Do polar bears and penguins live in Sweden?
Some myths are a lot more difficult to upend than others – and this particular one seems to be immortal
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Finland: Left, Greens and Norilsk Nickel weigh in on Harjavalta leak
Left Alliance committee calls for Pori river check-up; Green League VP chides environmental administration; metal factory Norilsk Nickel claims responsibility
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Arctic air clearer after Soviet Union’s collapse, long-term study says
The clouds of black carbon soiling snow and ice in Finland’s Arctic region have diminished significantly since the middle of
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Ice-Blog: World Cup Champs for Arctic Climate?
Chancellor Merkel is on her way from the World Cup Final in Brazil to Berlin, where she will address the
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Risks as Russian military planes fly under the radar near Sweden
Safety for civil airplanes is being threatened, as more and more foreign military planes, often Russian, fly anonymously in the
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Arctic seas: little ability to cope with an oil spill
A new report suggests little is known how an oil spill in the Arctic would act or spread in icy
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Lapland to host Finland’s biggest mine
The Kevitsa mine in Sodankylä is to become Finland’s largest mine after it was granted permission to expand. The North
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Slideshow: The secrets of Manitoba’s boreal forests
When most people think about Canada’s province of Manitoba, they think about prairies. But in reality, Manitoba is home to
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Sweden: Cleaner Baltic to yield billions
Sweden stands to gain SEK 27 billion per year and 70,000 new jobs if the Baltic Sea is cleaned up,
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Researchers turn to satellite monitoring to count polar bear populations
For polar bears, iconic Arctic animals that are coping with diminished sea ice and a rapidly-changing habitat, population numbers are
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OECD ‘concerned’ over high suicide rates in Finland
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) says in a new report that Finland should spend more money on
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Sweden: Climate change speeds up Baltic Sea algal blooms
Algal blooms in the Baltic Sea are starting earlier that before, a new study shows, a result that might be
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Nunavut game company offers tech scholarship
A Nunavut game company known for it’s Inuit language games and apps is offering a new scholarship for students interested
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Bear hunt quota worries reindeer herders in Sweden’s Arctic
The middle of August starts bear hunting season and the number of bears to be shot in northern Sweden is
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Spearheads found in Finland’s Arctic
Archaeologists in Finland are celebrating the discovery of a number of artefacts in Lapland, Finland’s northernmost region. A series of
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