New Research Helps Explain Gas Craters in Siberia

Spontaneous gas explosions appear to be increasing in northern Russia because of climate change and some specific local conditions.

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Denmark’s Parenting Test Becomes the Latest Flashpoint in Greenland

The case of a young Greenlandic woman who was ruled incapable of keeping her baby has become the latest flashpoint with Denmark.

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The Capital of Electric Cars Is Turning to Electric Planes

There are dozens of short daily flights to Norway’s islands, and the oil-producing Scandinavian country wants electricity to power them.

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Norway’s Navy Gets a Big Boost With U.K. Ship Deal

A plan to buy warships shows how Europe is bolstering defenses amid worries about Russian aggression and President Trump’s isolationist policies, analysts say.

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An Unusual Sight Over Canada’s Arctic: Wildfire Smoke

Once rare, wildfire smoke is becoming more prevalent in Arctic communities as Canada faces harsh wildfire seasons.

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Tristan Duke Sees Things We Don’t

A Los Angeles artist keeps upping the ante, whether photographing Arctic glaciers through lenses made of their own ice or using a camera that captures light itself at a trillion frames per second.

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Key Hurricane-Monitoring Data Will Stay Online, Officials Say

The Department of Defense said it no longer planned to shut down a program that makes satellite data publicly available to researchers and forecasters.

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Russia Beefs Up Forces Near Finland’s Border

Tents, shelters for fighter jets and warehouses for military vehicles show increased Russian presence near one of NATO’s newest members.

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Trump’s No. 1 Fan in Greenland: A Bricklayer Turned Political Player

Jorgen Boassen’s idolization of all things Trump, which has won him friends in Washington and sometimes hostile attention at home, has given him an unlikely new career: political influencer.

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Prepping for War With Russia on the Ice and Snow

President Trump may be turning relations with NATO and Russian inside out, but winter war games revealed that two militaries’ cooperation was unchanged.

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