Environmental groups call on Arctic cruise industry to reduce pollution in Iceland
Recent air samples taken in Iceland suggest cruise ships arriving and departing from Reykjavik are negatively affecting air quality, according
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Global cooperation stressed as international climate experts gather in Montreal, Canada
MONTREAL – International collaboration is key to tackling global temperature change and crafting successful adaptation strategies, Canada’s Minister of Environment
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Sweden moves Polar Research Secretariat to Arctic town
In a move to decentralise state agencies out of Stockholm, Arctic coordination goes north to the town where the country’s
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American science foundation awards $500,000 to food security research in Indigenous communities
The National Science Foundation, an independent American federal agency, has awarded approximately $500,000 to research food security in Indigenous communities in
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Researchers ask citizens to monitor Alaska berries
A group of scientists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks are hoping to give pickers better data on when berries
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Norway and Russia join efforts in mapping ecosystem of Arctic waters
Norwegian and Russian researchers launch the most comprehensive ecosystem mapping of the two countries’ joint Arctic waters. It started up
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Chinese icebreaker navigates across central Arctic
On Monday, «Xue Long» is doing research in the Norwegian Sea, sailing a back-and-forth pat half-way between Bjørnøya and Jan
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NASA and Norway to develop observation station in Arctic
The American space research agency joins efforts with the Norwegian Mapping Authority in developing a new earth observation station in
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New marine atlas details ecosystem of changing Arctic Alaska
Birds, fish, marine mammals, oil rigs, ships of various sizes and people cross paths in the Arctic waters off Alaska.
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July registers fifth lowest Arctic sea ice extent in satellite record
Average sea ice extent for the month of July ended up the fifth lowest since satellite records began in 1979, according to
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Ice-Blog: Greenland on the horizon
When I first visited Greenland back in 2009, it was not a place that made the news very often. This
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A century in 35 seconds: Finnish hit video illustrates global warming
Meteorological researcher Antti Lipponen from Kuopio says his phone has been ringing off the hook after he shared a 35
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Goose population shrinks in southern Alaska, but grows in Arctic
For decades, the crowds of small, dark sea geese on the tundra of southwestern Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta have been thinning,
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Gas pipelines threatened by methane explosions on Russian tundra
Gas pipes supplying Europe run right over swelling Yamal tundra which is deeply unstable to the release of underground methane.
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Wind power poses no health risk, yet symptoms persist in Finland : researchers
No concrete evidence has been found connecting wind turbines with illnesses or health problems, but complaints about symptoms crop up
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