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* Featured * Environment Environment (Norway) Featured • Zone 3 General Norway 

Svalbard glacier once survived a warmer climate

The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:22
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By Elizaveta Vereykina This may indicate that that future increases in snowfall could moderate glacier retreat in similar settings. A new study has found

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Sweden) Featured • Zone 3 News 

Kebnekaise’s southern peak has not shrunk any further this year

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 14:50
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Sweden’s highest mountain Kebnekaise’s southern peak has not shrunk further over the last year, scientists say. The southern peak had

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Iceland) Featured • Zone 3 General Iceland News 

Natural event seems to slow Icelandic glacier melt

Mathiew Leiser, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at 16:44
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A natural phenomenon appearing to cool the ocean near Iceland has likely slowed the melting of the island’s glaciers since

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Environment Environment (Norway) Norway 

Climate change hits back at Svalbard, coal mine flooded by melting glacier in Norway

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, July 30, 2020 at 12:18
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Large water penetration in Gruve 7 (Mine 7) was discovered on Sunday July 26 during a routine inspection, the Store Norske

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Environment Environment (Norway) General News Norway 

Climate change is about to divide Norway’s largest Arctic island

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 10:35 — Last Updated: Friday, September 20, 2019 at 13:59
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The front of Hornsundbreen glacier in Arctic Norway is retreating every year and will eventually open a new strait between

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Denmark/Greenland Environment Environment (Denmark/Greenland) General News 

Faster ice melt in Greenland could mean stronger hurricanes for North America’s East Coast: study

Priscilla Hwang, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 10:52 — Last Updated: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 11:01
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Ice is melting in an unexpected region of Greenland at a rate that is unprecedented in the past century, according

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Environment Environment (Sweden) General News Sweden 

Glacier in central Sweden “collapsing” as climate warms

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, December 3, 2018 at 11:00
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One of the Scandinavian glaciers has broken up because of the unusually warm summer, reports P4 Jämtland. Tomas Bergström who

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Environment Environment (Sweden) General Sweden 

Melting ice brings down Sweden’s highest mountain peak

Frank Radosevich, Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 09:34 — Last Updated: Friday, August 10, 2018 at 15:32
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The summer’s hot weather has reduced Sweden’s highest mountaintop to second place. The south peak of Kebnekaise was once the

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Arctic-Council-2015 General Politics Politics (USA) Special Features Special Reports USA 

US pushes ambitious Arctic Council goals

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 14:04 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 14:14
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Just six months into the United States’ chairmanship of the Arctic Council, events have “already moved the ball forward enormously”

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This Aug. 27, 2014 file photo shows Mount McKinley in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. President Barack Obama on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015 said he's changing the name of the tallest mountain in North America from Mount McKinley to Denali. (Becky Bohrer/ File / AP)
Environment Environment (USA) General USA 

Obama sends host gifts ahead of Alaska visit

Erica Martinson, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, August 31, 2015 at 18:49 — Last Updated: Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at 20:31
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President Barack Obama may be traveling into unfriendly political territory as he heads north to Alaska Monday, but he has

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Feature

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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