Denmark will ramp up inspections of ships transporting Russian oil through its narrow straits, in an effort to protect the environment and maritime safety from older vessels in Moscow's shadow fleet ~transport Article 231 words 11 votes
Patents based on traditional knowledge are often ‘biopiracy’. A new international treaty will finally combat this. ~life Article 838 words 18 votes
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 ~finance Article 728 words 7 votes
Norway will not go ahead with plans to permit seabed mining of critical raw materials on its continental shelf if initial exploration suggests it cannot be done sustainably ~enviro sustainability Article 751 words 25 votes
How Finland survived a 1,000,000+ Soviet invasion (1939-1940) ~humanities.history Video 46:49 13 votes
In northern Ontario, a dozen First Nations have been left struggling. A court’s attempt to enforce treaty promises could see them getting up to C$126bn. ~news canada.on Article 2222 words 12 votes
Plastic overshoot day spotlights growing 'climate nightmare' of global waste ~enviro pollution plastics climate change Article 1775 words 19 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 ~enviro Article 446 words 4 votes
What if the Morgenthau plan was implemented in Germany after the end of WW2? ~humanities.history Video 12:56 5 votes
What an underground nuclear test actually looks like ~science Article 313 words, published Sep 9 2016 8 votes
Russia filed a protest to Oslo after Norwegian coastguards detained a Russian trawler near a remote chain of islands in the Arctic ~news norway.svalbard politics Article 302 words 4 votes
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov requests a meeting with Norwegian authorities to remove limitations on Russian activity on Svalbard ~news norway.svalbard russia politics Link 4 votes
Svalbard: Minute By Minute – Norway's state-owned NRK is about to air its longest and most ambitious show yet ~tv Article 514 words 8 votes
Victorian treaty negotiations move closer as voting opens for First People's Assembly ~news australia.vic politics Article 613 words 6 votes
Cherokee nation takes up 1835 treaty right and names first delegate to US Congress ~news usa politics.usa Article 725 words 18 votes
The first Japanese man in America: A teenager shipwrecked on a Pacific atoll helped transform relations between Japan and the United States ~humanities.history Link 5 votes
Victorian Parliament to vote on negotiating Australia's first Aboriginal treaty ~news australia politics Article 732 words 11 votes