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From left to right: Committee ranking member Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and committee chairman Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) listen during a session of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Capitol Hill January 8, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

Alaska senator swings at Obama Arctic wildness plan but misses

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Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski on Wednesday failed to land her first counterpunch at the Obama administration’s new Arctic conservation policies. The Senate rejected an amendment th[...]
29 Jan 2015
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St. Petersburg is Russia's second largest city with more than five million inhabitants. (Trude Pettersen/Barents Observer)

Nordic information office suspends activities in Russia

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The Nordic Council of Ministers’ office in St.Petersburg has suspended or postponed many of its planned activities in Russia after being included on the list of NGOs considered as [...]
29 Jan 2015
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The old town in Greenland's captial city of Nuuk. (Eilís Quinn/Eye on the Arctic)

Blog: Greenland – barrels of oil and bottles of water

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In the past week, there have been two interesting stories about Greenland in the news. The first is in The Economist,entitled, “Greenland and oil: Independence on ice.” The article[...]
29 Jan 2015
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Mining major LKAB might be part of a future deal on the Kaunisvaara mine in northern Sweden. (Jonas Karlsbakk/Barents Observer)

Bids given for Pajala mine in Arctic Sweden

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There are bidders for the Pajala mine in northern Sweden, the project sales manager says. The Kaunisvaara mine in Pajala, Swedish Lapland, closed as mining company Northland Resour[...]
28 Jan 2015
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CANADA

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Old chart identified as artifact from ill-fated Arctic voyage of the Karluk

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A stained and torn navigational chart donated two years ago to a museum in Maine turns out to be a document used on an infamous and ill-fated Arctic exploration voyage a century ag[...]
26 Jan 2015
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Greenpeace activist dressed like a polar bear in Prague, Czech Republic on October 13, 2014. (Michal Cizek/AFP/Getty Images)

‘Poverty porn,’ Obama & Inuit health: Arctic week in review

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On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories on Eye on the Arctic this week. - In #SavetheArctic…from Greenpeace Northern expert and Eye on the Arctic [...]
23 Jan 2015
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Russia, Finland, oil – Arctic week in Review

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On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories on Eye on the Arctic this week. Finland-Russia relations and the effect of dropping oil prices dominated t[...]
16 Jan 2015
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FINLAND

Finland: Does Nordea’s divesting of coal shares signal shift in Nordic market?

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One of the Nordic region’s biggest banks is pulling out of investments in coal. Though the sums involved are tiny compared to its overall holdings, the move could signal a broader [...]
28 Jan 2015
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SWEDEN

Sweden's Ringhals atomic power station in 2012. (Bjorn Larsson Rosvall/AFP/Getty Images)

No new nuclear power programmes in Sweden

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The plans to start new nuclear programmes in Sweden seem to have come to a halt as the roughly 50 Swedes who have worked for years to prepare for new nuclear power programmes have [...]
23 Jan 2015
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NORWAY

The biggest bank in northern Norway is loosing big money in neighboring Murmansk. (Atle Staalesen/Barents Observer)

Norwegian bank loses 300 million in Murmansk, Russia

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Murmansk was seen as an up-and-coming market for banks in Norway. Now they all flee the region with multi-million losses. The Sparebank-1 Northern Norway (SNN) now confirms that it[...]
23 Jan 2015
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USA

From left to right: Committee ranking member Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and committee chairman Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) listen during a session of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Capitol Hill January 8, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

Alaska senator swings at Obama Arctic wildness plan but misses

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Alaska senator Lisa Murkowski on Wednesday failed to land her first counterpunch at the Obama administration’s new Arctic conservation policies. The Senate rejected an amendment th[...]
29 Jan 2015
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The Tromso debate continues: do we need Arctic oil? (Irene Quaile)

Ice-Blog: Obama stops oil in Arctic Wildlife Reserve

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Back in Germany after spending a week and a half on the RV Helmer Hanssen off the coast of Spitsbergen, and then in Norway’s Arctic capital Tromso at Arctic Frontiers, I thought I [...]
28 Jan 2015
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ICELAND

St. Petersburg is Russia's second largest city with more than five million inhabitants. (Trude Pettersen/Barents Observer)

Nordic information office suspends activities in Russia

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The Nordic Council of Ministers’ office in St.Petersburg has suspended or postponed many of its planned activities in Russia after being included on the list of NGOs considered as [...]
29 Jan 2015
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RUSSIA

This bag with plastic waste and food garbage from the submarine is not the polar bear’s traditional dinner. (Location Unkown/ Provided by Blogger51 courtesy of Barents Observer)

Submariners feed polar bears with garbage

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These revealing photos, taken at an unknown location in the Arctic, show how crewmembers of a Russian nuclear powered submarine are attracting attention from a polar bear by throwi[...]
27 Jan 2015
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