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Jens Stoltenberg at OECD headquarters in Paris on May 29, 2013 while serving as Norway's Prime Minister. (Eric Piermont)

UN names Norway’s ex-PM and Ghana’s ex-president as climate envoys

23 December 2013 The Associated Press 0 Comments Ban Ki-moon, Ghana, John Kufuor

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Ghana’s former president John Kufuor and Norway’s former prime minister Jens Stoltenberg to help

View across Reykjavík in Iceland from Öskjuhlíd Hill. (Kirsty Wigglesworth, File / AP)

CULTURE Culture Featured Iceland SPECIAL FEATURES

Concern for elves holds up Iceland road project

23 December 201328 August 2014 The Associated Press 0 Comments environment, fairies, folklore, protests

In this land of fire and ice, where the fog-shrouded lava fields offer a spooky landscape in which anything might lurk, stories

Denmark/Greenland ENVIRONMENT Environment Featured

Arctic gets breather from pell-mell warming in 2013, but long-term problems persist

12 December 2013 The Associated Press 0 Comments climate, weather

The rapid melting in the Arctic eased up this year. But the government says global warming is still dramatically altering the

A police officer stands guard at a house where a man was shot dead by poilce in Reykjaiík on December 2, 2013. (Halldor Kolbeins / AFP)

Featured Iceland SOCIETY Society

Iceland has first fatal police shooting

3 December 201328 August 2014 The Associated Press 0 Comments crime, guns, law, North

Police in Iceland said Monday they shot dead a gunman — the first time armed police have killed someone in

Featured Norway SOCIETY Society

Norway’s military intel chief admits to phone spying outside country

19 November 2013 The Associated Press 0 Comments Dagbladet, North

Norway’s military intelligence chief said Tuesday his country carries out surveillance on millions of phone calls in conflict areas around

DNA analysis conducted by Oxford University genetics professor Bryan Sykes suggests the creature is the descendant of an ancient polar bear. Sykes compared DNA from hair samples taken from two Himalayan animals — identified by local people as yetis — to a database of animal genomes. He found they shared a genetic fingerprint with an ancient polar bear jawbone found in the Norwegian Arctic. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Associated Press)

Canada Featured SPECIAL FEATURES

Yeti might be undiscovered polar bear hybrid, scientist says

18 October 201318 July 2014 The Associated Press 0 Comments Arctic, wildlife

A British scientist says he may have solved the mystery of the yeti — the elusive ape-like creature of the

Norway's new Prime Minister Erna Solberg.(Stian Lysberg Solum, /NTB Scanpix / AP)

Norway POLITICS Politics

Conservative government takes office in Norway

16 October 2013 The Associated Press 0 Comments Erna Solberg, oil, Progress Party

STAVANGER, Norway — A conservative government promising tax cuts and stricter controls on immigration has taken office in Norway. Incoming

A man takes a photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, with a tablet in 2013. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexander Astafyev, Government Press Service)

BUSINESS Russia

Putin says Russia will expand its Arctic presence, restore Soviet-era military base

3 October 2013 The Associated Press 0 Comments economy, Lomonosov Ridge, North, politics, security

President Vladimir Putin pledged Thursday that Russia will expand its presence in the Arctic, adding that work is underway to

A handout picture taken on October 2, 2013 and released by Greenpeace International shows Greenpeace activist Sini Saarela from Finland being escorted in a court in the northern Russian city of Murmansk. (Dmitri Sharomov / Greenpeace / AFP)

Russia SOCIETY Society

Russia charges five Greenpeace activists with piracy; more charges expected

2 October 2013 The Associated Press 0 Comments Arctic, environment, international, justice, National, Oil&Gas

Greenpeace said Wednesday that five of its activists who were detained after protesting at a Russian oil platform have

This image made available by Greenpeace shows five activists attempting to climb the Prirazlomnaya, an oil platform operated by Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom. (Denis Sinyakov, Greenpeace/The Associated Press)

ENVIRONMENT Environment Featured Russia

Russian probe: Greenpeace activists posed ‘real threat’ to Arctic oil platform

30 September 2013 The Associated Press 0 Comments environment, international, justice, National, Oil&Gas

Russia’s investigative agency says Greenpeace activists posed a “real threat” to the security of personnel on an offshore drilling platform in the

View of a former coal mine train in the science base of Ny-Alesund on the Svalbard archipelago in the Norwegian Arctic. (Martin Bureau / AFP)

ENVIRONMENT Featured Norway

Global study to weigh economic costs, benefits of fighting climate change

25 September 2013 The Associated Press 0 Comments Arctic, Jens Stoltenberg

A new global initiative wants to present a more persuasive argument for action on climate change by focusing on the

ENVIRONMENT Environment Featured Russia

Putin says Greenpeace activists not pirates

25 September 2013 The Associated Press 0 Comments Arctic, drilling, energy, law, Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Greenpeace activists apprehended after trying to scale an offshore oil platform aren’t

A crew member keeps watch aboard a Russian coast guard boat, left, as the Greenpeace ship 'Arctic Sunrise', right, is anchored next to it, in a small bay near Severomorsk, Russia. (The Associated Press)

ENVIRONMENT Environment Featured Russia

Greenpeace activists face Russian piracy charges

24 September 2013 The Associated Press 0 Comments Arctic, Arctic Sunrise, Gazprom, Murmansk, politics

Russian investigators said Tuesday that they will file piracy charges against Greenpeace activists who tried to climb onto an

Ice cover is up 50% from last year, but is still the 6th lowest level on record. (Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic)

Canada ENVIRONMENT Environment Featured

Arctic ice level rebounds from record 2012 low

23 September 2013 The Associated Press 0 Comments climate, National Snow and Ice Data Center, North Pole, oceans

The amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank this summer to the sixth lowest level, but that is much

The town of Vardoe in Norway's Arctic. (Pierre-Henry Deshayes / AFP)

Featured Norway SOCIETY Society

Norway plans broadband Internet in Arctic

12 July 2013 The Associated Press 0 Comments communications, Norwegian Space Center, shipping, Telenor Satellite Broadcasting

STAVANGER, Norway — Norway may provide high-speed Internet in one of the few places on Earth where it’s not available:

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