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Finnish Heritage Agency scouring countryside for ancient monuments

19 June 2019 Yle News 0 Comments archeology, history, monuments

The Finnish Heritage Agency (FHA) is conducting a nationwide field inspection of ancient monuments protected by the government. The Nationally

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Sweden generating growing amounts of plastic waste

19 June 201921 June 2019 Mona Hambreus, Radio Sweden 0 Comments garbage, plastic, plastics, recycling

There’s been a big rise in how much plastic waste Sweden produces, up 40 percent in just the last five

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Trial starts for man charged with ‘unlawfully’ killing polar bear in northwestern Canada

19 June 2019 Avery Zingel, CBC News 0 Comments bears, hunting, justice, Northwest Territories, NWT, polar bears

A man facing charges for allegedly hunting a polar bear in the Beaufort Delta region without tags is on trial

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Alaska’s first wireless 5G network to be built in Anchorage

19 June 2019 Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments 5G, Alaska, communications, GCI, Internet, telecommunications

The state’s largest telecommunications company announced it’s building the first 5G wireless network in the state’s largest city. GCI will

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Long format – Rescue services in Arctic Norway not ready for Svalbard cruise boom

19 June 201921 June 2019 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments cruise ships, search and rescue, Svalbard, tourism

“We will never be able to have a 100 percent rescue preparedness around Svalbard,” says Bent-Ove Jamtli, Director of the

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Leaked report says teacher education program not sufficient in Nunavut, Arctic Canada

19 June 2019 CBC News 0 Comments education, indigenous, indigenous languages, Inuit, Inuktitut, Nunavut

A leaked report by a Vancouver-based research firm concluded that the Nunavut Teacher Education Program (NTEP) was “not capable of

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Alaska working group seeks way forward on permanent fund dividend amid heated debate

19 June 201919 June 2019 Andrew Kitchenman, Alaska Public Media & KTOO - Juneau 0 Comments Alaska, budget, legislation, Mike Dunleavy, Permanent Fund

The size of this year’s permanent fund dividend looms over every other issue facing the Alaska state government. Gov. Mike

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How climate change is thawing the ‘glue that holds the northern landscape together’ in Arctic Canada

19 June 201921 June 2019 Susan Ormiston, Mia Sheldon, CBC News 0 Comments climate change, global warming, Infrastructure, Inuvik, Northwest Territories, NWT, permafrost, Tuktoyaktuk

All Posts In one of the coldest places in Canada, Steve Kokelj is searching for Arctic thaw. He’s driving the

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China, Russia singled out in new U.S. Arctic defense strategy

19 June 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments 1988 Arctic Cooperation Agreement, Arctic Council, climate change, Mike Pompeo, Northern Sea Route, The Northwest Passage

China and Russia are being singled out in the new U.S. Arctic defense strategy, echoing the increasing rhetoric from U.S.

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Fossils found in northwestern Canada help scientists retrace steps of ancient hyena

18 June 201918 June 2019 CBC News 0 Comments fossils, hyenas, ice age, mammals, Old Crow, Paleontology, Yukon

A pair of fossilized teeth found near Old Crow, Yukon (northwestern Canada), in the 1970s sheds new light on the

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Alaska borough to split from Municipal League over its opposition to governor’s budget

18 June 2019 Casey Grove, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, Alaska Municipal League, budget, Matanuska-Susitna, Mike Dunleavy

The Matanuska-Susitna Borough is planning to leave the Alaska Municipal League at the end of June. That’s after Assembly members

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City council in Northern Canada considering path to reconciliation

18 June 2019 Gabriela Panza-Beltrandi, CBC News 0 Comments First Nations, indigenous, Northwest Territories, NWT, reconciliation, Yellowknife

A reconciliation plan for the city of Yellowknife is slowly making its way through city council. The city is getting

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Northern Canada: Smoke advisories in parts of Northwest Territories due to Alberta wildfires

18 June 2019 CBC News 0 Comments Alberta, Behchoko, Detah, disasters, Enterprise, Fort Providence, Fort Resolution, Hay River, Kakisa, Northwest Territories, NWT, wildfires, Yellowknife

The Northwest Territories’ chief public health officer has issued a wildfire smoke exposure advisory for people in parts of the

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Alaskans push for acceptance of walrus ivory, but there’s an elephant in the room

18 June 2019 Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, hunting, indigenous, ivory, legislation, Senate, walrus

U.S. federal law prohibits sales of African elephant ivory, but six states have now banned the sale of ivory more

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Northwestern Canada: How a changing Yukon River is reshaping an age-old ice bridge

18 June 2019 Meagan Deuling and Jonathan Ore, CBC Radio 0 Comments climate change, Dawson City, ice bridge, roads, transport, Yukon, Yukon River

The residents of Dawson City, in northwestern Canada, have an intimate relationship with the Yukon River. It’s why settlers first