Greenland inspires Arctic Bay, Canada tourism strategy
Arctic Bay, Nunavut has everything going for it when it comes to attracting tourists. This predominantly Inuit community of around
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Month: August 2013
Finland’s berry pickers face negative attitudes, middling crop
Thousands of foreign berry pickers are descending on Finland for the annual harvest ritual. In some cases the workers have
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Archaeologists uncover pre-contact Inupiat village near Kiana, Alaska
A team of archaeologists from Brown University have uncovered a Native village site in Northwest Alaska that dates from just
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Report suggests subsidies for internet, phone bills in Canada’s North
A new report by the Conference Board of Canada’s Centre for the North is highlighting some of the problems with
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The EU Commission and Sweden’s wolves
The European Commission remains skeptical of Swedish arguments that a wolf hunt would be the best way to protect the
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Alaska judge rejects setnetters’ bid for additional fishing time in Cook Inlet
Demands for more salmon in the setnets of commercial fishermen working the east side of Cook Inlet have been thrown
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U.S. tourists missing in Nunavut, Canada presumed dead
Two American fishermen who vanished on a remote Nunavut lake are presumed dead and the search is now a recovery
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Arctic police seize pot in Kaktovik, Alaska
North Slope Borough police and postal service inspectors seized nearly a pound of marijuana Tuesday, which was being shipped from
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Nunavut, Canada community to get new high school
The hamlet of Igloolik, Nunavut, will be getting a new high school that is planned to open in September 2017.
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Public access versus commercial exploitation of Sweden’s countryside
There’s concern that the right of public access here is being abused by companies sending dozens of berry pickers onto
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Treacherous conditions plague cleanup of sunken vessel in Southwest Alaska
A month has passed and the 78-foot vessel the Lone Star is still lying capsized in the Igushik River, slowly
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Microplastics – the latest threat to the Baltic
Microplastics are small particles of plastic in the environment, so tiny as to often be invisible to the naked eye.
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