Physical protective barriers have been built to hold back avalanches – but Svalbard has also turned to tech, with the help of a telecom firm and the University of Svalbard
4
votes
-
-
Arctic foxes were almost hunted to extinction in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Can projects to breed and feed them help this native species return for good?
6 votes -
Natural sinks of forests and peat were key to Finland's ambitious target to be carbon neutral by 2035 – but now, the land has started emitting more greenhouse gases than it stores
17 votes -
A voyage like no other, from Norway to Canada through the Northwest Passage – to raise awareness of the six planetary tipping points in the Arctic
7 votes -
European Commission will open office in Greenland, made strategically important by rare resources and melting ice
7 votes -
Norway and the Sámi people end a dispute over Europe's largest onshore wind farm – deal includes a future-oriented solution that safeguards reindeer farming rights
14 votes -
Norway gives Arctic foxes a helping hand as climate change and habitat loss disrupt food chains and lead to starvation
9 votes -
Inside the brazen Arctic trip supplying Vladimir Putin’s flagship energy scheme
7 votes -
Oil firms forced to consider full climate effects of new drilling, following landmark Norwegian court ruling
9 votes -
Sámi rights activists in Norway charged over protests against wind farm affecting reindeer herding
13 votes -
Norway's Arctic deep sea mining plan will inevitably sink – industrialising the ocean floor in the middle of a climate crisis is not only reckless, it's cruel
9 votes -
Norway is likely to become the first country in the world to move forward with the controversial practice of commercial-scale deep-sea mining
14 votes -
Norway's minority government and two opposition parties have agreed to allow seabed mineral exploration in the Arctic region
8 votes -
Since 1978 ice shelves in North Greenland have lost more than 35% of their total volume, with three of them collapsing completely
23 votes -
The pristine Tana River, bordering Norway and Finland, is littered with the rotting corpses of an invasive Pacific salmon species
9 votes -
Norway wants to begin deep sea mining in the Arctic – here is why it's a bad idea
6 votes -
Indigenous Sámi activist set up camp outside the Norwegian parliament to protest against wind turbines built on land traditionally used by reindeer herders
16 votes -
Dozens of reindeer have been killed for crossing into Russia, as Norway fixes Arctic fence to stop the Sámi herds crossing the border
7 votes -
New simulation based study warns against risks of ‘time-traveling pathogens’ in thawing Arctic permafrost
11 votes -
Greenland's largest glacial floating ice declined 42% due to global warming, scientists determine
16 votes -
Even if the planet doesn't get any warmer than it is now, melting ice in Greenland could add at least 1.5 metres to the global average sea level
33 votes -
Norway may soon open waters in the Arctic and sub-Arctic to sea floor mining – growing demand for important minerals, including copper and nickel
10 votes -
Respect existence or expect resistance – protests in Norway against wind farm on Sámi land
3 votes -
Daily tides stoked with increasingly warmer water ate a huge hole at the bottom of one of Greenland's major glaciers in the last couple of years
4 votes -
Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are now losing more than three times as much ice a year as they were thirty years ago
8 votes -
The Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a melting point of no return, says new study
5 votes -
The temptation of high oil prices is shaking Norway's climate commitments
3 votes -
Activists block Norway's energy ministry, protesting against wind turbines built on land traditionally used by the Sámi indigenous people
4 votes -
Oxford University-led study detects twenty-six types of PFAS compounds in ice around Svalbard, threatening downstream ecosystems
6 votes -
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
2 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
4 votes -
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
6 votes -
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
3 votes -
In Sweden reindeer herders say their animals are being affected by wind farms and other industry
4 votes -
Research group Whale Wise are investigating how net entanglement is affecting humpback whale populations in Iceland using drones
3 votes -
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?
8 votes -
Driftwood floats thousands of kilometers from Siberia to Iceland, but it may drift no longer by 2060 due to climate change
5 votes -
Clues to the near-future behaviour of a warming Greenland, and perhaps even a warming Antarctic, buried under the North Sea
5 votes -
Norway is extending the life of its last Arctic coal mine – will now operate until 2025 amid Europe's energy crisis
7 votes -
Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least twenty-seven centimeters on its own
12 votes -
Alex Honnold just led the first ascent of one of Earth's tallest Arctic sea cliffs, gathering crucial climate data along the way
8 votes -
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
4 votes -
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
8 votes -
Greenland sharks born long before the Industrial Revolution are still hunting Arctic waters to this day – but they face an uncertain future
7 votes -
NASA scientists to study ice, snow and melt ponds in the Arctic Ocean during the warmer summer months to better understand melting sea ice
4 votes -
Isolated group of polar bears found surviving in south-east Greenland thanks to freshwater discharge from glaciers
10 votes -
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?
5 votes