Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis. The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."
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The Loess plateau was the most eroded place on Earth until China took action
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Dozens of reindeer have been killed for crossing into Russia, as Norway fixes Arctic fence to stop the Sámi herds crossing the border
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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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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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In Sweden's Arctic, ice atop snow leaves reindeer starving
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Over two hundred dead reindeer found on Norway's Arctic Svalbard
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