ENVIRONMENT

Finnish youth on strike for climate action

27 September 2019 10 h 32 min — 27 September 2019 18 h 11 min Tahira Sequeira and Egan Richardson, Yle News 1 Comment ACTIVISM, climate change, Helsinki, youth

Some 18,000 people gathered in central Helsinki to demand action on greenhouse gas emissions, part of a nationwide wave of

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Climate activists block cruise ship in Helsinki

26 September 2019 13 h 47 min Yle News 0 Comments ACTIVISM, climate change, cruise ships, cruises, Extinction Rebellion, global warming, Helsinki

Cruise ship visitors were delayed in Helsinki on Wednesday evening after climate activists blocked the MS Queen Elizabeth at Hernesaari

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Inuit group and NGOs renew calls for Arctic heavy fuel oil ban

26 September 2019 12 h 05 min — 27 September 2019 10 h 35 min Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments black carbon, Clean Arctic Alliance, heavy fuel oil, HFO, indigenous, Inuit

An Inuit organization and a coalition of environmental NGOs renewed Wednesday their call for urgent action to ban ships sailing

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Blog – Documentary will show climate change through eyes of pioneering scientist

26 September 2019 9 h 22 min — 27 September 2019 13 h 34 min Mia Bennett 0 Comments carbon capture, climate change, film, global warming, history, Peter Wadhams, United Kingdom

British filmmaker Cal Murphy Barton is producing a documentary about a scientist who has witnessed five decades of Arctic sea

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Sea level rise to provoke ‘profound governance challenges’ & ‘difficult social choices’ says UN climate report

25 September 2019 14 h 44 min — 27 September 2019 13 h 34 min Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments climate change, greenhouse gases, ICC, indigenous, IPCC, Monaco, Monica Ell-Kanayuk, University of Alberta

Climate change in the world’s polar regions is affecting every corner of the planet and urgent action is needed to

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What an ice-free Arctic really means, and why it matters so much

25 September 2019 14 h 08 min — 26 September 2019 9 h 30 min Nicole Mortillaro, CBC News 1 Comment Antarctica, Arctic Ocean, climate change, global warming, ice shelf, IPCC, sea ice

At Earth’s poles, ice and snow is disappearing — and it’s transforming our planet. Snow and ice have long played

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IPCC climate report warns “extreme sea level events” will occur frequently

25 September 2019 11 h 48 min — 25 September 2019 11 h 53 min Radio Sweden 0 Comments climate change, cryosphere, disasters, global warming, IPCC, oceans, United Nations

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns in a new report that the impacts of climate change will

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How will Finland become carbon neutral by 2035?

25 September 2019 10 h 39 min — 25 September 2019 14 h 10 min Egan Richardson, Yle News 0 Comments carbon neutral, climate change, global warming, POLICY, subsidies, youth

Finland’s international profile as a climate change trailblazer has been enhanced this year by ambitious targets set by the government

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Walruses attack, sink small navy craft in Arctic Russia

24 September 2019 13 h 07 min — 24 September 2019 15 h 36 min Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Franz Josef Land, military, Northern Fleet, walrus, wildlife

Expedition participants from the Northern Fleet and Russian Geographical Society all managed to get to shore after their landing boat

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Climate change threatens security and industry, Russian PM says

24 September 2019 9 h 57 min — 24 September 2019 9 h 59 min Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 1 Comment climate change, disasters, Dmitry Medvedev, global warming, Paris Agreement, permafrost

This week, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a government decree on the Paris Agreement. “The participation in this process

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Alaska remote diesel generators win exemption from pollution rule

23 September 2019 10 h 02 min Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments air pollution, Alaska, diesel, energy, legislation, remote communities, rural

Congress has passed a bill to exempt diesel generators in rural Alaska from an air quality rule that village utilities

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North America’s bird population down three billion since 1970, Arctic breeders hit hard

20 September 2019 10 h 35 min Emily Chung, CBC News 0 Comments Biodiversity, birds, conservation, Ornithology, wildlife

There are nearly three billion fewer birds in Canada and the United States than there were half a century ago,

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First snow in northwest Finland no surprise to reindeer herders

19 September 2019 16 h 18 min Yle News 0 Comments Lapland, snow, weather

The first snow of the season fell in Finland’s northwestern arm on Wednesday morning, from the village of Karesuvanto in

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Yukon Energy to launch new round of consultation on Southern Lakes water level project in Arctic Canada

18 September 2019 6 h 00 min CBC News 0 Comments Bennett Lake, Lake, Marsh Lake, Tagish Lake, Whitehorse, Yukon Energy

Yukon Energy is launching another round of public consultations on a proposal to raise the water levels in Southern Lakes,

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Climate change is about to divide Norway’s largest Arctic island

17 September 2019 10 h 35 min — 20 September 2019 13 h 59 min Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments climate change, environment, Glacier, Greenland, Hornsundbreen, ice, Norway, Spitsbergen, Svalbard

The front of Hornsundbreen glacier in Arctic Norway is retreating every year and will eventually open a new strait between