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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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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UK looks to Sweden for a solution to nuclear waste – repeated attempts to find a suitable location have been stymied by political intransigence and environmentalists
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The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change
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Faroe Islands to provisionally limit its controversial dolphin hunt to 500 animals after receiving widespread criticism
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Climate change: 'Sand battery' could solve green energy's big problem
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Commercial whaling in Iceland could be banned within two years, after a government minister said there was little justification for the practice
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Brown bears switch habitats in the spring so they can hunt reindeer and moose calves, researchers have said
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Tsunami hits Tonga after giant volcano eruption
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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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Tidal kites with a five-metre wingspan move underwater in a figure-of-eight pattern, absorbing energy from the running tide to generate electricity
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Climate change food calculator: What's your diet's carbon footprint?
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Norway's incoming centre-left government has said it will seek to grow the country's lucrative oil and gas industry while striving to cut carbon emissions
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Practice of dolphin hunting in the Faroe Islands has come under renewed scrutiny after more than 1,400 of the mammals were killed in one day
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Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
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Mouse plague deals fresh blow to Australian farmers
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Galápagos tortoise found alive is from species thought extinct
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Body found in Norwegian landslide – rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for ten people missing in a hillside collapse
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Landslide in the Norwegian village of Gjerdrum has left at least nine people injured and buried houses – twenty-six people are unaccounted for
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The young Norwegians taking their own country to court over oil
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Norway funds satellite map of world's tropical forests – funding for the project comes through its International Climate and Forests Initiative
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Icelandic prime minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir kept calm under pressure as a 5.5 magnitude earthquake interrupted her live interview with the Washington Post
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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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The millions being made from cardboard theft
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Exponential adoption of solar power by opium-growers in Afghanistan
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Greta Thunberg, the climate campaigner who doesn't like campaigning
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Britain about to pass a significant landmark—two months of coal-free electricity generation—as renewables edge out fossil fuels
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Climate change and coronavirus: Five charts about the biggest carbon crash
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‘Human beings have overrun the world’: David Attenborough calls for an end to waste in impassioned plea to address climate change
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Police are warning parents a Bristol protest Greta Thunberg is due to join has 'grown so large' it is unlikely usual safety measures will be adequate
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Climate change activist Greta Thunberg says she is trademarking her name and the #FridaysForFuture movement to stop people from impersonating her
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Greta Thunberg: ‘Forget about net zero, we need real zero’
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Norway records warmest ever January day at 19C – the main cause for the record-breaking temperatures at this particular site was from a foehn wind
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge unveil a global prize to tackle climate issues in the next decade
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Australia heatwave: State of emergency declared over bushfire crisis
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Who is Greta Thunberg, the #FridaysForFuture activist?
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Environmental activist, Greta Thunberg is to appear as one of the Christmas guest editors of Radio 4's Today programme
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Electric car future may depend on deep sea mining
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Amager Bakke, the incinerator and the ski slope tackling waste
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Climate change: Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather for UN talks
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Hurricane Dorian: Storm inches north west, leaving devastation in Bahamas
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Norway Sámi community fights for survival as temperatures rise
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Amazon fires: Brazil threatened over EU trade deal
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Plastic particles falling out of sky with snow in Arctic
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has accepted a ride across the Atlantic by sail boat to attend two key climate conferences
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Dozens of dead beached whales have been spotted by sightseers during a helicopter flight over western Iceland
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Ireland to ban new petrol and diesel vehicles from 2030
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Power has been restored to much of Argentina and Uruguay after a massive electrical failure left tens of millions of people in the dark
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Canada to ban single-use plastics as early as 2021
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