Norway Begins Oil Production at Johan Castberg Field in Arctic
Johan Castberg oil development in the Barents Sea has started pumping, the second major field to begin operations in the ...
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Nestled In Norway's Arctic Wilderness Is One Of The World's Best Beaches Offering Midnight Sun
Visiting a beach in the Arctic Circle is an experience in a category of its own, and this beach in Norway was named one of ...
Forget your classic city break — I spent 24 hours in the 'Paris of the North'
Perched over 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, you’d be forgiven for thinking of Tromsø as snowy, inhospitable, and ...
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Awe-Inspiring Efforts are Cleaning Up the Arctic
It is common knowledge that Arctic cleanup work is challenging and expensive. Long distances, hard-to-access areas, scattered ...
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Russia accuses Norway of militarising Svalbard Arctic islands
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Russia accused Norway of militarising the Svalbard archipelago and said on Friday it had summoned the Norwegian ambassador to Moscow over the matter. "Moscow called on the ...
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A look at how the Canadian military is training for potential conflicts in the North
A swarm of troops dressed in white and wearing snowshoes glide across a frozen valley. Suddenly they stop, form a line, kneel and pull out their rifles. Smoke fills the air from the blanks fired ...
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Norway’s ski team suspends three staff members amid world championships cheating scandal
(CNN) — The Norwegian Ski Federation has suspended three members of staff amid a cheating scandal that has rocked the organization. On Sunday, the federation said that the suits of two ski ...
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Target Circle Week: 7 days of deals up to 50% off for Target Circle members
A classically trained journalist, Caroline Tanner covers news and travel for TPG. She is a dual-journalism graduate of Mizzou and Northwestern. The cards we feature here are from partners who ...
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'You look up and see light coming through': The divers venturing under the ice in the name of science
It is a world cut off from our own by thick blankets of floating ice, but some scientists are taking the plunge to learn how these frozen depths are changing. There is a 70cm-thick (28in) layer of ...
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Norway Clears Equinor for Two-Well Drilling Operation in North Sea
The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has granted Equinor a drilling permit for two wildcat wells in the North Sea. The permit is for wells 34/6-8 S and 34/6-8 A in production license 554. Equinor ...
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The Race for the Arctic Is Undermining Indigenous Rights
The Arctic region is becoming a theater for competition between states over its resources and geopolitical advantages. This is having a deeply harmful impact on the indigenous peoples of the Arctic, ...