Arctic ice extent stays clear of record low
Arctic sea ice extent for the month of July was lopsided, scientists said Wednesday. While ice clogged waters in northeast
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Russians wrap up Arctic ice floe research
An icebreaker sailed from Murmansk yesterday to pick up 17 scientists who have spent four months on an ice floe
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One year anniversary of historic forest fire in Sweden
Friday is exactly one year after an enormous forest fire broke out in Västmanland in central Sweden. And since the fire, forestry companies
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Clinton has ‘doubts’ about Obama’s Arctic drilling policies
In an interview with a New Hampshire television station, U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton expressed doubts about President Barack Obama’s decision
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Iceland blasts Arctic Five for exclusion from fishing agreement
Iceland says the recent Arctic fishing moratorium, signed by the five Arctic coastal states without Iceland’s participation, is ‘unacceptable’ and
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Finland: Summer 2015 poised to be chilliest in 50 years
In Finland, this summer is set to go down in the history books as perhaps the coldest on record –
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Beaufort, Chukchi and Bering waves are getting bigger: study
Waves grew bigger and spaced farther apart as ice cover diminished in the Arctic and sub-Arctic waters off Alaska and western Canada,
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Fishing, science missions and the end of diesel in the North? – Arctic week in review
On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this
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U.S. Coast Guard and scientists on Arctic mission
KODIAK — It’s about 5:45 a.m. on a dewy Tuesday morning, and an enthusiastic climatologist is preparing to board a U.S. Coast Guard flight over
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Wind power investments down in Sweden
Sweden’s wind power investments are slowing down, as there were no new orders for wind turbines in the second quarter,
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Ice-Blog: Can we still avert irreversible ice sheet melt?
Earlier this week, I was able to follow up my last talk with Professor Stefan Rahmstorf from the Potsdam Institute for
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Arctic countries ban fishing around North Pole
Decades ago, fishermen, fishery managers and environmentalists from Alaska and the Soviet Union put aside their nations’ differences to try
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How will global warming affect the average Swede?
Researchers have begun to describe what a warmer, wetter Sweden will look like and how people will need to adapt.
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Ice-Blog: Polar ice set for six-metre sea level rise?
Small increases in global average temperature may eventually lead to sea level rise of six metres or more, according to
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Snow cover nears record low across North
The Northern Hemisphere had a near-record low snow cover in June, especially in western Canada and Alaska, and the drier
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