as a primary issue in this month's Norwegian parliamentary election, there are signs people are questioning the country's reliance on crude oil
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Scientists last month set foot on a tiny island off the coast of Greenland which they say is the world's northernmost point of land and was revealed by shifting pack ice
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For the first time on record precipitation on Saturday at the summit of Greenland, roughly two miles above sea level, fell as rain and not snow
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Sweden's only remaining mountaintop glacier lost another two metres in height in the past year due to rising air temperatures driven by climate change
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Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other blazes combined
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Third-biggest ice loss for Greenland in a single day since 1950 – rapid melt followed warm air being trapped by a change in atmospheric circulation patterns
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Smarter Every Day's 'Nuclear Submarine Deep Dive' completed playlist
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Ground temperatures in Siberia reach extremes of 48°C, air temperatures reach 30°C
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Large amounts of mercury discovered in Greenland's glaciers – the heavy metal raises concerns for the health of indigenous communities
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Norwegian climate activists have asked the European Court of Human Rights to rule against Norway's plans for more oil drilling in the Arctic
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Roads into Norway will get new signs with the country name also written in the indigenous Sámi language depending on the region
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How not to deal with murder in space
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Building electronics that can survive under Greenland's ice sheet – meet the Cryoegg, designed to follow the melting going on beneath the ice sheet
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Climate Crisis Font shrinks in response to Arctic sea ice data
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US Air Force is preparing to deploy bombers to Norway for the first time – detachment of B-1Bs, accompanied by 200+ personnel, is set to arrive at Ørland Main Air Station
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Sámi reindeer herders file lawsuit against Norway windfarm – indigenous communities say planned Øyfjellet turbines will interfere with migration paths
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Norway's supreme court has approved government plans for oil exploration in the Barents Sea, rejecting a lawsuit by environmental groups
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An invasion of king crabs from Russia into Norway created a lucrative fishing industry – and difficult choices
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An earth system model shows self-sustained melting of permafrost even if all man-made GHG emissions stop in 2020
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Buildings and residents testament to the rich seams of history and identity of Kiruna in Sweden are ousted in favour of the profit-laden iron ore seams lurking beneath
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Growing number of unexpected arrivals in Arctic waters around Greenland – shrinking sea ice has fast-tracked a race among powers for control over resources and waterways
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Greenland's ice sheet melting seven times faster than in 1990s
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A big chunk of ice has broken away from the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf, Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, in north-east Greenland – ejected section covers about 110 square km
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Polar bear kills man in Norway's Arctic Svalbard islands – experts say polar bears' hunting grounds have diminished as the Arctic ice sheet melts
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Norway plans to drill for oil in untouched Arctic areas – critics say plan for fields off Svalbard threatens ecosystem and relations with Russia
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Is the most northern part of Iceland still there?
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Buried deep in the ice is the GitHub code vault — humanity's safeguard against devastation
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One woman, four men bound for the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard on a four-month expedition that covered more than 4,500 miles
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GitHub Archive Program: The journey of the world’s open source code to the Arctic
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Climate change may cause extreme waves in the Arctic
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What a mass of rotting carcasses taught scientists – when 323 reindeer were killed by lightning on a remote Norwegian plateau, their bodies were left for nature to take its course
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Siberian wildfires swell amid historic heatwave, as highs of 38°C reported north of the arctic circle
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Sweden suffers one of its strongest earthquakes at an Arctic iron ore mine – quake measured magnitude 4.1 and forced the mine to close
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Greenland's Grand Canyon – UMass Amherst and the University of Copenhagen's Centre for Ice & Climate propose a new mechanism for how the megacanyon formed
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Can someone ELI5 arctic tipping points or how close we are to runaway climate change?
As the various Arctic climate feedbacks show, we are fast approaching the stage when climate change will be playing the tune for us while we stand by and watch helplessly, with our reductions in...
As the various Arctic climate feedbacks show, we are fast approaching the stage when climate change will be playing the tune for us while we stand by and watch helplessly, with our reductions in CO2 emissions having no effect in the face of, say, runaway emissions of methane.
from this article: https://e360.yale.edu/features/as_arctic_ocean_ice_disappears_global_climate_impacts_intensify_wadhams
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Russia's ambassador to Denmark has accused Washington of provoking confrontation in the Arctic in order to achieve dominance in the region
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Norway has come under fire from environmental groups who accuse it of caving to oil companies over a decision to shift an Arctic no-go zone
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Sámi herders won back exclusive rights to hunting and fishing in their area of the Arctic – but that has led to heightened tensions between them and local Swedes
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Greenland wary of US plans for aid projects in its territory – politicians say expected announcement of $12m must not have conditions attached
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