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* Featured * Environment Environment (Sweden) Featured • Zone 3 General Sweden 

Climate adaptation funding cut in budget in Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 11:17
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Financing for climate adaptation to protect society from the worst effects of extreme weather has been reduced by a third

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Finland) Featured • Zone 3 Finland General 

Conservationists find more critically endangered Arctic fox cubs in Finnish Lapland

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 08:54
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The new discovery brings the estimated number of Arctic fox cubs born in Finland over the summer to 25. Two

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* Featured * Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 General News 

New research reveals vulnerability of Arctic water networks to global warming

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 at 15:39
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An international team, including experts from Canadian universities, has published new research shedding light on the vulnerability of Arctic water

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Finland) Featured • Zone 3 Finland General 

‘Varpu’ storm fells trees and cuts power in south, brings ‘first snow’ to Lapland

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 at 09:05
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Wind speeds of up to 35 metres per second were recorded in the south and east of Finland on Wednesday

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Denmark/Greenland Environment Environment (Denmark/Greenland) Featured • Zone 3 General Newsroom Picks • zone 1 

Stranded cruise ship pulled free at high tide in Greenland

The Associated Press
Posted: Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 11:38
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The luxury cruise ship MV Ocean Explorer was “successfully” pulled free in Greenland on Thursday, three days after running aground

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Environment Environment (Sweden) General Sweden 

Hunters concerned there are too few moose in the Swedish forests

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 16:41 — Last Updated: Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 09:46
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The number of European elk, or moose, in the Swedish forest has dropped by a third over the past ten

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* Featured * Environment Environment (USA) Featured • Zone 3 General USA 

Haaland cancels leases in Alaska’s Arctic Refuge

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at 17:27
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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has canceled all oil and gas leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, in a move

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Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 

North on pace for hottest summer ever recorded; strong, gusting winds expected in southern N.W.T.

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 13:45
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Several places in the North are on track to break records for the hottest summer ever recorded. Experts expected extreme

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Environment Environment (Canada) 

Yellowknife re-entry paused as winds expected to ‘accelerate’ fires near highway

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 09:06
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The re-entry of most essential workers into Yellowknife is being put on hold because high winds are expected to “accelerate”

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Environment Environment (Canada) 

Smoky weather and favourable winds limit wildfire activity near Hay River

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 11:20
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The wildfire threatening Hay River and Kátł’odeeche First Nation hasn’t moved any closer to the communities thanks to smokey weather,

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Environment Environment (Canada) 

Heavy precipitation, glacier runoff forces trail closure in Nunavut’s Auyuittuq Park

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 09:24
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Parks Canada has closed a popular hiking route in Nunavut’s Auyuittuq National Park amid concerns over heavy precipitation, glacier runoff,

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* Featured * Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 General News 

N.W.T. fires have released 97 megatonnes of carbon, says European agency

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Monday, August 28, 2023 at 13:48
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Territory on track to beat 2014 record for how much land has burned Wildfires in the N.W.T have emitted 97

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* Featured * Environment Featured • Zone 3 General News 

Record low 2022 Antarctic sea ice sparked emperor penguin breeding collapse:study

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Friday, August 25, 2023 at 15:58 — Last Updated: Friday, August 25, 2023 at 16:06
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The record low 2022 Antarctic sea ice in the central and eastern Bellingshausen Sea sparked the first recorded incident of wide-spread

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Norway) Featured • Zone 3 General News Norway 

Assessment looks at dust in Arctic and its impacts on Svalbard

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, August 24, 2023 at 15:46
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An international assessment has examined dust sources for Svalbard, and it recommends conducting continuous and direct measurements to enhance understanding

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Environment Environment (USA) Featured • Zone 3 General News Newsroom Picks • zone 1 USA 

Study shows microplastics can migrate to whale and dolphin tissue

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, August 22, 2023 at 16:00
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New research indicates that microplastics don’t just get ingested into marine mammal’s digestive tracts, but can migrate into their tissue.

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