Ice-Blog: Santa in distress in a melting Arctic
As I was floating around our local swimming pool to the sound of “Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer” last night, the
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oceans
Moose-eating Greenland shark rescued in Atlantic Canada
Two quick-thinking men on Newfoundland’s northeast coast managed to save a Greenland shark from choking to death on a large
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Flame retardants found in Arctic gulls
A recent study has discovered a range of contaminants in the glaucous gull population in Canada’s eastern Arctic. The
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Arctic ice level rebounds from record 2012 low
The amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank this summer to the sixth lowest level, but that is much
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Sweden’s most common jellyfish disappearing
Swedish Radio News reports that the Moon Jellyfish, once common in the North Sea, has largely vanished from off Sweden’s
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Sharp-edged mussel invades southern Sweden
The zebra mussel, which is considered invasive in many countries, is spreading rapidly in the province of Östergotland, in southeastern
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Microplastics – the latest threat to the Baltic
Microplastics are small particles of plastic in the environment, so tiny as to often be invisible to the naked eye.
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Thousands of nuclear waste containers must be re-opened in Sweden
Over 7,000 containers of radioactive waste have to be taken out of storage since they contain too much mercury and
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Finland creates sanctuaries for endangered seals
With just over 300 left, the Saimaa seal population is teetering on the brink of extinction. Six new protection areas
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