Arctic Council creates new expert group on nuclear emergencies
Two fatal accidents during the summer of 2019 was a wake-up call for radiation emergency authorities monitoring northern waters. On
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Norway greenlights copper mine with tailings to be dumped in Arctic fjord
Protests from the indigenous Sami people, local fishermen and environmental groups were turned down by the government. “Allowing this to happen
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Northern Canada store’s “greener” poppy option limited by legion trademark rules
The Royal Canadian Legion distributes more than 19 million poppies a year, which in turn raises millions of dollars in
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Compost facility upgrades in Whitehorse, northwestern Canada to help keep up with demand
The Whitehorse compost facility is getting an upgrade as the amount of waste diverted from the landfill grows. In 2018,
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Abandoned research station in Canada’s High Arctic to be cleaned up
A tiny remote island in Canada’s high Arctic is going to be cleaned of abandoned shacks, fuel drums and debris
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Citizens’ initiative prompts Finnish lawmakers to consider microplastics ban
A citizens’ initiative proposing that Finland ban the importation, production and sale of cosmetics containing microplastics has received the 50,000
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Plastic on Svalbard: “I could never believe it was this bad”
Norwegian Coast Guard crew shocked by the amount of plastic waste along the shore at a remote Svalbard island. The
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Russian Navy sends clean-up team to Arctic trash dump
Russia’s Northern Fleet sends an ecological clean-up team to Kotelny island to collect and crush oil drums dumped during the
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Norway is polluting Murmansk says Russian official
More than half of the pollution in Murmansk Oblast comes from Europe, and especially Norway, a representative from the regional
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Veggies often rejected because they’re ugly
It seems that grocery stores – and people – are discriminating against ugly vegetables, the newspaper Dagens Nyheter reports. The
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Finland: ministers call for more action on environmental crimes
A proposal to lower the threshold for bringing criminal charges in cases of environmental damage has gained the support of
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Plastic waste threatens oceans say Swedish researchers
Researchers in Sweden are calling on people to use less plastic in an effort to help protect the oceans as
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