NASA scientists to study ice, snow and melt ponds in the Arctic Ocean during the warmer summer months to better understand melting sea ice
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Overnight in the most remote camp on Earth
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'She's perfect and she's beautiful': Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields
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With Stalinist architecture, a prominent bust of Lenin and posters extolling the motherland, Pyramiden is the abandoned Soviet mining town in Norway's Arctic
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Isolated group of polar bears found surviving in south-east Greenland thanks to freshwater discharge from glaciers
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Canada and Denmark reach settlement over disputed Arctic island, sources say
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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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NATO troops conducted a routine war exercise in the Arctic. This year felt different.
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For asylum seekers, Norway is a sanctuary but even in remote towns, Muslim refugees say they face surveillance and threats
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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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Greenland heads to the polls on Tuesday in snap elections which could have major consequences for international interests in the Arctic
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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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Denmark has committed to spending 1.5 billion Danish crowns on defence in the Arctic, utilising long-range drones to survey the area
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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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With growing tensions in the Arctic region, the Faroe Islands are now receiving more attention from superpowers
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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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