Blog: Arctic SOS to Climate COP26 – urgent action needed to avert weather catastrophe
With the final countdown running for the UN climate conference, COP26, in Glasgow, the mood is shifting between desperate hope
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Environment
City in Arctic Russia cooling ground to preserve buildings on thawing permafrost
Rising Arctic temperatures are causing permafrost to thaw, putting the world’s largest city built on frozen ground in deep trouble.
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‘Stay vigilant and stay aware’: grizzly bear attack serves as precautionary tale to Yukoners in northwest Canada
A grizzly bear attack left a person severely injured on Monday, says Environment official A person is recovering after being
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Winter comes early to Scandinavia
A cold wind brought snow to all inland areas above the Arctic Circle in Finland, Norway and Sweden. With temperatures
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Norwegian and Russian fishermen get 20% cut in Barents cod quotas
But the quota level is still on a historically high level, negotiators say after Norwegian and Russian fishery authorities sign
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Wintry weather hits Finland with 20cm snow accumulation in Northern Lapland
The autumn holiday for Finnish schoolchildren may seem more like a winter vacation with subzero temperatures in Lapland and snow
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Northern Sweden could see up to 30 cm of snow this weekend
The national weather service has issued a class one warning – its most moderate on a scale of three, for
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Nunavut, Canada breaks 47 daily temperature records in 1st 6 days of October
‘We are expecting a warmer than normal fall for the territory,’ says meteorologist Justin Shelley So far, October is off
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Radioactive time bombs will be lifted from ocean floor in 2030
The two rusty nuclear submarines K-27 and K-159 will be raised from the sea bed of the Barents- and Kara
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‘So big and so happy’: Voting underway in Alaska’s annual Fat Bear Week contest
Winner last year weighed an estimated 630 kilograms A contest to determine the beefiest brown bear is underway in Alaska.
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25th anniversary of Norway’s financing of nuclear-dump cleanup in Arctic Russia
On Wednesday, Rosatom officials and Norwegian project partners marked that it is 25 years since the first money check was
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Flooding in Finland is getting worse, new climate report says
Pori and Rovaniemi are among the areas to be worst affected in the coming decades, the Finnish Climate Change Panel
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How floor repair of ‘igloo church’ in Arctic Canada could offer deeper look into North’s permafrost
The church is no outlier — several buildings in the community are affected by freeze-thaw cycle of permafrost Even an
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Climate change accelerating despite pledges to “build back better” during pandemic, report
A report organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) paints a concerning picture of accelerating climate impacts and increasing emissions,
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Polar bears may be inbreeding as climate change melts away Arctic ice
Polar bears in Svalbard have undergone a shocking loss in genetic diversity, says a Norwegian study. Snorre Hagen and Simo
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