Environmentalists in the SPOK group has since 1996 worked to protect vulnerable forest land in Karelia. This week, their offices were searched by security agents.
Norway’s Minister of Fisheries Per Sandberg calls on more cooperation in border areas after a scandalous video shows how tons of dead and half-dead salmon were dumped on the coast of the Barents Sea.
A new book tells the story about how a popular movement gathered the whole community of Kirkenes in a joint protest against heavy pollution from neighboring Nikel. More than two decades later, the winds still bring poisonous sulphur across the border.
Video footage from last year’s aquaculture scandal in Murmansk shows fish farmers cutting loose the bottom of a cage net littering the Arctic sea bottom with dead and half-dead fish.
“Pollution from Nikel must stop,” says Kirkenes-Mayor Rune Rafaelsen and suggests traveling together with Norway’s Minister of Environment to Moscow to solve the problem.
Unhealthy air-quality from a factory wrapped in pollution continues in Nikel despite closure of similar melting technology in Norilsk for environmental reasons.
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has advised Norway and Russia to cut the Barents Sea cod quota to 805,000 tons for 2017.
A cross-party energy deal has been reached between Sweden’s government and three opposition parties. Sweden will have 100 percent renewable energy by 2040, but there is not yet a deadline for the phase out of nuclear power.
New data shows that May saw its lowest-ever sea ice extent, by a significant margin. By the height of summer, Arctic sea ice will be probably be at its lowest levels ever recorded.