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Ice-blog: Arctic plastic “garbage patches”

Irene Quaile
Posted: Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 18:19 — Last Updated: Friday, October 23, 2015 at 13:37
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There are a lot of things you might want to discover on a research cruise in the Arctic. Chunks of

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Alaska’s North Slope fortifies against highway flooding

Asaf Shalev, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 17:57 — Last Updated: Friday, October 23, 2015 at 13:37
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DEADHORSE — If another extreme spring flooding event strikes the northernmost stretch of the Dalton Highway, Alaska transportation crews will be

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More Arctic research, intn’l cooperation needed

Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 15:10 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 14:14
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REYKJAVIK: The climatic changes taking place in the Arctic are a call to action for the world. We must answer

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Final round of UN climate talks before Paris

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, October 19, 2015 at 13:34 — Last Updated: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 19:02
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The final round of official pre-Paris climate negotiations take place in Bonn next week with countries, including Sweden, still working

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Alaska gives go-ahead to hunt ice-stranded muskox

Megan Edge, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 15:49 — Last Updated: Friday, October 16, 2015 at 15:25
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If an Alaska resident spots a musk ox floating on ice sea ice adjacent to a western Alaska game management

Wild boar populations are on the rise in Sweden. (iStock)

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Police hunt for wild boar in Swedish city

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Posted: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 13:21 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 18:20
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Police in central Malmö, Sweden had an unusual call-out Tuesday night, to hunt for a wild boar which had been

A blue rectangular piece of microplastic is visible on a researcher's finger in Washington State in 2010. (Ted S. Warren / AP)

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Microplastics found in waters off Svalbard

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 13:00 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 18:20
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Microplastics, the tiny plastic particles that are accumulating in marine waters and big lakes around the world, are now showing

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Norway app helps reaction to oil spills

Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 17:44 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 13:48
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How large the impact from an oil spill occurrence is, depends on how quickly the clean-up begins. While operational crews

Recent attacks on domestic animals in northern Sweden has led to politicians authorizing a protective hunt through August 20, 2015. (iStock)

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Sweden to study Russian wolf DNA

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 15:38 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 13:48
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The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency is launching a program to analyse the DNA of wolves in Finland and Russia, in

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Bellona Murmansk dissolved as Russian NGO

Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 15:11 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 13:48
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The environmental organization Bellona Murmansk was on Monday dissolved as a NGO after it was declared a «foreign agent» by

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Ice-Blog: Ice melt to motivate whizzkids?

Irene Quaile
Posted: Monday, October 12, 2015 at 07:38
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When it comes to rousing young people’s interest in climate change, the Arctic and Antarctic seem to be a good

The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent in the Arctic in 2008. (Jonathan Hayward / The Canadian Press)

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Ice, shipping and the Northwest Passage

Marc Montgomery, Radio Canada International
Posted: Friday, October 9, 2015 at 13:17 — Last Updated: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 15:40
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New findings from on-site research have found that ice in the Northwest passage can still be too thick and ice

A county board in Sweden approved a protective wolf hunt because they feel the dozens of sheep and lamb deaths are so serious there's no other alternative.(iStock)

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Swedish wolves need more genetic diversity: study

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 15:29 — Last Updated: Friday, October 9, 2015 at 18:47
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A new report commissioned by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency says Sweden needs at least 300 wolves to maintain a

Åsa Romson, Sweden's environment minister, pictured above in September 2014. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty)

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Sweden backs EU climate line for Paris

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, October 5, 2015 at 08:22 — Last Updated: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 14:54
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Sweden’s minister for the Environment Åsa Romson joined EU environmental ministers in Brussels last week ahead of the United Nations Climate

Ida Karlsson. (Michaela Lundell/Sverige Radio)

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Fast test for toxic fungi in Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 18:31 — Last Updated: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 15:40
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It’s the mushroom season here in Sweden, with lots of people searching the forests for edible delights. But not every