2020 shaping up to have second lowest Arctic sea ice extent on record
This season’s sea-ice extent is soon reaching minimum, with a specially sharp decline north of Svalbard and Russia’s Arctic archipelagos.
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Blog – Whose Arctic security is it anyway?
The question of security in the Arctic has become more pronounced in the region of late. This is thought to
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Increase in NATO scrambled jets from Norway
With two F-16s in the air on Monday, the number of QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) to identify Russian military planes
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London calling to the faraway north, leads largest NATO task force into the Barents Sea since last Cold War
A British Royal Navy statement following this week’s exercise disproves the post-Cold War saying “High North – Low Tension.” “The
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Norway’s Svalbard experienced hottest summer on record
Glaciers are melting, permafrost thaws and buildings are sagging. What scares the scientists most is studies of decomposing carbon from
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Good Fences? Good Neighbours? The Diplomatic Travails of Norway and Russia
Compared with some of Russia’s other neighbours, the country’s border with Norway is relatively short, (approximately 196 kilometres), but from
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Wealthy tourists might soon be able to discover Norway’s Arctic coast from this submarine
Most cruise liners from across the globe have paused operations and empty ships are currently left in ports. The travel
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Moscow expells senior Norwegian diplomat
Ambassador Rune Resaland on Friday got the message from the Russian Foreign Ministry that one of his senior staff will
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Polar bear kills Dutch citizen on Norway’s remote Svalbard Islands
A polar bear attacked a camping site Friday in Norway’s remote Svalbard Islands, killing a 38-year-old Dutch man before being
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Norwegian police arrests citizen suspected of selling state secrets to Russia
The arrest happened at a restaurant in Oslo. « We have detained a man his 50s, suspected of sharing information
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Nornickel debuts in tourism, starts king crab safari in border area to Norway
The company “Port Liinakharmari” is registered with a capital of 50 million rubles and is a 100% owned subsidiary of
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Arctic mine signs giant copper contract with a green touch in Norway
Nussir aims at becoming the world’s first fully electrified underground mine, with zero emission of CO2. Preparing for production could
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Washington pulls 700 US marines out of Norway
The US Marines has been permanently stationed in Norway on a rotational basis since 2017. That arrangement now comes to
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A Norwegian port offers a new transport route for Chinese shippers
The shipping container was in mid-July loaded on a train in the Chinese city of Hefei. Less than two weeks
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Climate change hits back at Svalbard, coal mine flooded by melting glacier in Norway
Large water penetration in Gruve 7 (Mine 7) was discovered on Sunday July 26 during a routine inspection, the Store Norske
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