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Säkylä, Satakunta, Finland
Yle Uutiset /
July 26, 2019
A total of 140 crashes and other accidents involving elk have been reported in the last week alone, police said, especially in the area around Pyhäjärvi lake near the town of Säkylä in the southwest of Finland.
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Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland
Yle Uutiset /
July 28, 2019
A swimming spot in northern Finland had unlikely visitors seeking solace from soaring temperatures.
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Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Zoe Sottile and Jessie Yeung, CNN /
CNN /
December 15, 2018
It rained on December 15th in Svalbard and the resulting ice made it difficult for reindeer to graze. The reindeer likely starved to death after being unable to find food, according to scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI).
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Turku, Southwest Finland, Finland
Yle Uutiset /
July 24, 2019
Researcher Sirpa Lehtinen from the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) said that cyanobacteria exist in seawater all year round, but intense heat causes them to multiply quickly.
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Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Evan Gershkovich /
The Moscow Times /
July 26, 2019
Authorities say some 300,000 bee colonies died in June and July. Experts blame pesticides — specifically neonicotinoids — but also varroa mites, the loss of natural habitat and flowers, and, more recently, climate change.
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Vanavara, Krasnoyarskiy, Russia
Anna Liesowska /
Siberia Times /
July 26, 2019
Some 784,931 hectares of wildfires are raging on permafrost zones including the Arctic in Yakutia - officially Sakha Republic - and the Khanty-Mansi autonomous region, causing possibly irreparable damage to the tundra. Other infernos are sweeping through boreal forests which are known as the lungs of the Northern Hemisphere.
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