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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Driftwood floats thousands of kilometers from Siberia to Iceland, but it may drift no longer by 2060 due to climate change
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Clues to the near-future behaviour of a warming Greenland, and perhaps even a warming Antarctic, buried under the North Sea
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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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Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least twenty-seven centimeters on its own
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Alex Honnold just led the first ascent of one of Earth's tallest Arctic sea cliffs, gathering crucial climate data along the way
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Greenland is ground zero for the impacts of climate change, but it could also become ground zero for sourcing the metals needed to power the solution to the crisis
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Greenland ice sheet saw a sharp spike in the rate and extent of melting last week – eighteen billion tons of water in just three days
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Greenland sharks born long before the Industrial Revolution are still hunting Arctic waters to this day – but they face an uncertain future
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NASA scientists to study ice, snow and melt ponds in the Arctic Ocean during the warmer summer months to better understand melting sea ice
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Isolated group of polar bears found surviving in south-east Greenland thanks to freshwater discharge from glaciers
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Norway is vowing to help Europe turn away from Russian gas, but that's set off a political battle with the left-wing opposition that rejects expanded gas exploration
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Why did the US military dig a tunnel in the Alaskan tundra? What is the tunnel used for now?
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Norway's breeding programme sees arctic foxes return in high numbers – foxes still listed as under threat of becoming extinct in Scandinavia
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As the world experiences sea level rise, Iceland's waters are falling – and flowing to the other side of the planet
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The future of sea level rise is being written underneath Antarctica and Greenland
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UN experts call for Sweden to scrap a planned iron ore mine – toxic waste and other contaminants would cause 'irreversible risks' to land used by the Sámi
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Herders in Lapland are struggling to locate thousands of reindeer that have run away after warm weather left the food they graze on covered by a layer of ice
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Norway's supreme court stripped two wind farms of their operating licences in a case that could boost the legal rights of the country's indigenous Sámi people
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Trans-Alaska pipeline under threat from thawing permafrost
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With climate change emerging as a primary issue in this month's Norwegian parliamentary election, there are signs people are questioning the country's reliance on crude oil
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For the first time on record precipitation on Saturday at the summit of Greenland, roughly two miles above sea level, fell as rain and not snow
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Sweden's only remaining mountaintop glacier lost another two metres in height in the past year due to rising air temperatures driven by climate change
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Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other blazes combined
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Third-biggest ice loss for Greenland in a single day since 1950 – rapid melt followed warm air being trapped by a change in atmospheric circulation patterns
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Ground temperatures in Siberia reach extremes of 48°C, air temperatures reach 30°C
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Large amounts of mercury discovered in Greenland's glaciers – the heavy metal raises concerns for the health of indigenous communities
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Norwegian climate activists have asked the European Court of Human Rights to rule against Norway's plans for more oil drilling in the Arctic
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Building electronics that can survive under Greenland's ice sheet – meet the Cryoegg, designed to follow the melting going on beneath the ice sheet
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Climate Crisis Font shrinks in response to Arctic sea ice data
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Sámi reindeer herders file lawsuit against Norway windfarm – indigenous communities say planned Øyfjellet turbines will interfere with migration paths
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Norway's supreme court has approved government plans for oil exploration in the Barents Sea, rejecting a lawsuit by environmental groups
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An invasion of king crabs from Russia into Norway created a lucrative fishing industry – and difficult choices
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An earth system model shows self-sustained melting of permafrost even if all man-made GHG emissions stop in 2020
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Greenland's ice sheet melting seven times faster than in 1990s
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A big chunk of ice has broken away from the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf, Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, in north-east Greenland – ejected section covers about 110 square km
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Polar bear kills man in Norway's Arctic Svalbard islands – experts say polar bears' hunting grounds have diminished as the Arctic ice sheet melts
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Norway plans to drill for oil in untouched Arctic areas – critics say plan for fields off Svalbard threatens ecosystem and relations with Russia
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Climate change may cause extreme waves in the Arctic
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Siberian wildfires swell amid historic heatwave, as highs of 38°C reported north of the arctic circle
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Sweden suffers one of its strongest earthquakes at an Arctic iron ore mine – quake measured magnitude 4.1 and forced the mine to close
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Can someone ELI5 arctic tipping points or how close we are to runaway climate change?
As the various Arctic climate feedbacks show, we are fast approaching the stage when climate change will be playing the tune for us while we stand by and watch helplessly, with our reductions in...
As the various Arctic climate feedbacks show, we are fast approaching the stage when climate change will be playing the tune for us while we stand by and watch helplessly, with our reductions in CO2 emissions having no effect in the face of, say, runaway emissions of methane.
from this article: https://e360.yale.edu/features/as_arctic_ocean_ice_disappears_global_climate_impacts_intensify_wadhams
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Norway has come under fire from environmental groups who accuse it of caving to oil companies over a decision to shift an Arctic no-go zone
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Scientists confirm dramatic melting of Greenland ice sheet – loss largely due to high pressure zone not taken into account by climate models
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Sweden's climate solution is now the Sámi people's problem – winters are becoming warmer and climate change is making conditions for the reindeer unsafe
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Greenland's melting ice raised global sea level by 2.2mm in two months – analysis of satellite data reveals astounding loss of 600bn tons of ice last summer
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Ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica is tracking the worst-case climate warming scenario set out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scientists say
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Greenpeace asks Norway's supreme court to rule on Arctic oil – a case that could block the petroleum industry's expansion plans
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“Abrupt thaw” affects five percent of Arctic permafrost, but it could double the amount of warming it contributes
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Greenpeace loses Norway Arctic oil lawsuit appeal – Oslo appeals court approved Norway's plans for more oil exploration in the Arctic
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