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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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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Manufacturing is virtually nonexistent in the Arctic, yet recent studies show that Eskimos and other Arctic peoples carry unusually high levels of human-made toxins.
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WARSAW : Poland intends to buy compressed natural gas from Norway until a planned pipeline between the two countries is completed, Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka said.
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Ice cores drilled from under the floor of the Arctic Ocean show it was once warm enough for swimming.
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The trading company Sumitomo said it and three partners planned to invest about $3.3 billion to develop a nickel project in Madagascar amid increasing worldwide demand for nonferrous metals. Sumitomo and the Korea Resources Corporation of South Korea will join with two Canadian companies, the Sherritt International Corporation and SNC Lavalin, to develop a nickel mine, build smelters and create shipping infrastructure, the company said. Production is expected to begin in the second half of 2010, said Sumitomo, based in Tokyo.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 17 (IPS) - When Marek and his wife Ania, both unemployed  Polish nationals in their thirties, left their home country for  Denmark on May 1 -- the day of EU enlargement -- they hoped to  get dream jobs and start on a new life.
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It's hard to find people who want to work on the killing floors at Maple Leaf Foods so the company has turned to Ukraine for workers.
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The midnight sun shines brightly over the Nordic stock market.
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Large parts of Scandinavia have suffered power cuts and traffic chaos following a severe winter storm.
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HAMMERFEST, Norway  - A 100-metre-high flame from a new gas plant symbolizes the rebirth of Hammerfest, which claims to be the world's northernmost town and is seeing its fortunes transformed by fossil fuels found off its coast.
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The Polish government on Monday tried to defuse a crisis on the country's eastern EU border, where truckers are facing days of jams amid a wage protest by customs officers.
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Finland's Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen shakes hands with his Polish counterpart Jaroslaw Kaczynski during their meeting in Warsaw, November 17.Comment
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LONGYEARBYEN, Svalbard  - In a cavern under a remote Arctic mountain, Norway will soon begin squirreling away the world's crop seeds in case of disaster.
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Just below the Arctic circle, amid sprawling tundra forests that are the only sign of life for hundreds of miles, geologists from Russia's state diamond monopoly Alrosa drill deep into grayish mud in search of precious gems.
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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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Utility crews restoring power to thousands left in the dark after a snowstorm last week neared the homestretch Wednesday, and hoped to have the majority of customers restored by nightfall.