World's northernmost permanent settlement, Longyearbyen, is estimated to be heating at six times the global average – so what is being done to save it?
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Temperatures have risen faster in the Arctic region than elsewhere on earth – the impact of climate change is being felt on Greenland's local way of life
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How this Florida town became the sea sponge capital of the world | Big Business
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Once seen as experimental, a commercial wine industry in regions just below the Arctic circle is taking advantage of the warmer summers
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How sand made from crushed glass rebuilds Louisiana’s shrinking coast | World Wide Waste
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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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‘We're making wine in Norway’ – climate change is pushing vineyards further north and south towards the poles
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Is Denmark Europe's most sustainable wine destination?
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This is what 3°C of global warming looks like
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Ground temperatures in Siberia reach extremes of 48°C, air temperatures reach 30°C
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Lapland town of Salla highlights climate crisis with 2032 Olympics campaign – tongue-in-cheek promotional video seeks to highlight alarming climate variations
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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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Ecocredits, on how to use capitalism to solve global warming
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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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Gas hydrate dissociation linked to contemporary ocean warming in the southern hemisphere
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Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return
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The great climate migration has begun
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The South Pole is warming fast. Very fast.
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In nearly every part of the world, heatwaves have been increasing in frequency and duration since the 1950s
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Climate change: The South Pole feels the heat, as warming over the Antarctic continent took place at three times the global rate since 1989
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Bill Gates-backed carbon capture plant does the work of forty million trees
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Hottest Arctic temperature record probably set with 100°F/37°C reading in Siberia
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Climate change and coronavirus: Five charts about the biggest carbon crash
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Sweden's climate solution is now the Sámi people's problem – winters are becoming warmer and climate change is making conditions for the reindeer unsafe
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Summers are now twice as long as winters in all Australian capital cities, report finds
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Now even Norwegians are skiing indoors – a country that's symbolic of mountains, snow and winter sports adapts to a warming world with its first indoor-skiing center
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“Abrupt thaw” affects five percent of Arctic permafrost, but it could double the amount of warming it contributes
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Oslo may see just fifty days of snow deeper than 30cm in 2050, down from eighty days today and 140 days in 1900
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Norway records warmest ever January day at 19C – the main cause for the record-breaking temperatures at this particular site was from a foehn wind
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Snow machines and fleece blankets: Inside the ski industry's battle with climate change
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NOAA's 2019 Arctic Report Card has been released - Dramatic, disruptive and rapid Arctic warming is threatening both ecosystems and livelihoods
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See how global warming has changed the world since your childhood
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UN Environment Climate Change Report
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Sweden's indigenous Sámi people threatened by climate change – global warming is putting the lifestyles of Arctic indigenous people under threat
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Climate change: Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather for UN talks
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Icelanders can't remember a hotter summer – it's nice, and worrying
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Life after reading "The Uninhabitable Earth"
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As warming temperatures dramatically reshape Iceland's landscape businesses and the government are spending millions for survival and profit
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Quora: 31,000 scientists who denied Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW)
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Scientists are memorializing Iceland's first glacier lost to global warming with a poignant letter to the future
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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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Antarctica: Journey to the heart of global warming
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Scientists amazed as Canadian permafrost thaws seventy years early
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The methane detectives: On the trail of a global warming mystery
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A world without clouds
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Climate change enters its blood-sucking phase - as winters grow warmer in North America, thirsty ticks are on the move
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Wallace Broecker, the geophysicist who popularized the term 'global warming,' has died
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Time to panic - The planet is getting warmer in catastrophic ways. And fear may be the only thing that saves us.
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Earth marks fourth hottest year on record as Congress opens climate hearings
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'A red screaming alarm bell' to banish fossil fuels: NASA confirms last five years hottest on record
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