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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Environment
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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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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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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