Blog: Ceci n’est pas une pipe: The surrealism of Russia’s three new Arctic pipelines
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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Ice extent still well below normal in Arctic
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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Direct Central European flight arrives in Lapland
A direct scheduled flight route has been opened between Finnish Lapland and Central Europe. The first plane to fly the
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Germany, Iceland cooperate on new transpolar port
The German company Bremenports has concluded an agreement with Icelandic authorities and the Icelandic engineering company Elfa on a
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Sweden’s Greens torn on Vattenfall’s coal mines
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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Arctic Challenge Exercise begins over North Sweden
The Arctic Challenge Exercise, one of the biggest military plane exercises of the year, began Monday in the north of
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Ice-Blog: Will Paris conference help the Arctic?
Things are hotting up on the international climate talks front, with one event after another telling us how important it
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Sweden – Vattenfall wants to sell-off brown coal operations
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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New Greenpeace protest against Arctic oil
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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Finland’s Niinistö to attend Munich security conference
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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‘Poverty porn,’ Obama & Inuit health: Arctic week in review
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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Ice-Blog: Thick Antarctic ice not sign of cooling
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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Push back on Baltic dumping ban criticized in Sweden
Some countries are pushing back on a ban that would forbid cruise ships from dumping sewage waste in the Baltic
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Exports to Russia drop in Finland
New figures put Germany in the top spot for overseas sales as exports to Russia dropped sharply in the last
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Sweden’s Vattenfall: Coal to play important role in future
In the wake of the Ukraine crisis and Germany’s nuclear shutdown Swedish-state-owned Vattenfall is supplying even more energy from coal.
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