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Finland General Society Society (Finland) 

Finland: Health threat as wood heat gets popular?

Yle News
Posted: Friday, October 30, 2015 at 16:02 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 16:38
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Wood use has risen in the past decade, but officials warn that its emissions may cause hundreds of deaths annually.

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Åsa Romson, Sweden's environment minister, pictured above in September 2014. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty)
Environment Environment (Sweden) General Special Features Sweden 

Sweden backs EU climate line for Paris

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, October 5, 2015 at 08:22 — Last Updated: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 14:54
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Sweden’s minister for the Environment Åsa Romson joined EU environmental ministers in Brussels last week ahead of the United Nations Climate

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General Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Sweden focuses on jobs and climate in budget

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, September 21, 2015 at 15:17 — Last Updated: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 20:19
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Sweden’s government presented its 2016 budget proposal Monday morning, with a focus on job creation, education and climate issues, Swedish Radio

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Environment Environment (USA) General Special Features USA 

Scientists race to understand thawing permafrost

Asaf Shalev, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, September 21, 2015 at 13:04 — Last Updated: Monday, September 21, 2015 at 20:27
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FAIRBANKS — Until recently, climate models, which predict everything from sea level rise to temperature increase, have largely ignored or glossed over permafrost,

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Greenpeace Finland program manager Sini Harkki. (Kalle Mäkelä / Yle)
Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General 

Greenpeace calls for reassessment of Finnish environmental policy

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, July 16, 2015 at 15:28 — Last Updated: Friday, July 17, 2015 at 18:55
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Greenpeace Finland’s program manager Sini Harkki says Finland would benefit from a new appraisal of its environmental protection commitments. In

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How will climate change effect Sweden's coastal cities, like Umeå (pictured above), in northern Sweden. (iStock)
Environment Environment (Sweden) General Sweden 

How will global warming affect the average Swede?

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, July 16, 2015 at 13:37 — Last Updated: Friday, July 17, 2015 at 18:55
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Researchers have begun to describe what a warmer, wetter Sweden will look like and how people will need to adapt.

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Delegates attend the Arctic Council Ministerial meeting Friday, April 24, 2015 in Iqaluit, Nunavut. Ministers from the eight Arctic nations and the leaders of northern indigenous groups form the Council. (Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press)
Arctic-Council-2015 Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) Special Features Special Reports 

Feature Interview: The Arctic Council – What was accomplished and where we go from here

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, May 1, 2015 at 20:27 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 12:52
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The Arctic Council Chairmanship passed from Canada to the United States last week. It was a time to look back

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Environment Environment (Sweden) General Sweden 

Business and environmentalists unite in Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 13:18 — Last Updated: Friday, April 10, 2015 at 21:54
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A number of major corporations are calling for higher taxes on carbon dioxide emissions and more ambitious climate goals than

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(iStock)
Environment Environment (Sweden) General Special Features Sweden 

Introduce carbon tax on meat and flights say Swedish researchers

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, March 2, 2015 at 18:50 — Last Updated: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 16:47
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The amount of carbon dioxide emissions within Swedish borders has decreased, but the total amount of emissions caused by Swedish

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The tugs Aiviq and Nanuq tow the mobile drilling unit Kulluk 80 miles southwest of Kodiak City, Alaska on Dec. 29, 2012. (Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis / United States Coast Guard / AP)
Blog Business Business (USA) General Special Features USA 

Ice-Blog: Arctic oil – still in the picture

Irene Quaile
Posted: Monday, February 2, 2015 at 19:21 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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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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Tromso: the gateway to the Arctic. (Irene Quaile)
Blog Environment Environment (Norway) General Norway 

Ice-Blog: Climate worry grows at Arctic Frontiers

Irene Quaile
Posted: Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 20:47 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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I have followed the past two days, the political section of the Arctic Frontiers conference, with great interest, with the

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Tromso, the home of Arctic Frontiers. (Irene Quaile)
Blog Business Business (Norway) General Norway 

Ice-Blog: Arctic Oil – a white elephant?

Irene Quaile
Posted: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 16:36 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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The conference: Arctic Frontiers has attracted a record number of participants this year and huge media interest. For the first time in

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Melting… (I.Quaile)
Blog Environment General 

Ice-Blog: Arctic icon in decline

Irene Quaile
Posted: Monday, November 24, 2014 at 19:27 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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As I plan my coverage of this year’s annual UN climate conference, this time in Peru, a news item from WWF pops

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Scientists set up a “mesocosm” to measure ocean acidification Spitzbergen 2010. (Irene Quaile)
Blog 

Ice-Blog: Acid Arctic Ocean and Russell Brand?

Irene Quaile
Posted: Friday, October 31, 2014 at 20:02 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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Is ocean acidification a term you are familiar with? If you are a regular Ice Blog reader, I would like

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Ice Blogger’s trip to Point Barrow in 2008. (Irene Quaile)
Blog Environment Environment (USA) General USA 

Ice-Blog: Can UN and EU take the heat off Alaska?

Irene Quaile
Posted: Friday, October 24, 2014 at 20:59 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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It is with a heavy heart that I write this first blog post since my holiday, catching up with the

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Wide shot of the Centennial Flame with the Parliament building behind
The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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