Arctic Report Card 2025: Rainfall, record warmth and rapid change
Higher air temperatures, record precipitation and accelerating environmental change continue to reshape the northern environment, according to the annual Arctic
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New study links bacterial strain to muskox deaths in Canada’s High Arctic
A recent wave of muskox deaths in Canada’s Arctic archipelago has been traced to a particularly aggressive strain of bacteria,
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Blog: 2026—Reform the UN COPs but look beyond for rapid climate action
The United Nations COP 30 in Belém, Brazil, was not the decisive gathering that changed the world and set us
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As the Arctic coastline erodes, a new report says Canada needs to do more to protect it
By Tori Fitzpatrick Three territories lack dedicated shoreline management plans, report says A recent report says Canada is not doing
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“Mercury can leak out and become a threat to marine life”
By Elizaveta Vereykina “Old mercury pollution that nature has stored for us can leak out and become a threat to
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Facing rapid Arctic warming, Inuit call for full voice in COP30 climate decisions
With all eyes on the COP30 climate talks in Belém, underway in Brazil this week, the organization representing Inuit internationally
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Weather above normal for 18 consecutive months
By Elizaveta Vereykina New temperature records in Norway and northern Russia suggest that this could be the warmest autumn in a
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Blog: COP30 in Brazil—Same procedure as every year? I hope not
As world leaders head for Brazil to focus on climate change, it is time for realism, pragmatism – and maybe
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Proposal: Sweden’s 2030 climate targets to remain unchanged
Sweden should keep its climate emissions targets agreed upon for 2030, but adapt them to harmonise with the EU’s base
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Europe’s top rights court rejects climate challenge against Norway’s Arctic oil
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ruled in favor of Norway’s government in a climate lawsuit brought by
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How the Arctic has been ‘pushed & triggered’ into climate extremes: paper
As the Arctic warms at an unprecedented rate, a new scientific review outlines how events once considered rare — from
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Net-Zero Framework for int’l shipping shelved for a year after U.S. led-pushback
After a week of high-stakes debate and U.S.-led opposition, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) voted on Friday for a one-year
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Sweden and Finland urge revision of EU’s forestry climate targets
Sweden and Finland could suffer “dire” economic consequences if they are forced to harvest less forest in order to meet
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Northern summer varies from unusually warm exceptionally warm
Finland recorded 20 days with temperatures above 30 °C in July, while Norway noted an average temperature 2,8 °C above normal. That
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Whitehorse saw driest June in nearly a century
If it seemed drier than normal last month in Whitehorse, you weren’t imagining it — the city saw the lowest amount
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