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Here’s What You Need To Know About The Polar Vortex

"Polar vortex" has gained popularity and is used in the winter, when the Northern Hemisphere experiences its coldest months

Zenger

Arctic cold 'no sweat' for electric cars in Norway

Jessheim (Norway) (AFP) - Norwegian electric car owners have a word for the way they feel when they look nervously at their battery indicators while driving in subfreezing weather: "rekkevideangst", or "range anxiety".

AFP

In Norway's icy seas, freediver dances with killer whales

Spildra (Norway) (AFP) - Gliding stealthily through Norway's frigid Arctic waters, world champion freediver Arthur Guerin-Boeri defies the glacial temperatures and darkness to rub shoulders with one of the most fearsome sea predators -- killer whales.

AFP

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Primates colonised the Arctic during a period of ancient global warming -- their fate offers a lesson as climate change speeds up

Two new species of prehistoric primate were recently identified by scientists studying fossils from Canada’s Ellesmere Island in the high Arctic. The primates are closely related and likely originated from a single colonisation event, following which they split into two species: Ignacius dawsonae and Ignacius mckennai.

The Conversation

Spellbinding polar night gets darker in warming Arctic

At 10:40 a.m. on a day in January, two powerful beams of light from the Svalbard governor’s boat pierced the complete darkness of the mountain-fringed fjord it was sailing. It was carrying the children’s choir from this remote village’s church to visit an even more isolated Arctic outpost.

The Independent UK

What is the Polar Vortex? Met Office explains how Arctic phenomenon will affect February's weather

There is currently a Sudden Stratospheric Warming underway, which was linked to the Beast from the East in 2018 - here's what the forecasts say for the coming weeks

Chronicle Live

Putin discusses Russia's claim to giant chunk of Arctic Ocean seabed

President Vladimir Putin held talks on Friday with top security officials about the status of Russia's efforts to legally expand the outer boundaries of its continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean.

Reuters

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Norway's last Arctic miners struggle with coal mine's end

For more than 100 years, people came to the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard to work in coal mines

The Independent UK

Newton Stewart man organises Burns Supper - in Antarctica

Rob Kerr was one of around 140 people at the British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Research Station who celebrated the life of Robert Burns

Daily Record

Country diary: An Arctic rarity has caused a stir

Langstone, Hampshire: Hunkered down out of the wind, away from its cackling cousins, is a lone Sabine’s gull

The Guardian - UK

UK snow forecast: Ice and dense fog as temperatures drop to -6C in Arctic blast

Bitterly cold weather will continue into Friday with temperatures dropping as low as -6C while there is expected to be ice and dense fog in parts of the country

Daily Mirror

Alberta Clipper To Drop Snow In Chicago, Detroit Ahead Of Next Arctic Blast

A brewing storm is predicted to deliver a swath of accumulating snow from the northern Rockies to the northern and central plains

Zenger

Church helps mining community evolve in dark, warming Arctic

Social life in the Norwegian village of Longyearbyen — hemmed in by mountains, a glacier and a fjord on a remote Arctic island — has long revolved around its only church

The Independent UK

Exact date when UK will finally warm up as Arctic-conditions swamp Britain

The country has shivered in chilly temperatures for most of 2023 so far with freezing fog the latest to test people's nerves, but the Met Office has revealed warmer times are coming

Daily Mirror

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Snow warning for UK with blizzard-like conditions to hit and temperatures PLUMMET

More wintry weather is expected to fall in the coming weeks with several centimetres set to bring roads to a halt in some areas after weekend of freezing conditions

The Guardian - UK

Inuit warn ‘rock concert-like’ noise from ships affecting Arctic wildlife

Calls for mandatory measures to reduce underwater noise pollution as melting ice opens up shipping routes

Daily Mirror

UK weather forecast: Exact day heavy snow to return with 15cm falling in -8C Arctic blast

Weather maps show that heavy snow is set to return with freezing temperatures dipping to -8C, including flurries up and down the country, due to the impact of a polar vortex

The National (Scotland)

Scots help hold Burns supper in one of the 'remotest places' on Earth

Around 140 people, including 50 Scots, have gathered for the biggest-ever Burns supper held in Antarctica.

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UK Snow forecast: Map shows exact location where 7 inches will fall as 'polar vortex' hits

Brits should brace for a cold-hearted Valentine's Arctic blast next month, a weather expert has warned, with weather charts already showing seven inches of snow on the way to Scotland

AFP

Norway to offer record number of Arctic oil, gas exploration blocks

Oslo (AFP) - Norway on Tuesday said it plans to offer a record number of gas and oil exploration blocks in the Arctic, with environmental NGOs condemning an "aggressive" promotion of fossil fuels.

Daily Record

Haggis shipped to Antarctica for 'biggest ever' Burns Night celebration

Haggis was specially delivered to Antartica so that workers at the British Antarctic Survey's Rothera Research Station could mark Burns Night at the biggest-ever Burns Supper held on the continent.

AFP

Trial tests Norway's control of Arctic Svalbard resources

Oslo (AFP) - Norway's Supreme Court began hearing a sensitive case Tuesday that could set a legal precedent for the control of natural resources around the strategically important Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic.

Daily Mirror

UK weather: Brits braced for Arctic blast with 'polar vortex' and freezing fog

Freezing fog warnings remain on Sunday but warmer weather is on the horizon as the Arctic air gives way for the Atlantic wind before a return to the big freeze with polar vortex winds

AFP

Polar bear kills woman and baby in remote Alaskan village

Los Angeles (AFP) - A polar bear killed a young woman and her baby son in a remote area of Alaska, police said, in a rare attack by an animal battling the worst effects of human-caused climate change.

AFP

Moving house: Arctic mining town's move divides residents

Kiruna (Sweden) (AFP) - Each time he boasts about the colossal relocation of his town centre in the Swedish Arctic, Kiruna mayor Gunnar Selberg gets a dressing-down from a very dissatisfied resident: his wife.

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