Climate change leads snowshoe hares to Arctic Alaska
Though abundant over much of mainland Alaska, snowshoe hares were, until recently, absent from the state’s northernmost Arctic region. When did they
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Environment
Ice-Blog: Farewell to ‘Last Ice’ victims
Ice Blog readers may remember the story of the two ice researchers and polar explorers who died when they broke
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Fossil-Free Sweden initiative aims to lead by example
A new initative called Fossilfritt Sverige, or Fossil-free Sweden, was launched on Wednesday by the government, ahead of the upcoming
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Temperature record broken in Finland
A balmy 14.1 degrees Celsius was recorded in Vuosaari Harbour just before noon on Tuesday, according to the Finnish Meteorological
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Baltic Sea health shows improvement: researchers
The health of the highly-polluted Baltic Sea appears to be improving. Despite continuing periodic algae blooms and dead zones in
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Finland: Warm November start after dry October
Following one of the sunniest Octobers ever, November is off to an exceptionally mild start in southern and central Finland.
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Greenpeace activists divert Helsinki-bound coal ship
Early Sunday morning the environmental activist group Greenpeace managed to board and get a coal-carrying freighter on its way from
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Feature Interview: The politics of climate
As the dust settles after Canada’s marathon 78-day federal election campaign, post mortems are being done on the issues that did, and didn’t,
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Will climate force small mammals North?
Populations of furry mammals ranging from tiny shrews, mice and voles to stocky wolverines and marmots will likely move north
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Ice-blog: Arctic plastic “garbage patches”
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
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
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
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
If an Alaska resident spots a musk ox floating on ice sea ice adjacent to a western Alaska game management
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Police hunt for wild boar in Swedish city
Police in central Malmö, Sweden had an unusual call-out Tuesday night, to hunt for a wild boar which had been
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