No take off for flight-shaming in northern Norway, but northern Sweden sees fall in air passengers
With 2019 being the year when ‘Flight shame’ was introduced as a social movement aimed at boycotting air travel to
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Trump, Greenland & the black carbon debate: Arctic stories to watch for in 2020 with Cryopolitics’ Mia Bennett
As 2020 gets underway, Eye on the Arctic is checking in with northern experts for their take on what to
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Meteorologists should watch the tropics rather than the Arctic to predict extreme cold in North America, study says
Meteorologists often look at the behaviour of the polar vortex to predict extreme cold events in North America, but the
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Compilation: Mining and drilling in the Arctic
Arctic countries are showing a growing interest in the region’s natural resources. While some states are cancelling their plans for
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2018 drought took toll on Swedish farmers’ mental and fiscal health, research says
A new study by Lund University shows farmers’s health and financial situation suffered from the hot, dry summer of 2018.
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Goldman Sachs will no longer fund drilling in Arctic refuge sacred to First Nations
In the wake of a U.S. banking giant’s announcement that it will no longer invest in new oil projects in
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Sweden to make all laws follow its climate targets
The government has presented Sweden’s first ever ‘climate policy action plan’ which describes how they will work over the next
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Finland ‘disappointed’ by COP25 failure
The US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement made a new deal more difficult, according to the Environment Minister. UN
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Compilation: Nuclear energy in the Arctic
How are Arctic countries using nuclear energy and what are the debates about it? A look back at Eye on
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Finns favour nuclear power to fight climate change, poll says
Nearly half of all respondents to an Yle poll said they consider nuclear power to be a sustainable form of
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Equinor drops plan for oil transfer terminal at Veidnes in northern Norway
This Arctic beauty spot will remain exactly that; a beauty spot. The costs of constructing an oil terminal at Veidnes
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Large swaths of Iceland still without power Wednesday after winter megastorm
Much of northern and eastern Iceland remained without power Wednesday afternoon after a winter storm raged across the country this
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New ship to handle all nuclear waste from Rosatom’s operations in Russian Arctic
The new special purpose vessel will serve the new icebreakers and the floating nuclear power plants and possible other reactor
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‘This is positive’: global carbon emissions set to grow slowly in 2019
Global carbon emissions rose only 0.6 percent in 2019 due to a decline in the worldwide use of coal, according
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International Inuit leaders and youth take climate message to COP25 in Madrid
A group of international Inuit leaders will be attending the COP25 climate conference in Madrid, and is calling on Arctic
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