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Rebecca Alty elected mayor of city of Yellowknife, in Northern Canada
Rebecca Alty will be the next mayor of Yellowknife. Voters cast their ballots in municipal elections across the N.W.T. on Monday. Ballots from the seven
CANADA
Rebecca Alty elected mayor of city of Yellowknife, in Northern Canada
Rebecca Alty will be the next mayor of Yellowknife. Voters cast their ballots in municipal elections across the N.W.T. on Monday. Ballots from the seven
DENMARK/GREENLAND
Increasing ocean acidification ushering era of uncertainty for Arctic, says report
If left unchecked, acidification levels in the Arctic Ocean will have significant consequences for northern communities as well as the rest of the globe says
SWEDEN
Löfven gets his chance at forming Sweden’s coalition government
On Monday, the speaker of Sweden’s parliament gave the leader of the Social Democrats, Stefan Löfven, two weeks to try to form a new government.
RUSSIA
Last three reactor compartments from Cold War subs to be pulled from Russia’s waters next year
Twenty-five years with safe decommissioning of Cold War submarines in the Russian north will come to an end next year. One hundred twenty nuclear-powered submarines
FINLAND
Finland’s endangered Saimaa seal population climbing back
The population of the endangered Saimaa ringed seal has risen to 392 individuals in Finland, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. An estimated
NORWAY
Barents region leaders dream of visa-free travel, but Schengen Agreement gives little hope
Regional leaders are on a crash course with national and international legislation as they call for the abolishment of the current visa regimes in the
ICELAND
Scientists puzzled by right whale’s appearance off Iceland
While it has happened before, seeing an Atlantic right whale swimming in waters off of Iceland is still rare. But an Icelandic whale-watching crew spotted
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USA
‘Our ancestors are our fire’: Elders and Youth conference hosted in southern Alaska
Day one of the annual Elders and Youth conference wrapped up in Anchorage, southern Alaska on Monday. The annual conference precedes the Alaska Federation of
