The construction of two energy islands off the coast of Denmark is being sped up to help wean the country off Russian fossil fuels
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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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Were the Norse the first to settle the Azores? Seafarers may have come and gone from lush archipelago more than 1000 years ago
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Butterflies released in Finland contained parasitic wasps, with more wasps inside – introduction of Glanville fritillary leads to emergence of three new species on island of Sottunga
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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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Plans for an artificial island to house 35,000 people and protect the port of Copenhagen from rising sea levels have been approved by Danish MPs
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Galápagos rock formation Darwin’s Arch collapses from erosion
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Swedish officials have joined Danish critics in registering concerns that an island-building plan, a signature test of Copenhagen's development model, could have risks
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How coral atolls get their gorgeous ring shapes
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Denmark's government has agreed to take a majority stake in a £25bn artificial 'energy island' which is to be built 80km offshore
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Göteborg Film Festival is inviting one cinema fan to spend seven days on an isolated lighthouse island, with only movies and the sea for company
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When travel restrictions stopped bird-watchers from visiting the Swedish island of Stora Karlsö, hidden ecosystem dynamics were revealed
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Faroe Islands are set to open an under-sea roundabout – the underwater tunnels connect the islands of Streymoy and Eysturoy in a network some 11km long
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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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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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Russia filed a protest to Oslo after Norwegian coastguards detained a Russian trawler near a remote chain of islands in the Arctic
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Two German tourists killed in Arctic avalanche – part of a guided snowmobile tour of the island of Spitsbergen in Norway's Svalbard archipelago
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Board-game piece from period of first Viking raid found on Lindisfarne – small glass crown thought to be rare archaeological link to raiders
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov requests a meeting with Norwegian authorities to remove limitations on Russian activity on Svalbard
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Svalbard: Minute By Minute – Norway's state-owned NRK is about to air its longest and most ambitious show yet
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Denmark plans $30 billion offshore wind island that could power ten million homes
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This island of Minos: Crete in the Bronze Age
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How the US betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster
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Ringed on all sides by the UK but not actually part of it, residents of the Isle of Man value their independence
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Indonesia plans to move its capital to the island of Borneo
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Twice a year this floating library delivers thousands of books to the remote islands of Stockholm's archipelago
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The last days of John Allen Chau, the American missionary who was killed in November 2018 by the uncontacted tribe on North Sentinel Island
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Over two hundred dead reindeer found on Norway's Arctic Svalbard
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Solar-powered barge gobbles up trash in Finland's waterways
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In the world’s northernmost town, temperatures have risen by 4°C, devastating homes, wildlife and even the cemetery. Will the rest of the planet heed its warning?
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Why Plymouth has a population of zero, despite being the de jure capital of Montserrat
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Blow up: How half a tonne of cocaine transformed the life of an island
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A journey to the "Disappointment Islands", a remote area of Polynesia that hasn't had a visitor in decades
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Widow, 81, sole resident of remote island disputed by South Korea and Japan
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North Sentinel Island: Uncontacted tribes’ ‘right to be left alone’ doesn’t gel with broader human rights
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The island that never stops apologising
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A very brief history of the Manx language
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The country's first climate change casualties? Scientists predict Tangier Island could be uninhabitable within twenty-five years
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Island birds would likely beat their mainland relatives in a battle of wits
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Tales from the far-flung Faroes — The people who live on remote rocks in the North Atlantic
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