At a ceremony in Abuja, Swedish Ambassador to Nigeria, Svante Kilander, signed a US$6.7m grant to support the ECOWAS programme on climate change.
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Sweden commits US$6m to African climate change initiative
Posted on 14 April 2013.
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Massive Greenland ice chunk begins to break apart
Posted on 25 September 2012.
A huge chunk of ice that recently broke of from Greenland is reportedly now breaking into pieces. The Manhattan-sized piece of ice – dubbed PII-2012 by officials from Nasa –broke free from the edge of Greenland’s massive Peterman Glacier in July.
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Greenland Ice ‘could be gone in 10 years’
Posted on 15 August 2012.
New data compiled by the European Space Agency (ESA) has suggested that Greenland’s ice sheet is melting much faster than previously thought.
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Norway climate paper finally published
Posted on 04 May 2012.
The Norwegian government finally released its delayed climate white paper last week, claiming it will take ‘offensive’ measures to drastically cut the country’s CO2 emissions by 2050.
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Faithful encouraged to practice ‘eco-fasting’
Posted on 15 February 2012.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland is encouraging its flock to take a different slant on Lent this year by committing to ‘eco-fasting’.
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Icelandic president en route to Antarctica
Posted on 30 January 2012.
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, the President of Iceland, and First Lady Dorrit Moussaieff, are currently sailing to Antarctica, according to the President’s office near Reykjavík. Al Gore, Nobel laureate and former US Vice President invited them to visit the southernmost continent on the planet.
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Glacier melting could be reversible
Posted on 26 December 2011.
The melting of Greenland’s glaciers may be more sensitive to climate change than previously assumed, according to new research which found they can also quickly expand during relatively short periods of climatic cooling.
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Bluefin tuna in Icelandic waters
Posted on 30 September 2011.
The northern bluefin tuna is one of the most valuable and endangered Atlantic fish species and almost never strays as far north as Iceland. When 12 of the giants turn up aboard and Icelandic trawler, eyebrows are raised.
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