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Sweden's Sami fear for future amid rare earth mining plans
Kiruna, Sweden (AFP) Sept 8, 2025 Sweden's indigenous Sami fear they will lose their livelihood and culture if plans go ahead to mine a large rare earths deposit located on their traditional reindeer grazing grounds in the far north. Rare earth elements are essential for the green transition, including electric vehicle battery production, and the large discovery made in Sweden in early 2023, as well as an even bigger one in Norway in 2024, has boosted Europe's hopes of cutting its dependence on China. The Asian country is home t ... read more |
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Glaciers in Tajikistan show signs of irreversible decline as snowfall dropsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2025 Too little snowfall is now destabilizing some of the world's most resilient glaciers, according to new research led by the Pellicciotti group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA ... more 
Algal blooms shaped global carbon cycle during Antarctic Cold ReversalBremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Sep 03, 2025 At the close of the last ice age, massive algal blooms in the Southern Ocean helped slow the rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to new research from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). Th ... more 
Once king of the seas, a giant iceberg is finally breaking upParis (AFP) Sept 2, 2025 Nearly 40 years after breaking off Antarctica, a colossal iceberg ranked among the oldest and largest ever recorded is finally crumbling apart in warmer waters, and could disappear within weeks. ... more 
Denmark summons US diplomat over Greenland 'interference'Copenhagen (AFP) Aug 27, 2025 Denmark summoned the US charge d'affaires on Wednesday after reports of attempted interference in Greenland, a Danish autonomous territory that US President Donald Trump wants to take over. ... more |
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Body of missing man found on melting glacier after 28 yearsKhaplu, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 7, 2025 The family of a missing man whose body was discovered on a melting glacier in Pakistan after 28 years said Thursday its recovery had brought them some relief. ... more 
Reindeer suffer as Finland swelters in record heatwaveHelsinki (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 A record-long heatwave in Finland has caused suffering and even deaths of reindeer, prompting alarm among herders as temperatures remained above 25C on Tuesday. ... more 
Greenland subglacial lake eruption reshapes surface ice landscapeParis, France (SPX) Aug 01, 2025 Using data from ESA's CryoSat and Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2, along with NASA's ICESat-2, researchers have uncovered a dramatic flood event in northern Greenland where pressurized meltwate ... more 
Turkey's glaciers fall victim to climate changeTurkey (AFP) July 29, 2025 Kemal Ozdemir looked up at the bare peaks of Mount Cilo in Turkey's Kurdish majority southeast: "There were glaciers 10 years ago," he recalled under a cloudless sky. ... more 
Finland breaks 50-year-old heat recordHelsinki (AFP) July 25, 2025 Finland has broken an over 50-year-old weather record as the country is witnessing the longest period of temperatures above 30C, the Finnish Meteorological Institute said on Friday. ... more |
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The eye-opening science of close encounters with polar bears
Longyearbyen (AFP) July 22, 2025 It's a pretty risky business trying to take a blood sample from a polar bear - one of the most dangerous predators on the planet - on an Arctic ice floe. First you have to find it and then shoot it with a sedative dart from a helicopter before a vet dares approach on foot to put a GPS collar around its neck. Then the blood has to be taken and a delicate incision made into a layer of fat before it wakes. All this with a wind chill of up to minus 30C. For the last four decades experts fr ... read more 
Heat melts Alps snow and glaciers, leaving water shortageSaint-Christophe-En-Oisans, France (AFP) July 23, 2025 June's heatwave has caused snow and glaciers in the French Alps to melt faster, causing water shortages at mountain shelters just before the summer tourist hiking season gets into full swing. ... more |
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From Antarctica to Brussels, hunting climate clues in old iceBrussels, Belgium (AFP) July 18, 2025 In a small, refrigerated room at a Brussels university, parka-wearing scientists chop up Antarctic ice cores tens of thousands of years old in search of clues to our planet's changing climate. ... more 
Heat melts Alps snow and glaciers, leaving water shortageSaint-Christophe-En-Oisans, France (AFP) July 16, 2025 June's heatwave has caused French Alps snow and glaciers to melt faster, causing water shortages at mountain shelters just before the summer tourist hiking season gets into full swing. ... more 
Deadly China-Nepal flood caused by glacial lake: expertsKathmandu (AFP) July 9, 2025 Flash floods that killed at least nine people in a mountainous region between China and Nepal and swept away a key bridge linking the two countries, were caused by the release of water from a glacial lake, experts said Wednesday. ... more 
Glacier retreat could drive a surge in volcanic eruptions worldwideLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 08, 2025 Melting glaciers may be laying the groundwork for more explosive and frequent volcanic eruptions, according to new research presented at the Goldschmidt Conference in Prague. The study focuses on si ... more
German navy to patrol the ArcticCopenhagen (AFP) June 30, 2025 Germany's defence minister said Monday the country would send navy ships to patrol Arctic waters, citing the threat from a Russian military build-up in the region. ... more |
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