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Business Business (Iceland) Iceland 

BLOG – In just 20 years, ships could cross an open Arctic Ocean

Mia Bennett
Posted: Friday, September 11, 2020 at 14:49 — Last Updated: Friday, September 11, 2020 at 15:06
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Sailing via the North Pole was impossible until the 1950s. Now, it is all but inevitable. Even if all greenhouse

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Environment Environment (Norway) Norway 

Norway’s Svalbard experienced hottest summer on record

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, September 10, 2020 at 16:04
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Glaciers are melting, permafrost thaws and buildings are sagging. What scares the scientists most is studies of decomposing carbon from

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Environment Environment (USA) USA 

Bering Sea ice at lowest extent in at least 5,500 years, study says

Alaska Public Media
Posted: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 at 14:09
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There is less sea ice in the Bering Sea now than at any time in at least 5,500 years. That’s

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) 

Climate change creating vast new glacial lakes, with risk of ‘gargantuan’ floods, researcher says

The Canadian Press
Posted: Monday, August 31, 2020 at 16:32 — Last Updated: Monday, August 31, 2020 at 16:40
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Meltwater from shrinking glaciers is creating vast lakes that could eventually pose an enormous flooding threat, says newly published research.

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Environment Environment (Russia) Russia 

Record-warm Arctic summer fatal to wild reindeer in Russia, say environmentalists

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, August 24, 2020 at 17:55 — Last Updated: Monday, August 24, 2020 at 18:01
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Temperature records are coming one after another across the Arctic. On the 15th August, Russian meteorologists measured 18,1° Celsius at Cape Sterligov

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Environment Environment (USA) USA 

ICE BLOG – Not “if” but “when”: Polar bears at risk of disappearing in 80 years

Irene Quaile
Posted: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 12:39 — Last Updated: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 12:42
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Rapid emissions cuts could still ensure their long-term survival. Otherwise, some Arctic regions seem set to lose polar bears by

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Environment Environment (USA) USA 

South Pole warmed 3 times the global rate over the past 30 years, new study suggests

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 at 13:40
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At the South Pole, considered the coldest point on Earth, temperatures are rising fast. So fast, in fact, that Kyle

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Blog Environment 

Blog – Summer 2020: When the unprecedented becomes the precedent

Irene Quaile
Posted: Friday, June 12, 2020 at 14:52 — Last Updated: Monday, June 15, 2020 at 09:26
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It’s raining. I’m delighted. A strange response from a Scot who has fled the damp British climate. I write this

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Environment Environment (Sweden) Sweden 

January temperatures about 10°C above normal in parts of northern Sweden, says weather service

Frank Radosevich, Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, February 3, 2020 at 17:55
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January was warm one for Sweden, which saw average temperatures for the winter month several degrees above normal. Measurements from

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) 

New “Frankenstein” shipping fuel could further pollute the Arctic, environmental groups say

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at 12:33 — Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 09:33
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A coalition of environmental groups is demanding answers from the oil refining and shipping industries after it emerged that new

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland 

Davos: Finnish PM stresses importance of Arctic Council for region’s stability amidst climate change

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 11:01 — Last Updated: Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 11:07
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In her international debut at the 51st World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said the world needs

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland 

Finland far behind climate goals, think tank says

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 12:25
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Finland’s carbon emissions are dropping far too slowly to reach the country’s climate goals, according to a fresh report from the Research

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Finland Society Society (Finland) 

Lack of snow due to warmer temperatures puts a damper on Finnish winter hobbies

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 at 16:43
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This winter in southern and western parts of Finland has been dark, wet and unusually warm — what many Finns

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Environment (Sweden) Sweden 

New report criticises Sweden’s climate policies

David Russell, Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, January 15, 2020 at 10:26 — Last Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 12:21
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Sweden’s climate policy must focus more on really reducing greenhouse gas emissions worldwide than on ‘cleaning its own backyard’. The

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Environment Environment (Norway) Norway RCI 

Methane emissions in Arctic Ocean have long been overestimated, study claims

Mathiew Leiser, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 at 18:30
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A new study from UiT The Arctic University of Norway revealed that estimates of methane emissions released from the Arctic

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