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A worker in front of a blast furnace at an iron and steel factory in China. (China Photos/Getty Images)

China, defence strategy & drilling: 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: - Blogger Mia Bennett takes a two-part look at China in the Arctic. Part 1[...]

06 Mar 2015

Tag art, Canadian Guild of Crafts, Finland, Greenland, housing, Iceland, mining, NATO, nordic, Suomi, women

Proposed cuts to public broadcasting funding rile rural Alaska radio listeners

JUNEAU — Facing the prospect of possibly devastating cuts proposed by a legislative committee, fans of public radio and television are turning out to say what it means to the[...]

06 Mar 2015

Tag Arctic, communications, media, oil, politics

The ice in the central Arctic Ocean thinned 65 percent between 1975 and 2012, a new study shows. (Thomas Nilsen/Barents Observer)

Arctic sea ice ‘thinning dramatically’, study finds

The Arctic sea ice is thinning at a steadier and faster rate than researchers previously thought, a new study based on combined observations finds. Using modern and historic measur[...]

06 Mar 2015

Tag climate, oceans, The Cryosphere, University of Washington

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, speaks during a news conference in Washington D.C. in 2013. (Jacquelyn Martin / AP)

Murkowski, King seek to enlist other U.S. senators in an Arctic caucus

Coming soon to the U.S. Capitol is a new group of lawmakers: the Senate Arctic Caucus. As of Tuesday, the group was just a nucleus of two — Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Repu[...]

05 Mar 2015

Tag Alaska, Angus King, Lisa Murkowski, Maine

China, defence strategy & drilling: 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: - Blogger Mia Bennett takes a two-part look at China in the Arctic. Part 1[...]

06 Mar 2015

Tag art, Canadian Guild of Crafts, Finland, Greenland, housing, Iceland, mining, NATO, nordic, Suomi, women

Deline self-government agreement passes 1st reading

Deline hopes to have N.W.T.’s first community self-government by April 2016 The community of Deline, N.W.T., took an important step Monday in becoming the first community sel[...]

27 Feb 2015

Tag deline, government, northwestern territories

Greenland: There be iron. (Mia Bennett, 2014)

Blog: China – Mining & housing in the Arctic

Last week, I reviewed China’s past year in the Arctic. In its first full year as an Arctic Council observer, a status it won in May 2013 along with four other Arctic countries, the[...]

03 Mar 2015

Tag energy, Hong Kong, London Mining, North, pollution, Russia, shipping, Zhuoda Group

Finland: Gravel used on slippery streets leaves contaminents in spring

Harmful contaminants accumulate in the gravel used for sanding the icy roads in Finland, particularly when it is used on asphalt. If contaminant limit values are exceeded, the grav[...]

05 Mar 2015

Tag contamination, pollution, transportation, winter

Introduce carbon tax on meat and flights say Swedish researchers

The amount of carbon dioxide emissions within Swedish borders has decreased, but the total amount of emissions caused by Swedish consumers has increased because of things like meat[...]

02 Mar 2015

Tag Chalmers University of Technology, climate, Dagens Nyheter, emissions, nordic, pollution

Arctic sea ice ‘thinning dramatically’, study finds

The Arctic sea ice is thinning at a steadier and faster rate than researchers previously thought, a new study based on combined observations finds. Using modern and historic measur[...]

06 Mar 2015

Tag climate, oceans, The Cryosphere, University of Washington

Proposed cuts to public broadcasting funding rile rural Alaska radio listeners

JUNEAU — Facing the prospect of possibly devastating cuts proposed by a legislative committee, fans of public radio and television are turning out to say what it means to the[...]

06 Mar 2015

Tag Arctic, communications, media, oil, politics

Murkowski, King seek to enlist other U.S. senators in an Arctic caucus

Coming soon to the U.S. Capitol is a new group of lawmakers: the Senate Arctic Caucus. As of Tuesday, the group was just a nucleus of two — Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Repu[...]

05 Mar 2015

Tag Alaska, Angus King, Lisa Murkowski, Maine

Two sheep walking down an empty road in Iceland's East Fjords. (iStock)

Blog: China’s year in the Arctic

Thursday marked the first day of the Year of the Sheep (or ram or goat, depending on how you translate it). Hundreds of millions of people in China, across Asia, and in diaspora co[...]

02 Mar 2015

Tag international, New Year, politics

Russian Arctic regions of Murmansk and Yamal widen cooperation

Two important regions in Russia’s Arctic ambitions – Murmansk and Yamalo-Nenets, have signed an agreement on cooperation. Governor of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Dmitry Kobylkin[...]

04 Mar 2015

Tag agriculture, Barents, politics, Science, technology, tourism

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