Ice-blog: Norway’s polar satellite centre
Polar orbit satellites monitor what’s happening at the ends of the planet – and, of course, the regions in between.
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Special Features
Norwegian flies into aviation dispute with Russia
CEO of Norwegian Air Shuttle, Bjørn Kjos, says Russian airliners should be denied to overfly Norwegian territory. His Dreamliner is
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Finland mining CEO charged with environmental crime
Eastern Finland’s District Prosecutor Heikki Ylisirniö has pressed charges against Pekka Perä, the CEO of the Talvivaara mine, for
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Russian oil production to drop by 70,000 barrels a day in 2015 – OPEC
Given the impact of sanctions, low prices and the absence of any large projects expected to come on-line, oil production
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Blog: Norilsk, Russia -The inescapability of the company town on Russia’s tundra
There are many ways of framing Arctic climate change. On the one hand, countries in the south often see themselves as
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New guidelines for polar shipping
As more and more ships travel through polar waters, new training guidelines for their masters, navigators, and crews have been
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Stymied in the Lower 48, Alberta floats idea of moving tar-sands oil through Alaska
Officials in the Canadian province of Alberta say they hope to talk to Alaska leaders about shipping tar-sands crude oil
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‘Ultimate Survival Alaska’ star James Sweeney has mixed feelings about reality TV fame
If you’ve watched the reality TV show “Ultimate Survival Alaska,” you know James Sweeney. In a field of mild, mostly
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Nuclear waste cooperation with Russia will continue says Norway
“It is timely to look into what we are going to spend Norwegian money on. Russia must take responsibility,” says
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Ice-Blog: Sharing Arctic ocean data
This week I had an interesting conversation with Professor Karen Wiltshire, who is deputy director of Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute for
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Russia to give indigenous peoples priority in Barents chairmanship
“We are in dialogue, not confrontation,” says Aleksandr Zelenov from the Foreign Ministry in Moscow. A regional indigenous peoples summit
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Climate change will lead to ecosystem clash
New research shows that species from the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans soon will start to mix. This could have
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Ice-Blog: Arctic oil – still in the picture
Was it too good to be true? The euphoria over the US administration’s moves to protect the Arctic National Wildlife
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Russian bomber intercepted by Norwegian F-16s carried nuclear warhead
A Norwegian military listening post intercepted cockpit conversations revealing that one of the Tu-95 flying around the coast of Norway
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Shell says it plans to drill in Alaska’s Arctic in 2015
Shell says it plans to drill in offshore waters in Alaska’s Arctic in 2015, even as it retrenches on capital
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