The Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a melting point of no return, says new study ~enviro climate change Article 740 words 5 votes
The temptation of high oil prices is shaking Norway's climate commitments ~enviro climate change Article 509 words 3 votes
Producers of the latest Mission: Impossible film have dropped their attempt to obtain permission for dozens of helicopter landings on Svalbard ~movies Article 869 words 3 votes
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 ~science biology Article 865 words 9 votes
A landscape photography and wildlife expedition to the Hornstrandir nature reserve in Iceland ~hobbies Video 13:27, published Feb 27 2023 4 votes
Activists block Norway's energy ministry, protesting against wind turbines built on land traditionally used by the Sámi indigenous people ~enviro energy.renewable Article 241 words 4 votes
Oxford University-led study detects twenty-six types of PFAS compounds in ice around Svalbard, threatening downstream ecosystems ~enviro water.melt pollution.water Article 408 words 6 votes
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 ~enviro climate change Article 861 words 2 votes
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 ~life Article 1005 words 6 votes
Norway's Supreme Court could set a legal precedent for control of the natural resources around the strategically important Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic ~news norway.svalbard latvia Article 446 words 4 votes
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 ~enviro climate change Article 724 words 6 votes
In northern Sweden, EU and Swedish officials have inaugurated the first spaceport for satellite launches on the European Union mainland ~space satellites Article 448 words 4 votes
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 ~enviro energy.renewable Article 34 words 5 votes
A shared celebration of Orthodox Christmas deep in the Arctic, undimmed by war and the round-the-clock polar night ~humanities religion Article 1037 words 6 votes
Svalbard reindeer thrive as they shift diet towards popsicle-like grasses – increased plant growth due to warmer climate ~enviro climate change Article 710 words 3 votes
In Sweden reindeer herders say their animals are being affected by wind farms and other industry ~enviro energy.renewable Article 1415 words 4 votes
Esrange Space Center in Sweden has become the leading prospective candidate for Europe's first mainland satellite launch ~space satellites Link 4 votes
Research group Whale Wise are investigating how net entanglement is affecting humpback whale populations in Iceland using drones ~enviro Article 938 words 3 votes
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 ~enviro Article 764 words 6 votes
It appears both the West and Beijing itself have grossly overestimated Chinese expansion in Greenland ~misc politics Article 976 words, published Oct 22 2022 6 votes
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? ~enviro climate change Article 1510 words 8 votes
Security services in Norway say they have arrested a university lecturer accused of working for Russia as a spy ~news norway russia Article 577 words 5 votes
Driftwood floats thousands of kilometers from Siberia to Iceland, but it may drift no longer by 2060 due to climate change ~enviro climate change Article 895 words, published Aug 25 2022 5 votes
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 ~life Article 1075 words 6 votes
Clues to the near-future behaviour of a warming Greenland, and perhaps even a warming Antarctic, buried under the North Sea ~enviro climate change water.melt Article 706 words 5 votes
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 ~food restaurants Article 1817 words 6 votes
Norway is extending the life of its last Arctic coal mine – will now operate until 2025 amid Europe's energy crisis ~enviro energy Article 292 words 7 votes
Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least twenty-seven centimeters on its own ~enviro climate change Article 857 words 12 votes
Alex Honnold just led the first ascent of one of Earth's tallest Arctic sea cliffs, gathering crucial climate data along the way ~enviro climate change Article 1629 words, published Aug 18 2022 8 votes
Indigenous reindeer herders fear the drive towards a more sustainable economy is destroying their traditional way of life and identity in Sweden ~life Article 1582 words 11 votes
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 ~enviro climate change Article 4 votes
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 ~enviro climate change water Article 614 words 8 votes
Greenland sharks born long before the Industrial Revolution are still hunting Arctic waters to this day – but they face an uncertain future ~enviro climate change Article 502 words 7 votes
NASA scientists to study ice, snow and melt ponds in the Arctic Ocean during the warmer summer months to better understand melting sea ice ~enviro water climate change Article 4 votes
'She's perfect and she's beautiful': Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields ~science Article 834 words 7 votes
With Stalinist architecture, a prominent bust of Lenin and posters extolling the motherland, Pyramiden is the abandoned Soviet mining town in Norway's Arctic ~humanities.history Article 1419 words 10 votes
Isolated group of polar bears found surviving in south-east Greenland thanks to freshwater discharge from glaciers ~enviro water.fresh Article 740 words 10 votes
Canada and Denmark reach settlement over disputed Arctic island, sources say ~news canada denmark Article 845 words 5 votes
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 ~enviro Article 1013 words 7 votes
Why did the US military dig a tunnel in the Alaskan tundra? What is the tunnel used for now? ~enviro Video 17:09 5 votes
Norway's breeding programme sees arctic foxes return in high numbers – foxes still listed as under threat of becoming extinct in Scandinavia ~enviro conservation Article 304 words 3 votes
As the world experiences sea level rise, Iceland's waters are falling – and flowing to the other side of the planet ~enviro water climate change Article 1505 words 6 votes
NATO troops conducted a routine war exercise in the Arctic. This year felt different. ~misc Article 735 words 7 votes
For asylum seekers, Norway is a sanctuary but even in remote towns, Muslim refugees say they face surveillance and threats ~life Article 1295 words 2 votes
The future of sea level rise is being written underneath Antarctica and Greenland ~enviro water climate change Article 1738 words 4 votes
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 ~enviro pollution Article 514 words, published Nov 7 2017 2 votes
Photojournalist Giuia Besana visits the world's northernmost priest who runs the Svalbard Church in Longyearbyen, in Norway's Svalbard archipelago ~life Article 437 words 6 votes
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 ~enviro climate change Article 792 words 5 votes