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Mining companies to pay higher deposits for environmental damage in Finland

16 October 2019 10 h 14 min Yle News 0 Comments legislation, mining, pollution

Finland’s government is committed to increasing the guarantee fees paid by mining companies to offset the environmental damages mine operations

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Arctic Council group lobs GPS-bugged capsules into Atlantic to track litter trajectories in the North

17 September 2019 8 h 29 min — 20 September 2019 13 h 59 min Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments Arctic Council, Gudmundur Ingi Gudbrandsson, Iceland, PAME, pollution, Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment

The Arctic council working group focused on the polar marine environment is taking a novel approach raising awareness around marine

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Greenpeace Russia calls for more resources to fight Siberian wildfires

8 August 2019 14 h 42 min — 19 August 2019 10 h 41 min Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments climate, firefighting, health, pollution, Siberia, temperature, weather

Greenpeace Russia is calling for more resources to fight Siberian wildfires, saying the smoke is having consequences everywhere from big

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Nearly 3,000 people, 50 aircraft mobilized to fight wildfires in Russia

1 August 2019 14 h 17 min — 2 August 2019 10 h 05 min Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments European Space Agency, health, pollution, Siberia, temperature, weather

Nearly 3,000 people and 50 aircraft are working to extinguish wildfires across Russia said the country’s aerial forest protection service

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What Arctic ice can tell us about plagues, climate and conflict in the Middle Ages

18 July 2019 10 h 41 min — 19 July 2019 15 h 47 min Emily Blake, CBC News 0 Comments climate, ice, Middle Ages, Plagues, pollution

New research is revealing how plagues, wars and the climate affected the economy of Medieval Europe. But researchers didn’t find

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Finnish team assists in cutting methane emissions from cow burps

17 July 2019 16 h 13 min — 19 July 2019 15 h 47 min Yle News 0 Comments climate change, Cows, environment, Finland, methane, pollution

Methane emissions could be reduced worldwide by altering the microbes living in the guts of cows and thereby reducing the

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Wildfire smoke brings more respiratory complaints in Anchorage, Alaska

3 July 2019 11 h 03 min Amy Mostafa, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, Anchorage, forest fires, health, pollution, wildfires

Anchorage, Alaska health care providers have seen more patients with respiratory problems in recent days because of poor air quality.

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Wildfires in Alaska and Yukon producing smoky conditions

3 July 2019 9 h 51 min — 3 July 2019 9 h 54 min CBC News 0 Comments Alaska, forest fires, health, pollution, wildfires, Yukon

Yukon’s chief medical officer of health issued an air quality advisory Monday as much of the territory was blanketed by

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Sweden: Comparing emissions taxes for planes and cars

7 June 2019 15 h 44 min Ulla Engberg, Radio Sweden 0 Comments aviation, flight, pollution, tourism, travel

If flights were to pay for their impact on the climate, just like lorries and cars do, a plane trip

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Emissions dropping in EU, but not in Norway

4 June 2019 13 h 24 min Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments climate change, emissions, European Union, global warming, pollution

Despite Arctic heat waves, Norway is not cooling down its emission of gasses causing climate crisis. Emission of climate gasses

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Better wildfire & agriculture management among recommendations from Arctic Council black carbon expert group

31 May 2019 8 h 35 min — 31 May 2019 16 h 38 min Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments climate change, politics, pollution, research global warming, Science, weather

Better wildfire management and improved agricultural practices have been added to a list of black carbon and methane mitigation recommendations

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Smoke from northern Alberta wildfire reaches northwestern Canada

23 May 2019 10 h 16 min — 23 May 2019 10 h 26 min CBC News 0 Comments Alberta, Dawson City, forest fires, High Level, pollution, Whitehorse, wildfires, Yukon

Smoke from a wildfire burning near High Level, Alta. (Canadian Prairies), has so far reached as far as Dawson City,

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Northern Canada: Mine contamination not a big health issue for Yellowknife residents

15 May 2019 15 h 24 min — 16 May 2019 11 h 30 min Richard Gleeson, CBC News 0 Comments First Nations, indigenous, mining, Northwest Territories, NWT, pollution, Yellowknife

The most comprehensive study undertaken on the concentration of mine contaminants in people living in the Yellowknife area, in Canada’s

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Environmental groups call for global moratorium on ‘emissions cheat’ systems on ships

14 May 2019 15 h 50 min — 15 May 2019 10 h 20 min Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments Carnival Corporation, cruise ships, heavy fuel oil, International Maritime Organization, pollution, scrubbers

A coalition of environmental NGOs is calling for an immediate moratorium on exhaust gas cleaning systems, also known as scrubbers,

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The garbage polar bears get into is getting into them

9 April 2019 10 h 10 min Katie Toth, CBC News 0 Comments Alaska, bears, garbage, hunting, Inuit, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, NWT, polar bears, pollution, wildlife

Aluminum foil. Car keys. Candy wrappers. Half a towel. If there was a Canada Food Guide for bears, none of

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