🇳🇴Norway

Norway voted to open an area of Arctic seabed larger than Britain to mining; one lawsuit and two budget negotiations later, no licence will be issued before 2029.

Rain falling on snow freezes into a lid the reindeer cannot dig through, and a herder can lose a season's animals to one warm afternoon in January.

A small non-profit based in Andenes has built one of the world's longest continuous datasets on killer whales since 2014.

International volunteers on sailboats have hauled over 1,700 tonnes of plastic off Norway's remote beaches.