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(Pictured here, plastic pollution in Thailand.)
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Iceland to host international symposium on plastics in Arctic and sub-Arctic

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, October 21, 2019 at 15:50 — Last Updated: Friday, October 25, 2019 at 13:31
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Iceland will host an international symposium on plastics in the Arctic and sub-Arctic this April to share best practices and

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Blog – Geoengineering climate fixes popular at Arctic Circle assembly

Mia Bennett
Posted: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 14:53 — Last Updated: Friday, October 18, 2019 at 14:05
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At Arctic Circle 2019, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, it seemed, had not gotten the memo: Oil is out,

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Environment Environment (Iceland) General Iceland 

Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry calls for climate action at Arctic Circle assembly

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 11:20 — Last Updated: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 14:54
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This is the war we must wage and win, says former U.S. Secretary of State as he encourages everyone, from

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Environment Environment (Iceland) General Iceland 

Sweden’s Crown princess calls for action in Arctic during Iceland conference

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, October 11, 2019 at 10:32 — Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2019 at 13:23
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The Arctic is a global issue that requires global resolve, says Victoria of Sweden and links her Arctic enthusiasm to

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(Pictured here, plastic pollution in Thailand.)
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Arctic Council group lobs GPS-bugged capsules into Atlantic to track litter trajectories in the North

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 08:29 — Last Updated: Friday, September 20, 2019 at 13:59
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The Arctic council working group focused on the polar marine environment is taking a novel approach raising awareness around marine

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Environment Environment (Iceland) General Iceland 

Nordic PMs sign climate declaration at Iceland meeting

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 at 14:25 — Last Updated: Friday, August 23, 2019 at 11:44
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A meeting of Nordic Prime Ministers ended in Reykjavik, Iceland on Tuesday with the signing of a joint declaration on

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Iceland glacier lost to climate change to get memorial ceremony this month

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, August 2, 2019 at 15:18 — Last Updated: Friday, August 2, 2019 at 15:19
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Iceland’s Okjökull glacier, or should we say former glacier, will be getting a memorial service this month when a delegation

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Environmental groups call for action on black carbon pollution

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at 14:03 — Last Updated: Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 10:46
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Environmental groups blasted the U.S. Wednesday for torpedoing the traditional joint declaration at the conclusion of the biennial Arctic Council

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Scientists puzzled by right whale’s appearance off Iceland

Gail Harding, CBC News
Posted: Friday, July 27, 2018 at 15:23 — Last Updated: Friday, July 27, 2018 at 15:51
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While it has happened before, seeing an Atlantic right whale swimming in waters off of Iceland is still rare. But

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[SPECIAL REPORT] Arctic tourism in the age of Instagram

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 12:59 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 09:22
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When most people think of Arctic economic development, things like resource extraction are usually first to mind. But northern regions

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Arctic Council forum launches web portal explaining Polar Code

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 13:13
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A new web portal has launched this month to help raise awareness, and provide timely information, about the International Maritime Organization’s

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Business Business (Iceland) Culture Culture (Iceland) Environment Environment (Iceland) Longform Society Society (Iceland) 

Arctic tourism in the age of Instagram

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, May 18, 2018 at 09:00 — Last Updated: Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 09:48
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Arctic tourism in the age of Instagram

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Environmental groups call on Arctic cruise industry to reduce pollution in Iceland

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, September 7, 2017 at 18:31 — Last Updated: Thursday, September 7, 2017 at 19:38
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Recent air samples taken in Iceland suggest cruise ships arriving and departing from Reykjavik are negatively affecting air quality, according

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In this July 18, 2011 photo, an Inuit fisherman pulls in a fish on a sea filled with floating ice left over from broken-up icebergs shed from the Greenland ice sheet in Ilulissat, Greenland. (Brennan Linsley/AP Photo)
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Meeting in Iceland discusses banning unregulated Arctic fishery

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Thursday, March 16, 2017 at 21:35 — Last Updated: Friday, March 17, 2017 at 16:37
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Representatives of Arctic nations and major fishing powers are meeting in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik to hammer out a

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Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge can help us prevent climate changes says Ban Ki-moon

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 16:19
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The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urges governments to ensure that Indigenous Peoples’ rights and contributions remain central when ways to

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