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Electric car enthusiasts from Bergen, Oslo, Hammerfest, Minsk and St. Petersburg drive towards Murmansk showing that even Europe's remotest corner is within range.
June 22, 2018
Norwegian and Russian marine researchers for the third year in a row recommend reducing the catch of Northeast Arctic cod.
June 15, 2018
A load of containers with spent nuclear fuel from Andreeva Bay on the Kola Peninsula will have to wait because of a general ban on transport of dangerous goods in Russia during the Football World Cup.
June 14, 2018
President Sauli Niinistö addressed the Finnish Climate Summit in Helsinki on Wednesday, calling on the Arctic Council member states to meet to tackle black carbon emissions in the far north.
June 13, 2018
On the Yamal peninsula, the reindeer are dying again and the mortality rate this time is greater than during the anthrax epidemic two years ago.
June 05, 2018
6,0°C above normal in Longyarbyen which concluded its 90th month in a row with above normal temperatures.
June 03, 2018
The Finnish regions of Lapland (north) is likely to see flooding in the coming weeks, as warm temperatures set spring thaws in motion. The Finnish Environment Institute’s leading hydrologist Bertel Vehviläinen says that current data point to the worst flooding in 20 years.
May 14, 2018
Now: Concentration of plastics are comparable or even higher in the Arctic than in more industrialized and urban areas, a new report concludes.
May 14, 2018
Such was the advice given by local officials to the residents of Monchegorsk who are being poisoned with sulfur dioxide emissions
April 30, 2018
Spilled oil from one of Lukoil’s local pipelines is polluting the river of Maly Voivozh.
April 19, 2018
Thousands of containers with radioactive waste were dumped in the Kara Sea during Soviet times. Now, Russia’s Federal Agency for Fishing believes it’s a good idea to start fishing.
March 15, 2018
If it is true that Russia have tested its new nuclear-powered missiles, some radioactive releases could occur, says Norwegian nuclear safety expert.
March 03, 2018
Skibotn, Svanhovd and Kajaani are three of the locations in northern Europe where the radioactive isotope of unknown origin are measured.
February 26, 2018
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday signed the decree protecting 840 square kilometers of the Khibiny mountains.
February 19, 2018
Head of the environmental organisation’s energy program Vladimir Chuprov on the results of the Year of Ecology in the Barents Region
February 15, 2018
Compiled more than 14 years ago, the list of environmental trouble spots in five north Russian regions amounted to 42 sites, of which eight were in the Komi Republic.
February 13, 2018
The new life of a forest protection organization recognized as a foreign agent in Karelia during Russia's Year of Ecology.
February 12, 2018
24 years after being shut down, the still highly radioactive reactors are now lifted out of the icebreaker.
February 07, 2018
While four million elderly Russians live below the poverty line, the country’s pension fund pays for Rosatom-backed nuclear plant in northern-Finland. «Deeply unfair,» says Oleg Bodrov from the closed town of Sosnovy Bor near St. Petersburg.
January 29, 2018
After more than 10 years on the seafloor of the Barents Sea, no detectable levels of radiation are measured from K-159.
January 25, 2018
Coalition government expands to include the Liberal Party. That gave a greener political platform.
January 14, 2018
Minister of the Environment, Energy and Housing Kimmo Tiilikainen has proposed that Finland should move up its ban on coal-burning for power to 2025. The government had previously agreed on a 2030 date for phasing out the fossil fuel in the country’s energy market.
January 10, 2018
The developers of the Yamal LNG seek to overcome damage caused by the removal of 70 million tons of seabed from the Gulf of Ob.
January 08, 2018
Oslo District Court on Thursday ruled that Norway’s drilling for oil in the Barents Sea does not violate a constitutional right to a healthy environment.
January 04, 2018
Residents in two local villages joined the Week of Protest, an initiative by environmental group Save Pechora.
December 28, 2017

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