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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National security or legal niceties? Norway picks a path – closing down opportunities for members of the authoritarian axis is not always as easy as it looks.
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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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Norwegian government has called off a plan to sell the last privately owned piece of land on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard in order to prevent its acquisition by China
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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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Zacklabe: a site for great up-to-date visualizations regarding climate change, especially about Arctic and Antarctic
Zacklabe is a site, created by the climate scientist and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researcher, Zachary Labe, that has many great visualizations of data regarding climate...
Zacklabe is a site, created by the climate scientist and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researcher, Zachary Labe, that has many great visualizations of data regarding climate change, especially about the Arctic and Antarctic. It gathers its data from scientific observations, which are cited. You can access the visualizations following this link. Here are the visualizations, with many graphics for each entry.
Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability
Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration
Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness
Arctic Temperatures
Antarctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration
Climate Change Indicators
Climate model projections compared to observations in the Arctic
Global Sea Ice Extent and Concentration
Polar Climate Change FiguresNote: I briefly created a similar topic, but it was only about a single link from here. I deleted because I realized it's much better to create a thread about the site in general.
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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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Inside the brazen Arctic trip supplying Vladimir Putin’s flagship energy scheme
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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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Alexei Navalny disappears for three weeks; reappears at isolated Arctic penal colony
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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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How Greenland’s mineral wealth made it a geopolitical battleground
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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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US opened its northernmost diplomatic station in Tromsø, Norway on Friday – highlights increased importance of the Arctic region for Washington
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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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Russia may be planning to test a nuclear-powered missile
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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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