In his Arctic Circle restaurant, chef Halvar Ellingsen has made it his focus to change the misconceptions of Norwegian cuisine one guest at a time
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Greenland's largest glacial floating ice declined 42% due to global warming, scientists determine
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SS Baychimo: The unsinkable Arctic ghost ship
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A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life, and asexually produced offspring
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Even if the planet doesn't get any warmer than it is now, melting ice in Greenland could add at least 1.5 metres to the global average sea level
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Denmark's new modular patrol boats will tackle a changing Arctic – here's how the new ships will be designed
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Cruising to Nome: The first US deep water port for the Arctic to host cruise ships, military
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Norway may soon open waters in the Arctic and sub-Arctic to sea floor mining – growing demand for important minerals, including copper and nickel
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Respect existence or expect resistance – protests in Norway against wind farm on Sámi land
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United States will soon open a small diplomatic mission in Norway – only mission above Arctic Circle
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I set out on a journey to the high north of Greenland to meet the Inuit communities that brave the harshest winters in the world
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Norway takes over presidency of Arctic Council – questions about role intergovernmental body can play after Western countries suspended cooperation with Russia
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Daily tides stoked with increasingly warmer water ate a huge hole at the bottom of one of Greenland's major glaciers in the last couple of years
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Life in Ny-Ålesund, the world's northern-most research station – in pictures
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Norway irked over Sweden's silence on rocket that plunged into mountainside in Målselv – research rocket launched from Esrange Space Center near Kiruna
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Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are now losing more than three times as much ice a year as they were thirty years ago
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Playing on the edge – football in Greenland
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The Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a melting point of no return, says new study
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The temptation of high oil prices is shaking Norway's climate commitments
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Producers of the latest Mission: Impossible film have dropped their attempt to obtain permission for dozens of helicopter landings on Svalbard
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Buried deep in the permafrost, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is opening its doors to the world with the launch of a new virtual tour to mark its fifteenth anniversary
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A landscape photography and wildlife expedition to the Hornstrandir nature reserve in Iceland
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Activists block Norway's energy ministry, protesting against wind turbines built on land traditionally used by the Sámi indigenous people
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Oxford University-led study detects twenty-six types of PFAS compounds in ice around Svalbard, threatening downstream ecosystems
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In 1952, a landslide caused a tsunami that killed a Greenlandic man – some researchers think he might have been an early victim of anthropogenic warming
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A Swedish town is on the move, one building at a time – subsidence from the world's biggest iron ore mine threatens to swallow up the Arctic town of Kiruna
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Norway's Supreme Court could set a legal precedent for control of the natural resources around the strategically important Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic
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New ice core analysis shows a sharp spike in Greenland temperatures since 1995 – 1.5°C hotter than its 20th-century average, the warmest in more than 1,000 years
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In northern Sweden, EU and Swedish officials have inaugurated the first spaceport for satellite launches on the European Union mainland
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Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals has been found in Sweden – may not reach market before 10-15 years' time due to environmental risk evaluations
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A shared celebration of Orthodox Christmas deep in the Arctic, undimmed by war and the round-the-clock polar night
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Svalbard reindeer thrive as they shift diet towards popsicle-like grasses – increased plant growth due to warmer climate
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In Sweden reindeer herders say their animals are being affected by wind farms and other industry
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Esrange Space Center in Sweden has become the leading prospective candidate for Europe's first mainland satellite launch
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Research group Whale Wise are investigating how net entanglement is affecting humpback whale populations in Iceland using drones
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Greta Thunberg Foundation has donated £158,000 to cover legal costs of indigenous people in Sweden's Arctic as they battle a British mining company
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It appears both the West and Beijing itself have grossly overestimated Chinese expansion in Greenland
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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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Security services in Norway say they have arrested a university lecturer accused of working for Russia as a spy
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Driftwood floats thousands of kilometers from Siberia to Iceland, but it may drift no longer by 2060 due to climate change
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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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Clues to the near-future behaviour of a warming Greenland, and perhaps even a warming Antarctic, buried under the North Sea
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Chef Poul Andrias Ziska of Koks restaurant honed his craft in the harsh North Atlantic but has now reimagined his signature locavore cooking for a Greenlandic terroir
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Norway is extending the life of its last Arctic coal mine – will now operate until 2025 amid Europe's energy crisis
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Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least twenty-seven centimeters on its own
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Alex Honnold just led the first ascent of one of Earth's tallest Arctic sea cliffs, gathering crucial climate data along the way
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Indigenous reindeer herders fear the drive towards a more sustainable economy is destroying their traditional way of life and identity in Sweden
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Greenland is ground zero for the impacts of climate change, but it could also become ground zero for sourcing the metals needed to power the solution to the crisis
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Greenland ice sheet saw a sharp spike in the rate and extent of melting last week – eighteen billion tons of water in just three days
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Greenland sharks born long before the Industrial Revolution are still hunting Arctic waters to this day – but they face an uncertain future
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