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Extremely low pressure grounds some air traffic in northern Norway

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 at 10:30 — Last Updated: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 at 10:34
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The past months have seen extraordinarily rough weather along the north Norwegian coast. Early this week came another extreme. The

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Battery-powered tour buses come to Arctic Norway

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 11:18
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The travel industry goes green and the north is no exception when tour-busses aims for zero emission. It is the

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Methane emissions in Arctic Ocean have long been overestimated, study claims

Mathiew Leiser, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 at 18:30
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A new study from UiT The Arctic University of Norway revealed that estimates of methane emissions released from the Arctic

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The Tromso-winter in Arctic Norway now 17 days shorter than 30 years ago

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, January 9, 2020 at 09:04 — Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2020 at 17:17
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Kirkenes, on the coast to the Barents Sea, woke up to 2° Celsius and rain Wednesday. In Tromsø, Norway’s largest city

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Norway considers size limitation on passenger ships sailing to Svalbard

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at 14:47
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The initiative, along with a ban on heavy fuel oil, is welcomed by both locals in Longyearbyen and Arctic expedition

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Russian icebreaker leaves Tromsø to supply ice-locked German research ship

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 11:26
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The «Kapitan Dranitsyn» is bringing equipment, supplies and 95 researchers to the «Polarstern» as part of great international research expedition

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Norway greenlights copper mine with tailings to be dumped in Arctic fjord

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, December 2, 2019 at 10:36
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Protests from the indigenous Sami people, local fishermen and environmental groups were turned down by the government. “Allowing this to happen

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Norway’s rising oil production not compatible with climate efforts, UN report warns

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 at 10:05
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Over the next four years, Norway’s petroleum production will increase by 40 percent. A new report from the UN Environment

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Climate change is about to divide Norway’s largest Arctic island

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 10:35 — Last Updated: Friday, September 20, 2019 at 13:59
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The front of Hornsundbreen glacier in Arctic Norway is retreating every year and will eventually open a new strait between

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Traces of radioactive iodine detected near Norway-Russia border

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, August 16, 2019 at 11:05
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The findings are not necessary connected with the recent accident at the nuclear weapons test site in northern Russia, Norwegian

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Radiation seeping out from 30-year-old nuclear-sub wreck in Norwegian Sea

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 at 11:56 — Last Updated: Friday, July 12, 2019 at 11:51
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One sample taken from an open ventilation hole of the wrecked Soviet nuclear-powered submarine shows levels of about 800 Becquerel

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Scientists check 30-year-old submarine wreck for radiation in Norwegian Sea

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, July 8, 2019 at 10:50 — Last Updated: Monday, July 8, 2019 at 10:53
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Norwegian and Russian researchers sail joint expedition to the site where the submarine Komsomolets sank in 1989. The unique titanium

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Skiers who died in Arctic Norway last winter triggered avalanche: report

Yle News
Posted: Friday, July 5, 2019 at 15:06
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A group of skiers who went missing in the Blåbærfjellet region of Norway’s Tamok Valley and were later declared dead

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Arctic fox’s rapid journey from Svalbard to Northern Canada stuns researchers

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 11:38 — Last Updated: Friday, June 28, 2019 at 10:01
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The 3,506 km long sprint of the small animal is stunning researchers. “We first did not believe it was true,”

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Small traces of radioactive Cobalt-60 detected along Norway-Russia border

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at 11:03
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“The levels measured are very, very low and we don’t know its origin,” says Bredo Møller with Norway’s radiation agency’s

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