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
Vladimir Putin signs bill revoking Russia’s ratification of a global nuclear test ban treaty ~news russia politics usa Article 218 words 36 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 ~news norway.svalbard latvia Article 446 words 4 votes
Why Denmark is voting on its defence relationship with the EU – and what it says about democracy in Europe ~misc politics Article 931 words 5 votes
What if the Morgenthau plan was implemented in Germany after the end of WW2? ~humanities.history Video 12:56 5 votes
UN treaty banning nuclear weapons takes effect, without the US and others ~news usa Article 515 words 12 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 Article 302 words 4 votes
How Sweden and Germany plan to curb the threat of nuclear warfare ~misc Article 879 words, published Nov 6 2019 6 votes
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov requests a meeting with Norwegian authorities to remove limitations on Russian activity on Svalbard ~news norway.svalbard russia 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 Article 725 words 18 votes
US formally withdraws from 1987 nuclear pact with Russia that banned short and medium-range land-based missiles ~news usa russia Article 617 words 15 votes
Sweden says it won't sign UN nuclear ban treaty – the treaty in its current form is not ready ~news sweden politics Article 152 words 4 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