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China brought into the Arctic cold

UPDATED: Months of diplomatic intrigue ended on Wednesday when Arktisk Råd (the Arctic Council) decided to grant observer status to China and several other...

Government steps on the gas

Oil & Energy Minister Ola Borten Moe remains as bullish as ever in his drive to step up oil and gas exploration and production...

Spring chill blamed on warmer Arctic

As Norway woke up to yet another chilly, even frosty, morning on Monday, experts were linking this year's unusually cold spring weather to melting...

Classic ‘Lofoten’ calls at Lofoten

As the Easter holidays settled in, there was no break for the "Hurtigruten" vessels that sail up and down the Norwegian coast. We spotted...

Film team fined on Svalbard

A film team working for the BBC on Norway's Arctic archipelago of Svalbard is being fined NOK 50,000 (nearly USD 10,000) for allegedly disturbing...

Sled dog racer conquers Finnmark

Thomas Wærner, a 40-year-old musher from the mountains of Synnfjell in Oppland County, relished weekend celebrations after he logged what commentators called a decisive...

Hurtigruten ship ran aground

Norway's coastal shipping line Hurtigruten suffered another accident Monday night, this one rather embarrassing, admitted the captain involved. While showing tourists the opening of the...

Huge new energy reserves detected

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (Oljedirektoratet, NPD) unveiled new studies of southeastern portions of the Barents Sea and the area around the Arctic island of...

Tourists in Tromsø need ‘brodder’

Norway's northern city of Tromsø has been welcoming record numbers of winter tourists the past few years, many of them coming to see the...

New terminal to fuel Arctic growth

The mayor of the area around Norway's famed North Cape was jubilant this week, after Statoil announced that it intends to bring oil from...
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