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It comes amid warnings of relentless Arctic heatwaves which could be set to continue indefinitely.

An estimated 20,000 tons of diesel oil spilled into the Ambarnaya River from a broken tank in Norilsk.

The peninsula is among the fastest-warming regions on earth.

An appeals court in Norway upheld a previous ruling against environmental campaigners.

Experts from several countries including the UK and US will be on board the German icebreaker RV Polarstern for the start of the major year-long expedition.

Scientists dropped onto the floes by helicopters and dinghies - and collected samples. It shows air pollution is more widespread than previously feared, they say.

With the ice melt on Greenland's icesheet commencing a month early huge areas of land have been exposed to record-breaking summer temperatures.

Scioentists say the project would need "unprecedented" feats of engineering - including the installation of several thousand wind turbines in the inhospitable region

The amount of ice circling Antarctica is suddenly plunging from a record high to record lows, baffling scientists. Floating ice off the southern continent steadily increased from 1979 and hit a record high in 2014, but three years later, the annual average extent of Antarctic sea ice hit its lowest ...