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Traffic outside of Stockholm, Sweden. Electric car sales are weak in the country, especially compared to places like neighbouring Norway. (Sven Nackstand / AFP)

Will Sweden be 1st fossil-free welfare state?

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, September 28, 2015 at 13:56 — Last Updated: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 19:24
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Addressing the United Nation’s General Assembly on Saturday, Swedish Prime Minster Stefan Löfven said his nation would work toward becoming one

Radar stations are under construction in the Russian district of Vorkuta and in the Arctic Murmansk region. (iStock)

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Russian republics unite against oil spills

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 13:23 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 18:53
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Following a number of accidents, Russia’s Nenets and Komi regional authorities are taking joint action to preventing harm to vulnerable

A blue rectangular piece of microplastic is visible on a researcher's finger in Washington State in 2010. (Ted S. Warren / AP)

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Sweden tackles microplastics problem

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 15:16
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Sweden wants to reduce the environmental spreading of microplastics, the small particles of plastic that can be found in skin

Rusty fuel and chemical drums on the Arctic coast. (iStock)

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Russia cleaning up scrap metal on Arctic coast

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 at 15:08
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Russia’s Northern Fleet has established a special unit which is cleaning up the huge amounts of scrap metal left rusting

Fur seals on an island in Glacier Bay, Alaska. (iStock)

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Banned pollutants turn up in Alaska fur seals

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, July 13, 2015 at 13:14 — Last Updated: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 20:02
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A new study of contaminants known as persistent organic pollutants — various pesticides, preservatives and industrial chemicals — in the bodies of Alaska fur

A firefighter in training with fire retardant foam. What effect does foam have on the environment? (iStock)

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Sweden : Use of fire-fighting foam grows despite environmental risks

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 14:18 — Last Updated: Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 18:39
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Swedish fire departments are increasingly use foam to extinguish blazes even though the chemical can be an environmental hazard. Swedish Television

The Bering Sea (pictured above) has the benefit of phytoplankton blooms, something that helps buffer it against acidification. (iStock)

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Acidification takes toll on Beaufort Sea

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 13:21
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With their low temperatures that hold onto the carbon dioxide absorbed from the atmosphere, their shallow depths, their rich supply

The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent in the Arctic in 2008. (Jonathan Hayward / The Canadian Press)

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IMO completes Polar Code, regulating Arctic and Antarctic shipping

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 13:41 — Last Updated: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 17:45
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Starting in 2017, it will be illegal for shippers to dump oil, oily waste or noxious materials into Arctic or

Tesla Model S outside Nikel on Russia's Kola Peninsula. (Thomas Nilsen/Barents Observer)

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Norway reaches 50,000 electric cars sales

Trude Pettersen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 14:17 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 18:47
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Electric car number 50,000 was recently registered in Norway, two years ahead of planned schedule. With generous incentives that include zero

The pipes of Kola Mining Company's nickel melter in Nikel on the Kola Peninsula. (Atle Staalesen/Barents Observer)

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Norway is polluting Murmansk says Russian official

Trude Pettersen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, April 24, 2015 at 14:36 — Last Updated: Friday, April 24, 2015 at 14:38
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More than half of the pollution in Murmansk Oblast comes from Europe, and especially Norway, a representative from the regional

A café in Stockholm, Sweden. How do lifestyle choices like eating out affect the environment? (Olivier Morin/AFP)

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Sweden: Flights and food cause major emissions

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 15:39 — Last Updated: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 20:08
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Swedish toxic emissions decreased in 2011 and 2012, but private consumption affecting emissions has increased over the last 20 years.

Ecotoxikologist Katja Broeg. (Agnes Faxén/SR)

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Microplastics new threat to Baltic

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, April 20, 2015 at 21:14 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at 20:00
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There’s a new ecological concern about the troubled Baltic Sea. A report says there’s a threat now from substances found

A sure sign of spring. (Elina Niemistö / Yle)

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Cleaning up litter has expensive price tag in Finland

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 14:14
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Spring has finally arrived in Finland, revealing massive amounts of waste that has accumulated along the motorways and in the

Pollution from the chimneys in Nikel moves towards the Norwegian border, while the snow around the plant is black of fallout of heavy metals, sulphur dioxide and other pollutions from the plant. (Thomas Nilsen/Barents Observer)

Business Business (Russia) General Russia

Russia: Arctic mega-polluter pays record high dividends

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 13:11
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Nickel industry in Siberia and on the Kola Peninsula is very good business for investors. Norilsk Nickel set to pay

As technology has improved to detect them, there is a realization that plastic microbeads are a growing problem worldwide and can be found in concentrations as high as the plastic bits in the ocean gyres. (CBC)

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Plastic microbeads- a toxic substance in waterways-from the Great Lakes to the Arctic

Marc Montgomery, Radio Canada International
Posted: Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 20:38
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They are very tiny beads usually made of polyethylene, which is a very common plastic used for example, to make