Arctic
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The prestigious Photographer of the Year title has been awarded to Juliette Pavy for her series Spiralkampagnen: Forced Contraception and Unintended Sterilisation of Greenlandic Women
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As the Arctic warms, devastating the climate and ecosystems, an old idea used to create skating rinks could be deployed to restore melting ice caps, despite scepticism from some experts
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Sea ice around the north pole is disappearing at an alarming rate. A group of scientists went on a mission to investigate the effects of the climate crisis on the region
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Hundreds of discoveries made on Sir John Franklin’s ships, but storm damage makes wrecks increasingly dangerous
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Books, films and plays set in Lapland often feature ‘dark humour’ where the landscape is a looming presence
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As remote Arctic crossing points are shut, officers say they plan to stick to the job in the glare of a geopolitical spotlight
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The poet laureate faces the climate crisis head-on in Svalbard, and presents a new poem, The Summit
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Konstantin Dobrovolski, who has spent decades finding and reburying those killed in WW2, says Ukraine invasion was ‘madness’
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The warming planet is causing steep declines among some of the world’s 26,000 wild polar bears, but it is not universal and the picture is complicated, say experts
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Images taken in 1845 of Sir John Franklin and his crew on the ill-fated HMS Erebus and Terror – believed lost until recently – are to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in LondonGallery
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The environment Inuit have lived in for millennia is changing fast. Canada’s government once ignored Indigenous knowledge of it but now they are jointly creating the Nunatsiavut conservation area
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The ice once protected the Arctic ocean from threats – but as it melts it exposes the sea to fishing, shipping, mining and pollution. Would special status protect this fragile ecosystem or is it too late?
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Indigenous people and experts say Moscow’s military push and increased shipping and mining will destroy Arctic environment
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