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Warming climate poses challenge to Arctic animals — and those who hunt them

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 11:10
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When David Kuptana looked out the window of his home in Ulukhaktok, N.W.T., and across the Beaufort Sea last Friday,

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July cooler than average for Finland, except in eastern Lapland

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, August 14, 2020 at 09:13
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Finland experienced slightly cooler and more rain than usual in the month of July, except for the eastern part of

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Environment Environment (USA) USA 

Arctic summer sea ice could be gone by 2035, new study forecasts

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at 15:08 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at 15:17
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The Arctic could be completely ice-free in summers by 2035, according to a new study that compared present-day conditions with

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland 

Jump in, the water’s (mostly) fine in Finland, study finds

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at 15:19 — Last Updated: Friday, June 12, 2020 at 09:40
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It’s safe to swim at the vast majority of Finland’s public beaches, according to a new report from the European

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) 

Ice-free Arctic summers likely by 2050, even with climate action: study

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 11:27
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Much of the Arctic Ocean will become ice-free during summers by 2050 even if greenhouse gas emissions are reduced sharply,

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Environment Environment (Sweden) Sweden 

2018 drought took toll on Swedish farmers’ mental and fiscal health, research says

Petra Haupt, Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, December 20, 2019 at 15:39
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A new study by Lund University shows farmers’s health and financial situation suffered from the hot, dry summer of 2018.

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General News 

After two dry summers, lakes and wells running low in Finland

Yle News
Posted: Monday, September 16, 2019 at 12:12
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After two summers with below-average rainfall, lake water levels are exceptionally low in many parts of Finland, and private wells

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Drought causing water shortages in Southcentral Alaska communities

Kirsten Swann, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 12:11
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After an unprecedented summer drought drained reservoirs and wells across Alaska, hundreds of people face immediate water shortages — and

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A hot summer across the Arctic, Russian meteorological institute says

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 10:22
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June, July and August have never been this warm in the Arctic. Data from Russian and U.S weather institutes show

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General 

Warmer, drier summer than usual in most of Finland

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at 10:42 — Last Updated: Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at 11:53
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With warm weather continuing in early September, this summer has brought more hot days than usual to most of the

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Record late-August heat in Northern Finland

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, August 29, 2019 at 10:13
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The Finnish Meteorological Institute FMI said that temperatures in Lapland (north) have never before exceeded 25 degrees Celsius after 27

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Blue-green algae: Finland’s best August levels in 20 years

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, August 22, 2019 at 14:38
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Toxic blue-green algae, technically known as cyanobacteria, has been unusually rare on Finnish inland waters this summer despite spells of

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Extreme weather fuelling wildfires in southcentral Alaska

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Tuesday, August 20, 2019 at 13:35
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Usually by August, peak fire season has passed. But fire and climate experts say conditions in Southcentral Alaska were nearly

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Communities in Nunavut, Arctic Canada on track for warmer than normal summer

Angela Hill, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at 13:53
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The summer isn’t over and so far people in many Nunavut communities have been feeling the heat. “June, July and

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General News 

Historic temperature peaks in dry, cool July for Finland

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, August 1, 2019 at 14:26 — Last Updated: Friday, August 2, 2019 at 10:05
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July 2019 will be remembered for breaking records for both freezing nights and blistering days at Finland’s meteorological measuring stations.

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