Northern Sámi, a language spoken in the Arctic, has more than 300 words for snow and a special word for "frightened reindeer" – can it survive in a warmer world?
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Norway and the Sámi people end a dispute over Europe's largest onshore wind farm – deal includes a future-oriented solution that safeguards reindeer farming rights
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Norway gives Arctic foxes a helping hand as climate change and habitat loss disrupt food chains and lead to starvation
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Oil firms forced to consider full climate effects of new drilling, following landmark Norwegian court ruling
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Sámi rights activists in Norway charged over protests against wind farm affecting reindeer herding
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The tragic story of this famous meteorite and the boy who fought the museum that took everything from him
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Norway's Arctic deep sea mining plan will inevitably sink – industrialising the ocean floor in the middle of a climate crisis is not only reckless, it's cruel
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Norway is likely to become the first country in the world to move forward with the controversial practice of commercial-scale deep-sea mining
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Reindeer combine sleeping and digesting, Norwegian researchers found after extracting reindeer brain data
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Reindeer noir, the Finnish crime sub-genre influenced by Santa's home town of Rovaniemi
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There are few more thrilling places to ski tour than the Lyngen Alps, a 55-mile chain of peaks that punctuates Norway's fragmented northerly fringes
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Norway's minority government and two opposition parties have agreed to allow seabed mineral exploration in the Arctic region
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In a historic feat, Catalan adventurer and elite kayaker Aniol Serrasolses has conquered the world's highest glacier waterfall drop in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway
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Deep in the Arctic permafrost, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is protecting Africa's food supply
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Since 1978 ice shelves in North Greenland have lost more than 35% of their total volume, with three of them collapsing completely
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Life on Europe's only open Schengen border with Russia – in the Barents Sea, Russia maintains cordial relations with NATO neighbours over fishing rights
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Visitors from across the globe travel to this remote Scandinavian safari camp, despite the fact there's not really any wildlife to see
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The war in Ukraine is heightening tensions between Russians and Norwegians living on Svalbard | Focus on Europe
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The pristine Tana River, bordering Norway and Finland, is littered with the rotting corpses of an invasive Pacific salmon species
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Norway wants to begin deep sea mining in the Arctic – here is why it's a bad idea
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Sweden is leading in a battle to be the first European space base outside Russia to launch a satellite into orbit
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Rubaboo - Pemmican stew of Canadian Mounties
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Indigenous Sámi activist set up camp outside the Norwegian parliament to protest against wind turbines built on land traditionally used by reindeer herders
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Dozens of reindeer have been killed for crossing into Russia, as Norway fixes Arctic fence to stop the Sámi herds crossing the border
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Mapping arctic foxes’ spectacular solo journeys
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New simulation based study warns against risks of ‘time-traveling pathogens’ in thawing Arctic permafrost
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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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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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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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