Finland's Linnunsuo wetland used to be a barren "moonscape" – local fishing communities have transformed it into a biodiverse haven and an important carbon sink
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Icelanders are famously hardy, but after volcanic eruptions cracked open twenty-metre-deep fissures in Grindavík, residents are asking if they'll ever be allowed back home
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How the UN is holding back the Sahara desert
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Grindavík in Iceland now lies empty. Its people have fled and are beginning to face up to the realisation they may never be able live there again.
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How a US mining firm sued Mexico for billions – for trying to protect its own seabed
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Finns have been fishing for herring for generations, but new reduced EU quotas are threatening the traditional livelihoods of coastal communities
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Geiranger in Norway, where a fissure growing in the side of a cliff could dislodge a rockslide so powerful it unleashes a deadly tsunami
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Greenland's Inuit falling through thin ice of climate change – one of the planet's most important ecosystems teetering on the edge of collapse
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Aquaculture is bringing jobs and money to rural Icelandic regions, but a huge escape of farmed fish in August could devastate local salmon populations
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A mysterious murder in the peyote guardians’ sacred desert
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Tulare lake is re-emerging in California, and farms and communities are going underwater
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In Sweden reindeer herders say their animals are being affected by wind farms and other industry
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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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This 100% solar community endured Hurricane Ian with no loss of power and minimal damage
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Instead of a field, hundreds of Danish growers now share patches of the ocean, growing mussels, sea kelp and more
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Finland is building the world's first permanent disposal site for nuclear waste, with no shortage of people wanting to be its neighbours
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The last of the marsh Arabs
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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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Parks vs. people: In Guatemala, communities take best care of the forest
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In Helsinki's climate plan, community comes before bureaucracy
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Why Detroit residents pushed back against tree-planting
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A rural South Australian council is asking a group of high school students for input on how to spend $1 million in drought relief
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Norway Sámi community fights for survival as temperatures rise
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Icelanders can't remember a hotter summer – it's nice, and worrying
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Pateros and North Central Washington continue rebuilding five years after Carlton Complex
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The town fighting the climate crisis to stay afloat, one hurricane at at time
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Death and broken livelihoods: Farmers and wildfires in British Columbia
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These community wind farms in Denmark and Scotland are decentralising power to the people
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In the world’s northernmost town, temperatures have risen by 4°C, devastating homes, wildlife and even the cemetery. Will the rest of the planet heed its warning?
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How the Swedish town of Eskilstuna became the world capital of recycling
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The city of tomorrow: What decarbonized, climate-resilient, and equitable cities could look like
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Community solar is an excellent way to create energy equity–if it’s done right
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People left weakened and devastated by California's deadliest wildfire keep dying as hospitals remain overwhelmed
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"It’s a constant battle just to survive”: Many California wildfire survivors are still homeless months after a historic blaze
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'Re-Imagining Paradise' — Making plans to rebuild a town destroyed by wildfire
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The last generation
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Left to Louisiana’s tides, a village fights for time
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The great African regreening: Millions of 'magical' new trees bring renewal
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The Aral Sea is bringing new wealth to fishing villages in Kazakhstan, but their neighbours on the opposite shore in Uzbekistan are suffering a very different fate
6 votes