Finnish Lapland, the official home of Santa Claus, could experience snow-free ‘black Christmases’ by 2050, according to a new study. Read the full story

The latest edition of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World reveals a somewhat different picture of Greenland than in the edition of the book which was published in 1999. Read the full story

President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson of Iceland is currently in Alaska to give a speech at the opening of an international conference. The conference is on the importance of careful planning for the future shipping lanes slowly being created by melting Arctic ice. Read the full story

A glaciologist has warned that, after a year of record-breaking temperatures, the Greenland ice sheet is “retreating and thinning extensively” and global warming is “worse than ever”. Read the full story

The following is an open letter on climate change sent from Anthony Giddens and Martin Rees to leading media sources in over 50 countries: Read the full story

Iceland’s glaciers have never retreated as much as they did this year – especially the ones in the south. The unusually warm summer weather and ash from Eyjafjallajokull are being blamed. Read the full story

Icelandic glaciologist Helgi Bjornsson believes all Iceland’s melting glaciers will be gone within 150 to 200 years. This includes Europe’s largest glacier, Vatnajokull. Read the full story

The ozone layer above Sweden was much denser this February than usual following years of dire warnings of dangerously low levels in the stratosphere. Just one year after recording the second-thinnest ozone layer in its history for a February, Swedish meteorologists have now discovered the ozone layer is thicker than it’s been in decades. Read the full story

Discussions over establishing a joint Nordic air patrol that would monitor the regions of the Arctic Sea where ice is disappearing are currently under consideration by the Nordic countries. As global warming causes the normally ice-choked Arctic Sea to break up, the prospect of opening shipping routes through the region is now a real possibility. Read the full story

In an alarming sign that global warming is an immediate and present reality, an ancient ice cave located at Lake Inari has melted this year for the first time in living memory. The cave, located on Finland’s island of Korkia-Maura has been a traditional Saami site for the summer storage of food such as fish and game for generations. Read the full story