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Ice-Blog:: Melting glacier risk to seabed ecosystem

Irene Quaile
Posted: Monday, November 16, 2015 at 19:44 — Last Updated: Friday, May 20, 2016 at 13:02
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On my first visit to the Arctic in 2007, I went out into the Kongsfjord at Ny Alesund, Spitsbergen, with

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Blog Business Business (Iceland) General Iceland Special Features 

Blog: Arctic like ‘discovering a new Africa,’ Iceland

Mia Bennett
Posted: Monday, November 16, 2015 at 16:49 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 16:38
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The Arctic Circle Singapore Forum convened last week in the hot and hazy tropical megalopolis. The forum is an offshoot of the

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Blog Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Environment, NATO & Alaska driving: Week in Review

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, November 16, 2015 at 14:05 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 16:38
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On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this

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Blog Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Maps, climate & Hunter Tootoo: Arctic week in review

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, November 9, 2015 at 15:24 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 16:38
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On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this

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Blog Canada Environment General Society Society (Canada) 

Ice-Blog: Farewell to ‘Last Ice’ victims

Irene Quaile
Posted: Friday, November 6, 2015 at 16:25 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 16:38
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Ice Blog readers may remember the story of the two ice researchers and polar explorers who died when they broke

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The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent in the Arctic in 2008. (Jonathan Hayward / The Canadian Press)
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Blog: Mapping the Arctic’s future while erasing its past

Mia Bennett
Posted: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 15:49 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 16:38
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Yesterday, Nature Climate Change published a new paper on mapping the future of the Arctic Ocean. The extent of open water

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Blog Canada General Society Special Features 

Speed, politics & TransCanada: Week in Review

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, November 2, 2015 at 14:37 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 16:38
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On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this

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Blog General Russia Society Society (Russia) Special Features 

Blog: Travelling to Arctic Russia by train

Mia Bennett
Posted: Thursday, October 29, 2015 at 16:41 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 16:38
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When most people think of Russian railroads, they think of the Trans-Siberian Railway. The world’s longest railroad extends east and west

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A judge has ordered Alaska officials to provide more outreach and resources to Yup’ik- and Gwich’in-speaking villagers in the upcoming November election. (iStock)
Blog Canada General Society Society (Canada) Special Features 

Trudeau, shipping & Arctic conflict: Week in Review

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, October 26, 2015 at 13:17 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 16:38
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On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this

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Blog Environment General 

Ice-blog: Arctic plastic “garbage patches”

Irene Quaile
Posted: Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 18:19 — Last Updated: Friday, October 23, 2015 at 13:37
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There are a lot of things you might want to discover on a research cruise in the Arctic. Chunks of

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Falling commodity prices have affected the economies of all three of Canada's northern territories. (iStock)
Blog Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Blog: Election results in Canada’s North

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 20:28 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 15:36
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Canadians went to the polls on Monday, October 19 and elected a Liberal majority government for the first time since

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Stories concerning everything from drilling and education, to journalism and the environment, were among your most read stories this week. (iStock)
Blog Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) Special Features 

Blog:Put up or shut up with your Arctic Conflict Theory

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 18:03 — Last Updated: Friday, May 20, 2016 at 12:45
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The Arctic is on the verge of conflict; so the theory goes. Melting ice is uncovering a trove of riches,

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Blog Canada General Society Society (Canada) Special Features 

Politics, plastics and whaling: Arctic week in Review

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, October 16, 2015 at 19:51 — Last Updated: Monday, October 19, 2015 at 13:47
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On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this

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The nuclear-powered icebreaker 50 Let Pobedy (50 Years of Victory) at the North Pole in 2013. Here, it brought the Olympic Flame to the North Pole for the first time during the torch relay for the 2014 Sochi Winter Games. (Sergei Dolya/AP)
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Blog: Arctic cruise industry expands

Mia Bennett
Posted: Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 18:07 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 18:10
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In August, just as the short polar cruising season was winding down to a close, I sat down in a canteen at Moscow

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Arctic-Council-2015 Blog Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) Special Features Special Reports 

Blog: The Arctic Council’s Capacity Challenge

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 15:32 — Last Updated: Friday, October 16, 2015 at 15:25
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Last month the Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples’ Secretariat (IPS) put out a request for proposals (RFP) for the long-discussed funding

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The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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