New space incubators opened in Sweden
The first Scandanavian space incubator has just been launched, aiming to help new companies utilize space technology, patents, inventions and
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Canada & Sweden cooperate on Arctic science
Canada announced an Arctic science cooperation agreement with Sweden on Friday with a focus on marine surveying and oceans. The
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Small grizzlies dominate bigger polar bears: study
North Slope grizzly bears may be little, but when it comes to grabbing morsels of bowhead whale scraps, they are mighty
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Ice-Blog:: Arctic residents in hot water
At the swimming club last weekend, one of my fellow swimmers complained the water was too warm. She said she
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Cleaner atmosphere means more Arctic ice melt: study
To protect human health and safeguard the environment, governments and utility companies around the world have worked — successfully —
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Ice-Blog:: Melting glacier risk to seabed ecosystem
On my first visit to the Arctic in 2007, I went out into the Kongsfjord at Ny Alesund, Spitsbergen, with
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Ice-Blog: Farewell to ‘Last Ice’ victims
Ice Blog readers may remember the story of the two ice researchers and polar explorers who died when they broke
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New Arctic R&D center in Alaska
The Department of Homeland Security has launched a new research and development center in Alaska, looking to a future in which sophisticated algorithms
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Ice-blog: Arctic plastic “garbage patches”
There are a lot of things you might want to discover on a research cruise in the Arctic. Chunks of
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Fast test for toxic fungi in Sweden
It’s the mushroom season here in Sweden, with lots of people searching the forests for edible delights. But not every
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Scientists race to understand thawing permafrost
FAIRBANKS — Until recently, climate models, which predict everything from sea level rise to temperature increase, have largely ignored or glossed over permafrost,
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Russia to open research center on Svalbard
The center will be conducting meteorological research, Minister of Natural Resources Sergey Donskoy says. “The finances for a scientific center
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New app for reporting invasive marine species in Sweden
Marine biologists from the University of Gothenburg have created an app which lets anyone with a smartphone send in pictures if they
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Russians wrap up Arctic ice floe research
An icebreaker sailed from Murmansk yesterday to pick up 17 scientists who have spent four months on an ice floe
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Norwegian outcry over sunken Russian sub tests
Researchers fear they might never see their samples taken near the sunken nuclear submarine “K-159”. A joint team of Norwegian and
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