Climate Crisis

A peninsula on an island Nansen named for his wife and daughter has melted away

Temperatures

An extreme cold is raging through the world's quickest warming region

Emissions

Climate negotiators point at Russia's great forests. Many of them are ablaze

As Moscow turns down coal deal at COP26, Russian miners get ready for a big Arctic dig

“selective engagement”

With cooperative spirit, Finland targets Arctic Russia

climate crisis

Arctic could see more rain than snow in 30 years, study suggests

COP26

As Jonas Gahr Støre goes to Glasgow, new poll shows most Norwegians support his bid for continued drilling

Climate change worries Finland’s young reindeer herders

Climate Summit

Norway gets 'Fossil of the Day' award for promoting own gas at COP26

Russia-EU

Putin loads his energy weapon with alternative power

Climate crisis

Report by the Climate Change Panel warns of multifaceted negative effects in Finnish Lapland

Climate crisis

Two days after the election: Oslo welcomes new round of shelf drilling

No more white christmas

Climate change will hit Finland’s winters hard, researchers warn

Second year in row, big numbers of wild reindeer calves are found dead along banks of great river Khatanga

Oil on tundra

Novatek's new Arctic license areas are located in a protected nature reserve

Alarm bells ringing for Atlantic salmon. An invasive species from the Pacific appears to take its place

Climate crisis

Polar bears face extinction in Svalbard and Arctic Russia

Climate crisis

Russia says its forests neutralize billions of tons of greenhouse gases. Scientists have their doubts

New Arctic

The Arctic research base that launched 1,500 rockets faces revival

Climate crisis

Putin fears melting permafrost, but expresses doubt it is caused by humans

Melting permafrost

The looming Arctic collapse: more than 40% of north Russian buildings are starting to crumble

Climate crisis

"Arctic drilling is a violation of human rights"

Climate crisis

Northernmost Siberian wildfire discovered from space

Heatwave

Record breaking temperatures recorded in Arctic Russia

Komi spills

Between life and oil

Arctic oil spill

Bewilderment on the shores of great Pechora

27 °C in Naryan-Mar

Massive heatwave across northern Russia as Moscow takes chair of Arctic Council

Climate crisis

The Arctic leaders that sit down to discuss climate must abandon plans for oil drilling

Climate crisis

More than 60% of Russian territory is permafrost. Now it is melting

Russia’s Far North could be arable in 20-30 years as permafrost melts, minister states

Climate crisis tops agenda as parliamentarians meet ahead of Arctic Council ministerial

climate crisis

Scientists fear more lung cancer as radon is released from thawing permafrost

1.9% increase per year

Study finds increasing mercury levels in Narwhals

Ten months after giant Arctic spill, inspectors fear more accidents at Nornickel's oil tank farms

Glacier mass decreasing across Arctic but at different rates, says study

Climate crisis

This Russian Arctic coast has planet's quickest warming

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