Oxford University-led study detects twenty-six types of PFAS compounds in ice around Svalbard, threatening downstream ecosystems
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In 1952, a landslide caused a tsunami that killed a Greenlandic man – some researchers think he might have been an early victim of anthropogenic warming
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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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New ice core analysis shows a sharp spike in Greenland temperatures since 1995 – 1.5°C hotter than its 20th-century average, the warmest in more than 1,000 years
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Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals has been found in Sweden – may not reach market before 10-15 years' time due to environmental risk evaluations
5 votes -
Svalbard reindeer thrive as they shift diet towards popsicle-like grasses – increased plant growth due to warmer climate
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Swedish reindeer herders say their animals are being affected by wind farms and other industry
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Research group Whale Wise are investigating how net entanglement is affecting humpback whale populations in Iceland using drones
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Greta Thunberg Foundation has donated £158,000 to cover legal costs of indigenous people in Sweden's Arctic as they battle a British mining company
6 votes -
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
7 votes -
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
3 votes -
As the world experiences sea level rise, Iceland's waters are falling – and flowing to the other side of the planet
6 votes -
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
6 votes -
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
29 votes -
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
6 votes -
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
8 votes -
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
10 votes -
Climate Crisis Font shrinks in response to Arctic sea ice data
9 votes -
Sámi reindeer herders file lawsuit against Norway windfarm – indigenous communities say planned Øyfjellet turbines will interfere with migration paths
8 votes -
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
6 votes -
An earth system model shows self-sustained melting of permafrost even if all man-made GHG emissions stop in 2020
15 votes -
Greenland's ice sheet melting seven times faster than in 1990s
8 votes -
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
13 votes -
Polar bear kills man in Norway's Arctic Svalbard islands – experts say polar bears' hunting grounds have diminished as the Arctic ice sheet melts
10 votes -
Norway plans to drill for oil in untouched Arctic areas – critics say plan for fields off Svalbard threatens ecosystem and relations with Russia
6 votes -
Climate change may cause extreme waves in the Arctic
5 votes -
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
8 votes