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Environment Environment (Sweden) General News Sweden 

Many towns in Sweden seek funds to clean up polluted sites

Brett Ascarelli and Joel Wendle, Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at 14:54
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The western city of Borås is hoping to get state money to clean up old textile industry residues that wound

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Gas flares, a producer of black carbon, go off at a an unnamed liquefied natural gas plant on Sakhalin island in Russia's Far East.
Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General News 

Arctic Council experts gather in Helsinki for black carbon meeting

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at 08:52
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The Arctic Council’s expert group on black carbon and methane will gather in Helsinki on Wednesday for a two-day meeting

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Finland General News Society Society (Finland) 

Only 1 % of Finnish waste sent to landfill

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 10:47
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Some 60 percent of Finnish refuse is burnt at incinerators. New figures from Statistics Finland show that just one percent

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Finland General News Society Society (Finland) 

Mounting garbage a problem in northern Finland

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 16:04 — Last Updated: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 at 09:25
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During the busy winter season the seasonal population in Kittilä, Lapland quintuples and so does the trash left behind. Christmas

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Blog Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Blog – 2018: Recapping the year in the Arctic

Mia Bennett
Posted: Monday, January 7, 2019 at 11:17
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Planet Earth has completed another rotation around the sun, which has now set on the Arctic for the next three

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Environment Environment (Sweden) General News Sweden 

Growing climate protest movement is “saying no to human extinction”

David Russell, Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, January 4, 2019 at 11:53 — Last Updated: Friday, January 4, 2019 at 13:23
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Extinction Rebellion, a fast growing environmental protest group from the UK, which advocates non-violent, disruptive direct action to force governments

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Environment Environment (Sweden) General News Sweden 

Seasonal foods threatened by pollution problems, Swedish study says

Simon Linter, Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, December 24, 2018 at 14:54 — Last Updated: Monday, December 24, 2018 at 15:29
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Christmas dinner could be set to change, according to BalticEye, a research organisation based at Stockholm University.  The amount

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News 

CO2 may rob Arctic salmon of their sense of smell, new study says

Jackie McKay, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, December 19, 2018 at 16:19
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A new study out of the University of Washington and NOAA Fisheries’ Northwest Fisheries Science Centre shows rising carbon dioxide

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General News 

Canadian Chamber of Commerce backs carbon pricing, but not for the North

Sidney Cohen, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, December 19, 2018 at 11:32
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The Canadian Chamber of Commerce endorses carbon pricing in Canada, but says the tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions won’t

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General News 

Scientists find hundreds of new toxins in blood of Canadian polar bears

Sara Frizzell, CBC News
Posted: Friday, December 7, 2018 at 11:06
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Hundreds of previously unknown contaminants were found in a new study of polar bear blood, published in a German chemical

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General News 

Northern Canada: Giant Mine cleanup project could be complete by 2030

Michael Hugall, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at 09:55
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The Giant Mine cleanup team says the project may be complete by 2030. The group released a timeline for the

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General News 

In Northern Canada, researchers pull big fish from lakes in hopes of reducing toxic mercury risk

Michael Hugall, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, November 6, 2018 at 14:02
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Researchers aim to limit the amount of mercury in the ecosystem in the Northwest Territories (Northern Canada) by removing contaminated

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Environment Environment (Sweden) General News Sweden 

Researchers track pollution generated abroad for Swedish goods

Loukas Christodoulou and Jonas Löfvenberg, Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, November 2, 2018 at 08:39
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For the first time scientists have delivered a way to make sure that Sweden doesn’t simply export its pollution to

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Denmark/Greenland Environment Environment (Denmark/Greenland) General News 

Increasing ocean acidification ushering era of uncertainty for Arctic, says report

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, October 11, 2018 at 12:50 — Last Updated: Friday, October 12, 2018 at 16:30
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If left unchecked, acidification levels in the Arctic Ocean will have significant consequences for northern communities as well as the

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Finland General News Politics Politics (Finland) 

Arctic environment ministers gather in Finland to tackle climate change, biodiversity & pollution

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 at 16:29 — Last Updated: Friday, October 12, 2018 at 16:24
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For the first time in five years, environment ministers from the world’s eight circumpolar nations are gathering as a group

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In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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