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Lapland may be seeing sub-zero temperatures this weekend

Yle News
Posted: Friday, November 4, 2022 at 11:38
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Winter is showing its face in Finland, but only briefly. Central and northern regions of Finland face a wintry weekend

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Especially warm and rainy July for Arctic Finland

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Monday, August 8, 2022 at 15:16
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Lapland, the northernmost region of Finland, experienced an especially warm and rainy July this year, says the Finnish Meteorological Institute

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Arctic Cold Case: Thousands of mysterious animal deaths finally solved

Mathiew Leiser, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Tuesday, December 28, 2021 at 15:18 — Last Updated: Tuesday, December 28, 2021 at 16:02
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NASA scientists have finally solved a half-century-old case in the Arctic: the puzzling death of thousands of caribou and reindeer.

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Finland expects a white Christmas nationwide

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, December 23, 2021 at 09:11
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Finland will wake up the morning of Christmas Eve to a winter wonderland, according to a forecast from the Finnish

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Russia’s Arctic coast warmest since records started says weather service

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 09:28
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Parts of Northern Siberia were up to 7℃ warmer than normal in 2020. Massive melting of sea-ice on the Northern

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General News RCI 

Arctic Canadian city of Iqaluit sets record high temperature for Jan. 19, reaching 0.5 C

CBC News
Posted: Friday, January 22, 2021 at 15:47
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If Iqalummiut feel like winter has been especially mild this year, they’re not wrong. Temperatures have been unseasonably balmy by Iqaluit standards

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More snow set to blanket northern Sweden Thursday as storm sweeps through

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 15:29
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Northern Sweden, already saddled with snow, is in for more wintry weather on Thursday as a storm passes through. The

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Lapland temperature of -39 C marks year’s coldest day so far in Finland

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 10:17
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A warning of dangerously cold temperatures is in effect for nearly the whole of the country. The lowest temperature readings

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) News RCI 

Top 5 weather stories in the Canadian North for 2020

Bradlyn Oakes, CBC North
Posted: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 12:27
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What a year! For many, 2020 is one we’re happy to leave behind. So much happened over the last 12

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New NOAA report finds vast Siberian wildfires linked to Arctic warming

The Associated Press
Posted: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 09:58
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This year’s vast wildfires in far northeastern Russia were linked to broader changes in a warming Arctic, according to a report

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A eurasian elk in a forest in Sweden. (iStock)
Environment Environment (Sweden) Sweden 

European elk calves struggling in warmer spring months

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 at 13:56 — Last Updated: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 at 13:58
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Warmer and drier spring months in Sweden are making life a struggle for the country’s population of European elk calves,

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WMO verifies -69.6 C northern hemisphere cold record in Greenland

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 at 08:21
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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has recognized the coldest recorded temperature in the northern hemisphere as being -69.6 C that

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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 (Norway) Norway 

Svalbard: Colder than normal for the first time in 10 years

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 13:08
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Not since November 2011 has Svalbard had a monthly average temperature colder than normal. “Average temperature for March was -16,2

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General Science 

Finland needs its own space research centre, gov’t report says

Yle News
Posted: Monday, February 17, 2020 at 09:04
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Finland must increase its investments in the business and technologies of space, according to a report commissioned by the Prime

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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

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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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