Ice-Blog: Obama stops oil in Arctic Wildlife Reserve
Back in Germany after spending a week and a half on the RV Helmer Hanssen off the coast of Spitsbergen, and then in Norw
Alaska: Bristol Bay sockeye’s prey quality affected by ocean temperature
Having healthy and plentiful returns of salmon each season is an important issue to subsistence, sport and commercial fi
Arctic Ocean may be next as Alaska officials seethe over ANWR move
Emotions continued to rise on Monday over President Barack Obama’s initiative to increase protection for the Arctic Nati
Submariners feed polar bears with garbage
These revealing photos, taken at an unknown location in the Arctic, show how crewmembers of a Russian nuclear powered su

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

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

Tag Kaunisvaara mine, labour, Lapland, Northland Resources, unemployment, work

A polar bear walks plies the line between the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Arctic Ocean along a barrier island on Sept. 10, 2012. (Loren Holmes/ Alaska Dispatch News)

To drill or not to drill? ANWR vs. the Arctic Ocean

President Barack Obama’s decision to support continued exploration in the often ice-choked U.S. Arctic Ocean, while trying to lock up development in the Arctic National Wildlife Re[...]

28 Jan 2015

Tag Alaska, ANWR, Arctic, Arctic Frontiers, climate, Obama, oil, polar bears, research, wildlife

UTair at the airport in Naryan-Mar. (Thomas Nilsen/Barents Observer)

Economic crisis hit airlines hard in Russia’s western Arctic

It will be a tough year for air companies flying in Barents Russia, including Transaero, UTair and Nordavia. UTair, with hub in Syktyvkar in the Komi Republic, is currently negotia[...]

28 Jan 2015

Tag Barents Observer, international, Nordavia, tourism, Transaero, travel, UTair

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

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

Tag Banks, energy

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

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

Tag Alaska, Canada, history, museums, Russia

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

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

Tag #savethearctic, aboriginal, Arctic Council, Arctic Frontiers, energy, Germany, Greenpeace, Norway

Russia, Finland, oil – Arctic week in Review

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

Tag Alaska, energy, Gazprom, military

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

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

Tag Banks, energy

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

No new nuclear power programmes in Sweden

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

Tag energy, nordic, Vattenfall

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

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

Tag economy, Russia, Sparebank-1

The Tromso debate continues: do we need Arctic oil? (Irene Quaile)

Ice-Blog: Obama stops oil in Arctic Wildlife Reserve

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

Tag Alaska, ANWR, Arctic, Arctic Frontiers, climate, Obama, oil, polar bears, research, tromso, Warming, wildlife

Alaska: Bristol Bay sockeye’s prey quality affected by ocean temperature

Having healthy and plentiful returns of salmon each season is an important issue to subsistence, sport and commercial fishermen alike. But, relatively little is known about what ha[...]

27 Jan 2015

Tag climate, conservation, fish, oceans, rivers

Former Greenlandic Premier Kuupik Kleist introduces the delegation from Japan, and worlds collide.(Mia Bennett)

Arctic Circle 2014: Welcome to the new global Arctic

The Arctic has been no stranger to foreigners for quite some time. Although Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson opened the 2014 Arctic Circle conference by declaring, “The n[...]

04 Nov 2014

Tag Arctic, Arctic Circle, Iceland, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

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

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

Tag animals, military, Norway, Russia, WWF

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