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Justin Trudeau, Mike Pompeo discussed Arctic cooperation during Thursday meeting

23 August 201923 August 2019 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments defence, Justin Trudeau, Mike Pompeo, military, Northwest Passage, SOVEREIGNTY

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed Canada-U.S. cooperation in the Arctic during Thursday’s

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Can the environment withstand Arctic Russia’s coal mining boom?

23 August 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments coal, emissions, energy, mining, national parks, POLICY

Climate crisis and environmental concern notwithstanding, Russia says it aims for a big dig of the carbon-rich rock. Much of

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Final agreement signed to protect Peel watershed in northwestern Canada

23 August 201923 August 2019 CBC News 0 Comments conservation, First Nations, indigenous, national parks, Peel watershed, Yukon

It has taken more than 15 years of consultations, protests, court battles and more consultations — and now a final

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Floating nuclear power plant leaves Murmansk for Russia’s eastern Arctic

23 August 201923 August 2019 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Akademik Lomonosov, energy, floating nuclear power plant, Murmansk, nuclear, nuclear power, Pevek, Rosatom

Tugs start towing floating nuclear power plant across the Northern Sea Route from Murmansk to Chukotka in what is just

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Calm winds helping firefighters battle wildfires in southcentral Alaska

23 August 201923 August 2019 Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, Anchorage, disasters, forest fires, wildfires

Calm winds are aiding firefighters as they continue to battle blazes throughout Southcentral. On Thursday, the McKinley Fire, between Willow

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Sealifted goods, tampons added to Canada’s Nutrition North subsidy program

22 August 201923 August 2019 Sara Frizzell, CBC News 0 Comments food, food security, Nutrition North, subsidies, transport

Nutrition North will begin subsidizing non-perishable food items and products like diapers when they are shipped via sealift to remote

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Dene, Métis end self-government talks in Canada’s Northwest Territories

22 August 2019 John Last, CBC News 0 Comments Dene, First Nations, indigenous, land claims, Metis, Northwest Territories, NWT, Tulita

Three land claim organizations in Tulita, N.W.T., have “unanimously” decided to end self-government negotiations with the federal government, according to

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Local firefighters first to fight southcentral Alaska wildfires

22 August 2019 Nathaniel Herz, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Alaska, Anchorage, disasters, forest fires, wildfires

Dozens of wildland firefighters have arrived from the Lower 48 this week to fight the McKinley fire south of Talkeetna.

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Major land use agreement to be signed in Yukon, northwestern Canada

22 August 2019 CBC News 0 Comments conservation, First Nations, indigenous, national parks, Peel watershed, Yukon

It has taken more than 15 years of consultations, protests, court battles and more consultations — and now a final

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New Indigenous protected area created in Northern Canada

21 August 201923 August 2019 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments conservation, Dene, First Nations, indigenous, Lutsel K'e, national parks, Northwest Territories, NWT, Thaidene Nene

A remote Indigenous community in Canada’s Northwest Territories is celebrating today the creation of a new Indigenous protected area that

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Northern Canada: Nunavut, Nunavik face major teacher shortages as school year begins

21 August 2019 Angela Hill, CBC News 0 Comments education, indigenous, Inuit, Nunavik, Nunavut

Teacher shortages are continuing across Nunavut and Nunavik for another year, with both regions continuing to hire even as schools

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Nordic PMs sign climate declaration at Iceland meeting

21 August 201923 August 2019 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments Angela Merkel, business, Germany, Katrin Jakobsdottir, Nordic CEO's for a Sustainable Future, Paris Climate Agreement, politics, SDG's, United Nations

A meeting of Nordic Prime Ministers ended in Reykjavik, Iceland on Tuesday with the signing of a joint declaration on

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US missiles: Finnish, Russian presidents call for dialogue at Helsinki meeting

21 August 201923 August 2019 Yle News 0 Comments defence, diplomacy, INF treaty, military, missiles, nuclear weapons, Sauli Niinistö, Vladimir Putin

Finnish President Sauli Niinistö has described as “worrying” US plans to locate mid-range missiles in Europe and called for dialogue

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Alaska wildfire evacuees begin to learn fate of their homes

21 August 2019 Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, disasters, forest fires, wildfires

When residents fled the worsening McKinley fire in southcentral Alaska on Saturday and Sunday, many left their homes not knowing

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Norilsk, Arctic Russia is world’s largest sulfur dioxide emissions hotspot: report

21 August 2019 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments air pollution, emissions, Greenpeace, NASA, Norilsk, Nornickel, sulfur dioxide

1.9 million tons of sulfur dioxide from the chimneys in Norilsk, a city in Arctic Russia, were blowing over the

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