Unemployment looms in Norway
After a decade with plenty of jobs, unemployment in Norway takes an upturn. Jobless figures remain low, but the trend
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Society (Norway)
Chinese sailor to take on Northern Sea Route
Chinese sailor Guo Chuan intends to make it from Murmansk to the Bering Strait in 14 days without engine power
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Blog: A railroad of dreams and nightmares across Arctic Norway
After the High North Dialogue wrapped up in Bodø, Norway on March 19, most participants returned home via airplane. Air travel is
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Column: Journalists want to report on Barents region – Here’s why it’s not working
In basically every newsroom in the Barents region you can find journalists who are willing to report about what is
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Finnmarksløpet 2015 dog sledge race underway in Europe
Europe’s longest and and one of the world’s hardest dog sledge races, Finnmarksløpet, takes place this week. The winner becomes
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Norway launches High North military exercise
5000 soldiers and 400 vehicles take part in the largest winter exercise in Finnmark since 1967 Soldiers from all of the
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Ice-Blog: Tromso filmfest inspires US Arctic envoy
Tromso prides itself on being the “capital of the north”. As well as the Arctic Frontiers conference, which is happening this week,
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Ice-Blog: Locked up with deep-breathing krill
This morning started with a kind of international incident. My fellow Brit Carl Ballantyne and I were horrified to see
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Surfing in the Arctic
Surfing is surprisingly hot in the Lofoten Islands, 200 km north of the Arctic Circle. “It’s all happening in the Arctic!”
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Fears that 250 people will move from Svalbard, Norway
The mayor of Longyearbyen, the largest settlement on the Svalbard archipelago in Norway’s Arctic, fears that more than ten percent of the population
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History revealed by WW2 wrecks in Norway’s Arctic fjords
In the 70 years since the war, more than a dozen wrecks of planes and ships have been found on
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Sami people want to be present in European Union
The Sami Council, which is an umbrella organization for Sami organizations in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, has agreed that
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Norway: Sami voices not heard in Finnmark liberation ceremony
On the day where messages of thanks and remembrance are flying fast between the Norwegian and Russian peoples gathered in
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The food crisis in the Far North
Global warming could trigger a food crisis in the High North with hunters’ ability to live of the land threatened
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Tourists suspected after narwhal tusk goes missing in Svalbard, Norway
A narwhal tusk has been stolen from Svalbard, a popular, protected Arctic tourist destination. The governor’s office has asked for
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