Will Sweden be 1st fossil-free welfare state?
Addressing the United Nation’s General Assembly on Saturday, Swedish Prime Minster Stefan Löfven said his nation would work toward becoming one
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Environment
Alaska scientist teaches Church about climate
Glenn Juday, a devout Roman Catholic and an ecologist, had been working on climate education within the Roman Catholic Church
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The new face of climate change?
German tourists aboard a cruise through the Hinlopen Strait in Svalbard this summer were approaching a yellow dot on an ice-floe,
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Permafrost thaw to cost global economy trillions
Permafrost may be mostly invisible underground, but the consequences of its thawing will be anything but. That’s according to a
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Scientists race to understand thawing permafrost
FAIRBANKS — Until recently, climate models, which predict everything from sea level rise to temperature increase, have largely ignored or glossed over permafrost,
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Russian oil company studies polar bears
State company Rosneft spends more than 120 million rubles on studies of the Russian polar bear. Company representative Pavel Rassadkin
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Ancient virus found in Arctic permafrost
Scientists have found a previously unknown giant virus in the permafrost of Siberia, a discovery they say is worrying at
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Invasive plant threatens Sweden
An East Asian plant called Japanese knotweed has put down roots in the south of Sweden. Despite being classified as
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North Sweden on lookout for raccoon dogs
As the moose-hunting season kicks off in northern Sweden, hunters are being encouraged to keep an eye out for the
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Russia – Norway polar bear count nixed
Russian scientists are disappointed that a planned Norwegian-Russian polar bear inventory was cancelled because of lack of good will from
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Climate compromise needed: Swedish official
The Bonn Climate change conference ends on Friday and time is running out to achieve a compromise ahead of the
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Russia to open research center on Svalbard
The center will be conducting meteorological research, Minister of Natural Resources Sergey Donskoy says. “The finances for a scientific center
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Sweden’s Ojnare forest becomes protected area
The government has decided that the Ojnare forest on the Baltic Island of Gotland needs to be protected for its
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Research ship returning from Greenland echoes worries about ocean plastics
When one thinks about rich ecosystems that are vital for life on Earth, rainforests might first come to mind, but ocean
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Obama sends host gifts ahead of Alaska visit
President Barack Obama may be traveling into unfriendly political territory as he heads north to Alaska Monday, but he has
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