Physical protective barriers have been built to hold back avalanches – but Svalbard has also turned to tech, with the help of a telecom firm and the University of Svalbard
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Arctic foxes were almost hunted to extinction in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Can projects to breed and feed them help this native species return for good?
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As tourists discover Finland's Santa Claus Village, some locals call for rules to control the masses
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Grímsey, set some 40km off Iceland's northern coast, is home to one of Europe's most remote settlements and a thriving seabird population
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Canadian defence strategy and issues - Procurement disasters, the Arctic and alliances
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Why did Norway try to take Greenland from Denmark in 1931?
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Natural sinks of forests and peat were key to Finland's ambitious target to be carbon neutral by 2035 – but now, the land has started emitting more greenhouse gases than it stores
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Following a family mystery to Iceland's remotest village – in his grandfather's footsteps, Oliver Smith heads to a tiny off-grid community at the tip of the Hornstrandir peninsula
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The Place of Tides by James Rebanks review – a warming tale of gathering eiderdown in Norway
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China's Arctic dreams make the Norwegian port of Kirkenes a global prize – and an unlikely hotbed of East-West rivalry
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A voyage like no other, from Norway to Canada through the Northwest Passage – to raise awareness of the six planetary tipping points in the Arctic
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Seal, whale, reindeer – and plankton? When your restaurant is high in the Arctic Circle you have to get pretty creative with your fine dining.
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How to build an Arctic airport – why airport construction in Greenland is (quite literally) booming
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Discovery of a new primitive microcontinent between Greenland and Canada could help scientists understand how microcontinents form
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Set in an otherworldly landscape surrounded by glaciers, forests and lakes – how the Arctic town of Bodø became Europe's Capital of Culture
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Ernest Shackleton: Famed explorer's Endurance ship gets extra protection
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Pigeons in the Arctic: Part III: Sir John Ross’s 1850-51 search for the lost Franklin Bay expedition
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The last remaining privately owned land on the Svalbard archipelago in Norway, "with significant environmental, scientific and economic importance" is on sale, for €300 million
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What happened to the Nautilus?
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European Commission will open office in Greenland, made strategically important by rare resources and melting ice
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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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