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Finland’s solar industry lags behind sector leaders, despite recent breakthrough

Yle News
Posted: Friday, July 14, 2017 at 17:20
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Finland’s solar industry has made a breakthrough in recent years, according to one professor in the field, but the sector

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ARCTIC COUNCIL 2017 Blog General Geopolitics (USA) Politics USA 

Ice-Blog: Deciding Arctic future in Fairbanks and Bonn

Irene Quaile
Posted: Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 22:58 — Last Updated: Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 23:44
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It is hard to tell where the most influential conversations on the future of the Arctic are being held right

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Environment Environment (Russia) General Russia 

Dangerous radioactive reactors soon to be lifted off the waters in Russia

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, January 30, 2017 at 20:00
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15 more Cold War sub reactor compartments to be taken on-shore and secured at the long-term storage complex in Saida

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Blog Environment Environment (Russia) General Russia 

Blog: Ceci n’est pas une pipe: The surrealism of Russia’s three new Arctic pipelines

Mia Bennett
Posted: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at 17:25 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at 18:49
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On January 18, Russia’s state owned gas company, Gazprom, opened a new pipeline stretching from the frozen Bovanenkovskoye gas field

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Environment Environment (USA) General Science USA 

Ice extent still well below normal in Arctic

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, May 6, 2016 at 13:55
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Arctic sea-ice extent in April was probably at a record low for the month, continuing this year’s trend of record

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Business Business (Finland) Finland General 

Direct Central European flight arrives in Lapland

Yle News
Posted: Monday, December 21, 2015 at 14:31 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 16:37
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A direct scheduled flight route has been opened between Finnish Lapland and Central Europe. The first plane to fly the

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Business Business (Iceland) General Iceland 

Germany, Iceland cooperate on new transpolar port

Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, October 19, 2015 at 13:21 — Last Updated: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 19:02
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  The German company Bremenports has concluded an agreement with Icelandic authorities and the Icelandic engineering company Elfa on a

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Vattenfall's coal mine in Welzow sûd in Eastern Germany. (Pelle Zettersten/Sveriges Radio)
General Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Sweden’s Greens torn on Vattenfall’s coal mines

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, July 2, 2015 at 14:54 — Last Updated: Friday, July 3, 2015 at 17:39
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Green Party members from all over the country gather in Örebro for the party’s first ever congress as a member

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A Swedish Air Force’s JAS 39 Gripen jet fighter in 2011. (Patric Soderstrom/AP)
General Politics Politics (Sweden) Special Features Sweden 

Arctic Challenge Exercise begins over North Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, May 25, 2015 at 12:41 — Last Updated: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at 20:16
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The Arctic Challenge Exercise, one of the biggest military plane exercises of the year, began Monday in the north of

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Preparing for Paris: Staff at UNFCCC headquarters in Bonn are working overtime. (Irene Quaile/Deutsche Welle)
Blog Environment Environment (Iceland) General Iceland Special Features 

Ice-Blog: Will Paris conference help the Arctic?

Irene Quaile
Posted: Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 16:00 — Last Updated: Friday, May 22, 2015 at 19:13
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Things are hotting up on the international climate talks front, with one event after another telling us how important it

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Environment Environment (Sweden) General Sweden 

Sweden – Vattenfall wants to sell-off brown coal operations

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, April 13, 2015 at 16:55 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 14:40
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State-owned energy company Vattenfall wants to sell-off its brown (lignite) coal operations in Germany to meet climate change goals, its

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Greenpeace protests Arctic oil drilling in Hamburg, Germany. (Daniel Müller / Greenpeace)
Business Business (Russia) General Russia 

New Greenpeace protest against Arctic oil

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, March 30, 2015 at 15:50 — Last Updated: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 19:23
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The environmental organization makes a second move against the tanker “Mikhail Ulyanov” as it enters the port of Hamburg. Greenpeace used

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Finnish President Sauli Niinistö at a press conference in Russia in August 2014. (Ivan Sekretarev /AFP/Getty Images)
Finland General Politics Politics (Finland) 

Finland’s Niinistö to attend Munich security conference

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 18:20 — Last Updated: Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 22:45
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Finland’s president Sauli Niinistö is to attend this year’s Munich Security Conference this weekend. He will join a panel discussion

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Greenpeace activist dressed like a polar bear in Prague, Czech Republic on October 13, 2014. (Michal Cizek/AFP/Getty Images)
Blog Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

‘Poverty porn,’ Obama & Inuit health: Arctic week in review

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, January 23, 2015 at 21:45 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 12:59
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On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories on Eye on the Arctic this

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Sea ice can be very thick…even in a warming world (Irene Quaile)
Blog Environment General Special Features 

Ice-Blog: Thick Antarctic ice not sign of cooling

Irene Quaile
Posted: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 16:29 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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The recent publication of a study on Arctic ice as measured by the “yellow submarine”, an underwater robot, caused a flurry of

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