Many towns in Sweden seek funds to clean up polluted sites
The western city of Borås is hoping to get state money to clean up old textile industry residues that wound
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Arctic Council experts gather in Helsinki for black carbon meeting
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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Only 1 % of Finnish waste sent to landfill
Some 60 percent of Finnish refuse is burnt at incinerators. New figures from Statistics Finland show that just one percent
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Mounting garbage a problem in northern Finland
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 – 2018: Recapping the year in the Arctic
Planet Earth has completed another rotation around the sun, which has now set on the Arctic for the next three
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Growing climate protest movement is “saying no to human extinction”
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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Seasonal foods threatened by pollution problems, Swedish study says
Christmas dinner could be set to change, according to BalticEye, a research organisation based at Stockholm University. The amount
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CO2 may rob Arctic salmon of their sense of smell, new study says
A new study out of the University of Washington and NOAA Fisheries’ Northwest Fisheries Science Centre shows rising carbon dioxide
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Canadian Chamber of Commerce backs carbon pricing, but not for the North
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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Scientists find hundreds of new toxins in blood of Canadian polar bears
Hundreds of previously unknown contaminants were found in a new study of polar bear blood, published in a German chemical
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Northern Canada: Giant Mine cleanup project could be complete by 2030
The Giant Mine cleanup team says the project may be complete by 2030. The group released a timeline for the
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In Northern Canada, researchers pull big fish from lakes in hopes of reducing toxic mercury risk
Researchers aim to limit the amount of mercury in the ecosystem in the Northwest Territories (Northern Canada) by removing contaminated
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Researchers track pollution generated abroad for Swedish goods
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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Increasing ocean acidification ushering era of uncertainty for Arctic, says report
If left unchecked, acidification levels in the Arctic Ocean will have significant consequences for northern communities as well as the
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Arctic environment ministers gather in Finland to tackle climate change, biodiversity & pollution
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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