Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis. The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."
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Unique 1.5m year-old ice to be melted to unlock mystery
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Is Slættaratindur, the highest mountain in the Faroe Islands, as tough to climb as it is to pronounce?
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Entrepreneurs are hauling bergs from the Arctic island of Greenland, betting there are enough people willing to pay up for an extra-chilled drink
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Deep snow, thick ice and zero delays – inside the Arctic airports that never cancel a flight
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‘The ice is not freezing as it should’: supply roads to Canada’s Indigenous communities under threat from climate crisis
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For more than twenty years, scientists have followed polar bears in Norway's Arctic archipelago to understand how they may adapt to changing threats as the ice they depend on melts
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In Norway, lake-harvested cocktail ice is an old business making a quiet comeback
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Finnish ironwoman Elina Mäkinen's guide to Finland's best outdoor icy plunges – from plunges under the Northern Lights to paying homage to Arctic gods
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How did Scandinavian Airlines flight 751 survive after losing power in both engines just one minute after takeoff?
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An American man has died in south Iceland after ice collapsed while he was on a group tour to a glacier
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Every year since 1989, a hotel built out of snow and ice is constructed anew, and welcomes guests in the Swedish village of Jukkasjärvi
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Don't look so blue, Neptune: New study (re)reveals Neptune's blue hue to be very pale and similar to Uranus, unlike edited Voyager 2 images
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Helsinki Airport clears runway snow in just eleven minutes – why do some airports cope better with snow than others?
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Something weird happens when you keep squeezing
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SS Baychimo: The unsinkable Arctic ghost ship
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Drama in the snow: The crash of Scandinavian Airlines flight 751
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Coca Cola and soda consumption growth in India
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Why wind turbines in New York keep working in bitter cold weather unlike the ones in Texas
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Inside the surprisingly big business of UK packaged ice
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Growing number of unexpected arrivals in Arctic waters around Greenland – shrinking sea ice has fast-tracked a race among powers for control over resources and waterways
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Thousands of egg-shaped balls of ice have covered a beach in Finland – the result of a rare weather phenomenon
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What causes rare rainbow arcs?
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