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Trump administration finalizes plan to open Alaska wildlife refuge to oil & gas drilling

The Associated Press
Posted: Friday, October 24, 2025 at 09:38 — Last Updated: Friday, October 24, 2025 at 09:43
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By Becky Bohrer  Decision paves way for future lease sales in coastal plain, an area considered sacred to Indigenous Gwich’in

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Nunavik eyes post-secondary education rooted in Inuit culture and offering Western credentials

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 15:46
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Education rooted in Inuit culture — but offering recognized Western credentials and based in the North — are among the

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Sweden to lead NATO force in challenging Arctic region

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:13 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 10:14
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Sweden is taking command of NATO’s FLF Finland force that will operate across the far north of Sweden, Finland and

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Repatriation of Indigenous artifacts key for cultural identity: Northern leaders

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 09:45
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‘You know who you are if you know where you come from,’ says Darrel Nasogaluak in Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T. Darrel Nasogaluak

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How the Arctic has been ‘pushed & triggered’ into climate extremes: paper

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, October 22, 2025 at 15:34
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As the Arctic warms at an unprecedented rate, a new scientific review outlines how events once considered rare — from

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Blog Featured • Zone 2 General Iceland Newsroom Picks • zone 1 Politics Politics (Iceland) 

Blog: Have we reached peak Arctic Circle?

Mia Bennett
Posted: Wednesday, October 22, 2025 at 12:56 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 22, 2025 at 12:57
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People often eagerly discuss the end of the Arctic. Yet realizing that the Arctic Circle Assembly may have peaked could

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (Canada) 

N.W.T. health minister pressed on response to Indigenous health-care report

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, October 22, 2025 at 09:02 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 22, 2025 at 10:12
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By Devon Tredinnick  Report released in May makes 13 recommendations to improve outcomes for Indigenous patients N.W.T.’s health minister had

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Inuit women’s summit in Greenland to tackle violence, rights and safety

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at 16:11 — Last Updated: Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at 16:14
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With Denmark’s recent apology for an involuntary birth control program that targeted Inuit women in Greenland until 1991 — and

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Indigenous artifacts held in Vatican Museums finally heading back to Canada

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at 13:50
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By Megan Williams Sources tell CBC News there is progress on an agreement to return objects by year’s end The

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Officials work to stabilize typhoon-damaged Alaska communities before winter freeze

The Associated Press
Posted: Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at 11:09
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The mass evacuation by military aircraft of hundreds of residents from Alaska villages ravaged by the remnants of Typhoon Halong

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Nunavut making ‘steady progress’ toward zero tuberculosis cases by 2030, gov’t says

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at 09:44
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Health department says cases have been falling since 2023 As cases of tuberculosis continue to drop, Nunavut’s Health department says

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How a Thunder Bay, Ont. women’s group is working to better include Inuit

CBC News
Posted: Monday, October 20, 2025 at 16:14
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By Rajpreet Sahota The Ontario Native Women’s Association has launched its first Inuit Women’s Council As the Inuit population in

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Moscow puts money on the table to raise nuclear subs from Arctic seabed

The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, October 20, 2025 at 14:57
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The Government’s draft budget for 2026, and the planned budget for 2027-2028, include funding to lift the K-27 and K-159,

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Wildfire seasons in the N.W.T. unlikely to ease off by next century, study finds

CBC News
Posted: Monday, October 20, 2025 at 13:01
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By Sarah St-Pierre  K’ahsho Got’ine Foundation executive director wants community to prepare for more local firefighting The Northwest Territories could

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 Finland General News Society Society (Finland) 

Finland’s shortest life expectancy for women in Lapland

Yle News
Posted: Monday, October 20, 2025 at 10:06
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Life expectancy in Finland has risen to the highest level in statistical history, according to figures published on Friday by

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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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