Microplastics found in waters off Svalbard
Microplastics, the tiny plastic particles that are accumulating in marine waters and big lakes around the world, are now showing
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Environment
Norway app helps reaction to oil spills
How large the impact from an oil spill occurrence is, depends on how quickly the clean-up begins. While operational crews
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Sweden to study Russian wolf DNA
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
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?
When it comes to rousing young people’s interest in climate change, the Arctic and Antarctic seem to be a good
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Ice, shipping and the Northwest Passage
New findings from on-site research have found that ice in the Northwest passage can still be too thick and ice
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Swedish wolves need more genetic diversity: study
A new report commissioned by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency says Sweden needs at least 300 wolves to maintain a
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Sweden backs EU climate line for Paris
Sweden’s minister for the Environment Åsa Romson joined EU environmental ministers in Brussels last week ahead of the United Nations Climate
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Fast test for toxic fungi in Sweden
It’s the mushroom season here in Sweden, with lots of people searching the forests for edible delights. But not every
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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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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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