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The iron mine of Swedish state-owned mining company LKAB (Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara Aktiebolag) in Kiruna, Lapland. (Jonathan Nackstrand /AFP/Getty Images)

Thunderstorms in Arctic Sweden cost mining company

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Posted: Friday, September 26, 2014 at 13:11 — Last Updated: Friday, September 26, 2014 at 21:10
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The intense thunderstorms in Sweden this summer cost mining company LKAB hundreds of millions of kroner, due to forced standstills.

US icon sinking in melting ice? The photo was taken in the Arctic Ocean northwest of Svalbard the 7th of September 2014. (Christian Auslund / Greenpeace)

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Ice-Blog: The Arctic on the UN agenda

Irene Quaile
Posted: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 at 15:29 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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To those of us who deal with the Arctic on a regular basis, the significance of the melting ice for

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Ice-Blog: UN Climate Chief on New York summit

Irene Quaile
Posted: Monday, September 22, 2014 at 20:47 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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Your Ice Blogger has been busy with the New York climate summit around the corner. I was delighted to read

The Sami flag. (Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP)

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Sami leader harassed by police on way to UN conference

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, September 22, 2014 at 15:42 — Last Updated: Thursday, February 14, 2019 at 14:47
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Valentina Sovkina was on her way from Lovozero on Russia’s Kola Peninsula to the UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples.

A glacier in Tongass National Forest, Alaska. (iStock)

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NASA projects tracking changes in Alaska’s glaciers and Arctic atmosphere

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 19:22 — Last Updated: Friday, September 19, 2014 at 19:59
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The U.S. agency that explores outer space is also probing another frontier — the rapidly warming climate in Alaska and

A massive ocean sunfish (like the one pictured above) was spotted in Prince William Sound on Alaska's south coast this month. (iStock)

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Unusual species in Alaska waters indicate parts of Pacific warming dramatically

Craig Medred, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Monday, September 15, 2014 at 15:54 — Last Updated: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 at 19:16
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A giant hotspot in the North Pacific Ocean may help explain why a massive ocean sunfish was spotted in Prince

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Sweden: huge insurance bill for Malmö floods

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Posted: Thursday, September 11, 2014 at 14:31 — Last Updated: Thursday, September 11, 2014 at 22:17
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The recent floods in Malmö are estimated to have cost at least SEK 250 million, Swedish Radio News reports. Three

The Greenland ice sheet is melting faster. Scientists also report a decreasing albedo with snow becoming darker. (Irene Quaile)

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Ice-Blog: Coal, climate, cryosphere

Irene Quaile
Posted: Wednesday, September 3, 2014 at 20:14 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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Fossil fuel power plants are still on the increase – committed carbon emissions are rising fast. At first glance you

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Ice-Blog: Arctic Economic Council – and the environment?

Irene Quaile
Posted: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 16:02 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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I would like to share my thoughts with you on the founding meeting of the Arctic Economic Council, taking place

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Archeologists uncover Inuit driftwood house in Canada’s western Arctic

Marc Montgomery, Radio Canada International
Posted: Friday, August 29, 2014 at 14:02 — Last Updated: Friday, March 16, 2018 at 10:07
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For archaeologists and anthropologists, it’s an extremely exciting and rare find. They have begun work on a rare site of

Potatoes are rotting in the ground in many places. (Gustaf Klarin/Sveriges Radio)

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Sweden’s potato farmers face big losses

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Posted: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 at 19:54 — Last Updated: Friday, August 29, 2014 at 21:43
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Potato farmers in Sweden’s Värmland region risk losing big parts of their crops because of intense rain. Farmer Gunnar Carlsson

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Blog: Field notes from Greenland – A glacier calves

Mia Bennett
Posted: Monday, August 25, 2014 at 11:40 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:33
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Part of Russell Glacier just east of the road from Kangerlussuaq up to the ice sheet collapsed into the river

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Sweden: More rain headed for flooded city of Kristinehamn

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Posted: Monday, August 25, 2014 at 09:00
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Council workers have laboured all weekend to clear the roads of the flooded city of Kristinehamn, Sweden and on Monday

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Ice-Blog: Polar melt confirmed from space

Irene Quaile
Posted: Friday, August 22, 2014 at 18:06 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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I am disappointed that there was so little mainstream media coverage (please correct me if I am wrong) of a

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Swedish waters rising faster than global average

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 at 11:06
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New research shows sea levels around Swedish coasts have risen much faster than the global average during the last two