Inside the successful, decades-long effort to protect the Humboldt Archipelago in Chile
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The unique undersea tunnels that link the Faroe Islands
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LISICA - The Scientist Soap Opera - Celebrating my 30th episode!
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The struggle to contain, and eat, the invasive deer taking over Hawaii
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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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With tourism set to reach an all-time high in the Faroe Islands this year, travellers should seek out the archipelago's slower roads and newly opened sub-sea tunnels
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Adrift off the Finnish coast, the autonomous island of Maakalla comes alive each summer and offers a fascinating glimpse at how Finns once lived
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Waddi, a virtual tour guide, uses artificial intelligence to answer visitor queries and engage in conversations on the Danish island of Fanø
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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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Why did Google Maps have a big black smudge in the South Pacific before 2012? And why did it disappear? And what does it have to do with Captain Cook? And what is a phantom island? | Map Men
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Lisica - Weekly episodes of a scientist soap opera
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Visiting the king of Ant Island
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Falkland's sovereignty 'not up for discussion' UK leader warns after new Argentinian president vows to 'get them back'
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The remote Danish island of Bornholm has pledged to eliminate trash by 2032. How will it get there?
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Tuvalu plans for its own disappearance [can an island state remain a state if it is underwater?]
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The history behind Orkney's vote to ‘join Norway’
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Orkney could leave the UK to become a self-governing territory of Norway after its council opted to explore alternative forms of governance
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Denmark delays man-made energy island in North Sea due to high costs – more options for better and cheaper concept will be analyzed
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Although Finland's Åland archipelago is strategically located in the Baltic Sea, an agreement prevents any military presence there – but perhaps this could change
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Life in Ny-Ålesund, the world's northern-most research station – in pictures
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Cold, remote and short of women – a portrait of life on the Faroe Islands
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Producers of the latest Mission: Impossible film have dropped their attempt to obtain permission for dozens of helicopter landings on Svalbard
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Oxford University-led study detects twenty-six types of PFAS compounds in ice around Svalbard, threatening downstream ecosystems
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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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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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The artificial island of Lynetteholm is meant to protect the Danish capital from floods and provide housing – but critics accuse the project of greenwashing
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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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Why it's perfectly normal to see baby puffins thrown off cliffs in Iceland each year
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Former President Trump suggested to his aides that the United States could trade Puerto Rico to Denmark for Greenland while he was president, according to a new book
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On the shores of an island off Norway's North Sea coast, engineers are building a burial ground for unwanted greenhouse gas
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Closed for maintenance – how the Faroe Islands shook up the voluntourism game
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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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Once seen as experimental, a commercial wine industry in regions just below the Arctic circle is taking advantage of the warmer summers
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The grass is always browner – Swedish neighbours vie for 'ugliest lawn' title on the island of Gotland
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Inside the first undersea roundabout – one of the world's most remote construction projects can be found on the Faroe Islands
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Iguanas reproducing on Galapagos island century after disappearing
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The tiny US island with a British accent
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With Stalinist architecture, a prominent bust of Lenin and posters extolling the motherland, Pyramiden is the abandoned Soviet mining town in Norway's Arctic
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Canada and Denmark reach settlement over disputed Arctic island, sources say
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The construction of two energy islands off the coast of Denmark is being sped up to help wean the country off Russian fossil fuels
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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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Were the Norse the first to settle the Azores? Seafarers may have come and gone from lush archipelago more than 1000 years ago
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Butterflies released in Finland contained parasitic wasps, with more wasps inside – introduction of Glanville fritillary leads to emergence of three new species on island of Sottunga
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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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Plans for an artificial island to house 35,000 people and protect the port of Copenhagen from rising sea levels have been approved by Danish MPs
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Galápagos rock formation Darwin’s Arch collapses from erosion
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Swedish officials have joined Danish critics in registering concerns that an island-building plan, a signature test of Copenhagen's development model, could have risks
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How coral atolls get their gorgeous ring shapes
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Denmark's government has agreed to take a majority stake in a £25bn artificial 'energy island' which is to be built 80km offshore
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