Polish builders work in Norway's Arctic darkness
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REINE, Norway  - "It's as if the Earth ends with these islands," says Bogumil Lewandowski, a Polish construction worker living on Norway's Lofoten Islands, north of the Arctic Circle.
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Electricity was restored to most homes in an Arctic village Wednesday, four days after the community lost power in a fierce blizzard and was thrown into the deep freeze.
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Global warming (news - web sites) is heating the Arctic almost twice as fast as the rest of the planet in a thaw that threatens the livelihoods
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The first consignment of seeds bound for the "doomsday vault" on Svalbard have arrived in Norway.
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Construction and installation work on Finland's largest, three-megawatt windmill began on an island fronting Oulu on Thursday.
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Global warming is increasingly rendering Inuit and other Arctic peoples at a loss for words. They simply do not have names in their languages for the temperate species flocking up from the south.
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Once the scene of the Solidarity strikes which broke the back of communism, a new investment seeks to turn Poland's Gdansk shipyards into Eastern Europe's answer to the London docklands.
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Polish and Norwegian authorities have fixed the financial terms for a pipeline to channel natural gas from Norway&#39;s offshore fields to Poland, which is trying to lessen its reliance on Russian energy, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg announced Friday.
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Giant electrical circuits power the magical open-air light show of the auroras, forming arcs in high-latitude regions like Scandinavia.
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CASILDA, Cuba -- Tiny flames jump and sputter in the night here, suspended above the roadbed as if held by an invisible wand.
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A British local authority has erected road signs in Polish to cater for growing numbers of drivers from the eastern European country.
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Banners in the North Korean capital proclaim a bright future for the world's newest nuclear power, but after sunset pedestrians make their way in near darkness because there is not enough power for streetlamps.
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Britain and Norway send jet fighters to shadow eight Russian long-range bombers in the Arctic.
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A study of warming in the Arctic shows that gases from tailpipes and smokestacks are contributing to profound environmental changes.
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An international team of scientists says the Arctic is warming much more rapidly than previously known because of the burning of fossil fuels around the world.
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Flights launched in Arctic will be first to take people inside the northern lights
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There's more to the recent dramatic and alarming thawing of the Arctic region than can be explained by man-made global warming alone, a new study found. Nature is pushing the Arctic to the edge, too