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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Swedish 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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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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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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NASA scientists to study ice, snow and melt ponds in the Arctic Ocean during the warmer summer months to better understand melting sea ice
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Overnight in the most remote camp on Earth
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'She's perfect and she's beautiful': Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields
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With Stalinist architecture, a prominent bust of Vladimir Lenin and posters extolling the motherland, Pyramiden is the abandoned Soviet mining town in Norway's Arctic
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Isolated group of polar bears found surviving in south-east Greenland thanks to freshwater discharge from glaciers
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Canada and Denmark reach settlement over disputed Arctic island, sources say
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Norway is vowing to help Europe turn away from Russian gas, but that's set off a political battle with the left-wing opposition that rejects expanded gas exploration
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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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Norway's breeding programme sees arctic foxes return in high numbers – foxes still listed as under threat of becoming extinct in Scandinavia
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As the world experiences sea level rise, Iceland's waters are falling – and flowing to the other side of the planet
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For asylum seekers, Norway is a sanctuary but even in remote towns, Muslim refugees say they face surveillance and threats
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The future of sea level rise is being written underneath Antarctica and Greenland
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UN experts call for Sweden to scrap a planned iron ore mine – toxic waste and other contaminants would cause 'irreversible risks' to land used by the Sámi
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Photojournalist Giuia Besana visits the world's northernmost priest who runs the Svalbard Church in Longyearbyen, in Norway's Svalbard archipelago
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Herders in Lapland are struggling to locate thousands of reindeer that have run away after warm weather left the food they graze on covered by a layer of ice
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Norway's supreme court stripped two wind farms of their operating licences in a case that could boost the legal rights of the country's indigenous Sámi people
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Trans-Alaska pipeline under threat from thawing permafrost
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Housing in Alaska can’t survive climate change. This group is trying a new model.
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With climate change emerging as a primary issue in this month's Norwegian parliamentary election, there are signs people are questioning the country's reliance on crude oil
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Scientists last month set foot on a tiny island off the coast of Greenland which they say is the world's northernmost point of land and was revealed by shifting pack ice
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For the first time on record precipitation on Saturday at the summit of Greenland, roughly two miles above sea level, fell as rain and not snow
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Sweden's only remaining mountaintop glacier lost another two metres in height in the past year due to rising air temperatures driven by climate change
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Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other blazes combined
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Third-biggest ice loss for Greenland in a single day since 1950 – rapid melt followed warm air being trapped by a change in atmospheric circulation patterns
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Smarter Every Day's 'Nuclear Submarine Deep Dive' completed playlist
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Ground temperatures in Siberia reach extremes of 48°C, air temperatures reach 30°C
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Large amounts of mercury discovered in Greenland's glaciers – the heavy metal raises concerns for the health of indigenous communities
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Norwegian climate activists have asked the European Court of Human Rights to rule against Norway's plans for more oil drilling in the Arctic
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