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A farm on the edge of Vättern Lake in Sweden. (iStock)
Environment Environment (Sweden) Sweden 

Farming, forestry and climate change in Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 at 10:15
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Climate change is happening, but how will it affect Sweden? It turns out farming and forestry may not do so

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Stefan Mikaelsson, head of the assembly for indigenous Sami, Sametinget. (Radio Sweden)
Business Special Features Sweden 

Hundreds demonstrate against mining in Arctic Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 at 10:34
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Hundreds of people travelled from Sweden’s Arctic this weekend to demonstrate against what they call the unsustainable “mining boom” in

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Society Society (Sweden) Special Features Sweden 

Artists boycott market in Arctic Sweden over mining conflict

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, February 6, 2014 at 12:16
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Thursday is Sami National Day, celebrated internationally by indigenous people of the European Arctic, including in Sweden. This is also

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Picture evidence from an infrared camera on why Rudolf's nose is red. (University of Lund / Radio Sweden)
Environment Environment (Sweden) Sweden 

Swedish researchers prove rudolph’s nose really IS red

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, December 16, 2013 at 12:26
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Researchers at Lund University in southern Sweden have proved that Rudolf’s nose actually IS red. They have filmed the nose

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A rare glimpse of a Finnish forest reindeer doe with a nursing fawn last summer in Lieksa. (Asko Kettunen / Yle)
Environment Environment (Finland) Finland 

Counting elusive Finnish forest reindeer in Russian Karelia

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, October 10, 2013 at 12:31
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  Finnish and Russian researchers are teaming up for the first comprehensive population study of the rare Finnish forest reindeer.

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Photo: Sveriges Radio
Environment Environment (Sweden) Sweden 

The EU Commission and Sweden’s wolves

Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, August 2, 2013 at 10:16
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The European Commission remains skeptical of Swedish arguments that a wolf hunt would be the best way to protect the

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Sami Parliament elections take place this Sunday. (Radio Sweden)
Politics Politics (Sweden) Sweden 

Land, water rights big issues in Sweden’s Sami elections

Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 at 14:05
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Sweden’s indigenous Sami group goes to the polls for the Sami Parliament elections this Sunday. The body, which represents all

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The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

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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