Whew! Interior Alaska still cooking, with Eagle hitting 92 degrees
Anchorage may have had a relatively warm summer, but Alaska’s largest city can’t compare to the heat baking Interior Alaska.
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Month: August 2013
As the Puffin Flies: The UK and the Arctic
The Farne Islands, England lie at 55 degrees N. Off the coast of Northumberland, they’re not too far from Newcastle,
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Gray whale baby boom holding strong despite persistent sea ice in 2012
It’s apparently a good year to be a gray whale, despite menacing killer whales and the persistent sea ice around much
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Deninu K’ue chief questions timing of Avalon mine announcement in Canada’s N.W.T.
The chief of the Deninu K’ue First Nation in Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories is questioning Avalon Rare Metals’ plans to
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De Beers Canada eyes expansion to mine project near Attawapiskat
De Beers Canada is looking into the possibility of extending its current Victor Mine project on northern Ontario’s James Bay
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Record heat wave bakes Canada’s North
Historically high heat over the past week has led to broken temperature records in all three northern territories but residents
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The Changing Arctic: Spotlight Chukotka
The warming climate is having significant changes on permafrost across the world’s northern regions. This year at Eye on the
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Sweden’s most common jellyfish disappearing
Swedish Radio News reports that the Moon Jellyfish, once common in the North Sea, has largely vanished from off Sweden’s
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Two dead in Norwegian-Swedish coach collision
A Taiwanese and a Norwegian woman died in a head-on collision between a Swedish tourist coach and a Norwegian bus
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If the Arctic booms, will Alaska’s workforce be ready?
As some of the world’s polar nations race to develop the melting Arctic, Alaska isn’t doing enough to prepare for
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Priceless Inuit artifacts still in Canada’s N.W.T. for lack of Nunavut museum
Ten years after a decision was made for a museum in Yellowknife, the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories, to temporarily
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Citizens against mandatory Swedish in Finland
A citizen’s initiative opposing mandatory Swedish-language classes in the Finnish school system has gathered 50,000 signatures within 6 months and
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VIDEO: Sixteen Minutes with TuuMotz
Meet TuuMotz, one of the founders of Nuuk Posse, Greenland’s seminal hip-hop group and now a solo artist. Here, Radio
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Canadian Icelandic festival features Viking culture
The Icelandic Festival of Manitoba wrapped up last week with spectators getting their last chance to experience a bit of
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Huge sea ice loss changing entire arctic ecosystem
The massive loss of sea ice in the arctic is happening so fast that species there cannot possibly evolve fast
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