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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 ...

At least 60 dead seals have been discovered along beaches of the Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea in northwestern Alaska, and scientists are trying to determine what caused their deaths, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Wednesday. The dead seals – bearded, spotted and ringed seals – ...