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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Scientists built a canoe using only prehistoric tools. Then they sailed the dangerous 140-mile route early humans traveled 30,000 years ago.
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Meeting client requirements of a 200-year design life for the Kruunuvuori Bridge in Finland demanded ingenuity in structural engineering and material choices
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Was there a Norwegian island of New Zealand? Stewart Island was home to a significant proportion of Norwegian settlers and whalers.
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The mystery of a North Sea message in a bottle found on a Swedish island after forty-seven years has been solved
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Saving the sea cows of Vanuatu. There’s still hope for “the friendliest ‘fish’ in the water.”
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Ungdomsøen, an island fort in the Øresund strait, lets stressed Danish students unplug from distractions and study in nature
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The scientists who leave little trace at the world's northernmost laboratory in Ny-Ålesund in Norway's Arctic
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Why the island of Bornholm is Danish and not German, Swedish or Polish
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This Hawaiian island's 'freakosystems' are a signal of what will be coming to many more ecosystems thanks to human interference
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Remote North Sea isle of Læsø is world-famous for the gastronomic delights that come from its Danish waters – so the best way to explore it is in waders
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Dubai Creek Tower | Abandoned
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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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State of emergency declared on Santorini after earthquakes shake island
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Grímsey, set some 40km off Iceland's northern coast, is home to one of Europe's most remote settlements and a thriving seabird population
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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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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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Panama prepares to evacuate first island in face of rising sea levels
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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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The remote Danish island of Bornholm has pledged to eliminate trash by 2032. How will it get there?
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The history behind Orkney's vote to ‘join Norway’
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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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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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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 Vladimir 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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