GitHub Archive Program: The journey of the world’s open source code to the Arctic
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Climate change may cause extreme waves in the Arctic
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What a mass of rotting carcasses taught scientists – when 323 reindeer were killed by lightning on a remote Norwegian plateau, their bodies were left for nature to take its course
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Siberian wildfires swell amid historic heatwave, as highs of 38°C reported north of the arctic circle
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US reopens consulate in Greenland as part of a recent push from the White House to expand presence in the Arctic to curb Russian and Chinese influence
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Strategic hot spot Greenland sparks global tug-of-war – US has always seen Greenland under its sphere of influence, but the island's increasing independence is threatening that
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Sweden suffers one of its strongest earthquakes at an Arctic iron ore mine – quake measured magnitude 4.1 and forced the mine to close
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Greenland's Grand Canyon – UMass Amherst and the University of Copenhagen's Centre for Ice & Climate propose a new mechanism for how the megacanyon formed
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Can someone ELI5 arctic tipping points or how close we are to runaway climate change?
As the various Arctic climate feedbacks show, we are fast approaching the stage when climate change will be playing the tune for us while we stand by and watch helplessly, with our reductions in...
As the various Arctic climate feedbacks show, we are fast approaching the stage when climate change will be playing the tune for us while we stand by and watch helplessly, with our reductions in CO2 emissions having no effect in the face of, say, runaway emissions of methane.
from this article: https://e360.yale.edu/features/as_arctic_ocean_ice_disappears_global_climate_impacts_intensify_wadhams
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Russia's ambassador to Denmark has accused Washington of provoking confrontation in the Arctic in order to achieve dominance in the region
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Norway has come under fire from environmental groups who accuse it of caving to oil companies over a decision to shift an Arctic no-go zone
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Sámi herders won back exclusive rights to hunting and fishing in their area of the Arctic – but that has led to heightened tensions between them and local Swedes
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Greenland wary of US plans for aid projects in its territory – politicians say expected announcement of $12m must not have conditions attached
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Russia filed a protest to Oslo after Norwegian coastguards detained a Russian trawler near a remote chain of islands in the Arctic
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Scientists confirm dramatic melting of Greenland ice sheet – loss largely due to high pressure zone not taken into account by climate models
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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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Greenland's melting ice raised global sea level by 2.2mm in two months – analysis of satellite data reveals astounding loss of 600bn tons of ice last summer
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Henning Larsen has revealed plans for The Arctic University Museum of Norway, which will evoke a cascade of glass beacons on the coast of Tromsø
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Ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica is tracking the worst-case climate warming scenario set out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scientists say
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Underwater photographer Tobias Friedrich took a unique look at the underside of Greenland's icebergs
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Greenpeace asks Norway's supreme court to rule on Arctic oil – a case that could block the petroleum industry's expansion plans
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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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Svalbard: Minute By Minute – Norway's state-owned NRK is about to air its longest and most ambitious show yet
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Greenpeace loses Norway Arctic oil lawsuit appeal – Oslo appeals court approved Norway's plans for more oil exploration in the Arctic
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Supreme Court has granted Sámi in the far north the sole right to manage small-game hunting on its land – and not the Swedish state
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Norway made an outspoken right-wing lawmaker who once called wind turbines 'white monsters' its oil and energy minister
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A mayor in Norway's Arctic looks to China to reinvent his frontier town
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People in Canada’s remote Arctic capital are obsessed with Amazon Prime
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Denmark approves new US consulate in Greenland – part of a broader move by Washington to expand its diplomatic and commercial presence in Greenland and the Arctic
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When will the Arctic see its first ice-free summer?
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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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Greenland's ice sheet melting seven times faster than in 1990s – scale and speed of loss much higher than predicted
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In Sweden's Arctic, ice atop snow leaves reindeer starving
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Denmark has for the first time put mineral-rich Greenland top of its national security agenda, ahead of terrorism and cybercrime
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Never mind how many electric cars are sold there – Norway has to change tack and end prospecting for new oil reserves
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Climate campaigners are taking Norway's government back to court to oppose its plans to open the Arctic for oil drilling
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Buried in ice - The Franklin Expedition cemetary
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We can save the Arctic if we follow the Nordic countries' lead
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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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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has been named one of the most important projects in the world over the last fifty years
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Sea 'boiling' with methane discovered in Siberia: 'No one has ever recorded anything like this before'
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Norway's Bodø named a European Capital of Culture for 2024
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US Navy Surface Action Group consisting of a cruiser, three destroyers, and a helicopter strike squadron are operating in the Arctic waters surrounding Iceland
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Norway's last coal miners fight for survival against climate policy
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The tiny algae at ground zero of Greenland's melting glaciers
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European regulators have ordered immediate checks on recently delivered versions of some Airbus helicopters after a crash in Arctic Norway last month
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How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2019
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Swedish mountain loses highest peak title due to global heating – glacier at Kebnekaise's summit has shrunk amid soaring Arctic temperatures
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International science expedition reached the North Pole with the Norwegian coastguard's vessel KV Svalbard
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Arctic sea ice loaded with microplastics
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