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

Melting permafrost may release industrial pollutants at Arctic sites: study

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 15:31
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There are thousands of contaminated sites in the Arctic, and as permafrost thaws, increased pollutants from these areas could be

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 Science (Canada) 

This stubborn shrub is helping to keep Arctic river banks intact as permafrost thaws

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Friday, March 17, 2023 at 11:27
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Plants getting credit for stabilizing banks of big rivers that were expected to erode. Leon Andrew describes Arctic willow as

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* Featured * Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 General 

The world’s permafrost is rapidly thawing and that’s a big climate change problem

CBC News
Posted: Monday, December 12, 2022 at 10:28
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By Christy Climenhaga · CBC News ‘They are quite likely to be larger than the fossil fuel emissions from Canada’: U of

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 General News Newsroom Picks • zone 1 

Thawing Arctic will reveal more mummified creatures, brings new risks

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 at 09:31
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By Laura McQuillan · CBC News  Millions of tonnes of carbon and methane, trapped in permafrost for thousands of years, could be

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

Russia’s Arctic coastline is losing 7,000 hectares per year to climate change

Polina Leganger Bronder, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, December 28, 2021 at 12:46
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A new study conducted at the Moscow State University confirms that the Arctic permafrost along the country’s northern coastline is

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* Featured * Countries Environment (USA) Featured • Zone 3 General News Society USA 

Blog – Can we make peace with nature in a rapidly changing Arctic?

Irene Quaile
Posted: Thursday, April 15, 2021 at 16:57
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The United Nations Environment Programme is calling for bold action to “make peace with nature” by cutting greenhouse gases and

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Canada Featured • Zone 2 General Newsroom Picks • zone 1 RCI Science Science (Canada) 

Increased summer rainfall alters High Arctic rivers and landscapes: study

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Monday, March 8, 2021 at 17:58
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Increased summer rainfall in the High Canadian Arctic is altering river hydrology and water quality, transforming northern landscapes in a

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Environment Environment (Norway) Norway RCI 

Record November warmth in Svalbard, Norway

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 10:44
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The Arctic fox is waiting for a delayed winter. 9.4 °C measured at the weather station in Reindalspasset just after

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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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Business Business (Canada) Canada RCI 

Canadian First Nation waiting to flip the switch on new solar array in Yukon

Mike Rudyk, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 at 15:50
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Building a solar farm 127 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle is a challenge; building an array of solar panels

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Denmark/Greenland Environment Environment (Denmark/Greenland) 

BLOG – Zackenberg revisited – Greenland climate research station under threat from permafrost thaw

Irene Quaile
Posted: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 at 12:36 — Last Updated: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 at 12:52
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In the remote, high Arctic region of north-eastern Greenland, at 74° North, a scattered group of blue and white buildings

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Canada RCI Science Science (Canada) 

What ancient earthquakes along the Denali fault in Yukon can tell us about what could come in Canada

CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 29, 2020 at 12:10 — Last Updated: Monday, June 29, 2020 at 12:11
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New findings of earthquake recurrence on the Denali Fault line in southwest Yukon are helping researchers get closer to pinpointing when

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Canada Politics Politics (Canada) RCI 

Alaska Highway travellers might be in for rough ride this summer

CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 22, 2020 at 12:56 — Last Updated: Monday, June 22, 2020 at 16:09
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Travellers on the Alaska Highway between Haines Junction and the United States border may be in for a rough ride

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) RCI 

Global ocean temperatures hit new record highs in 2019 causing devastating effects in the Arctic

Mathiew Leiser, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Thursday, January 16, 2020 at 18:58
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World ocean temperatures in 2019 were the highest ever recorded in human history, reflecting the speed at which our planet

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Environment Environment (Russia) Russia 

Russian climate report stresses adaptation but no reduction in fossil fuel extraction

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 at 09:12 — Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2020 at 17:18
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The country’s new climate adaption plan includes no intent to stagger the major production growth of coal, oil and natural

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