Summer tourism recovery is slow going in Sweden
The number of Swedes enjoying a vacation in their own country has been a shot in the arm for the
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‘Into the Wild’ bus likely lands a home at Fairbanks museum
An infamous bus appears to be headed to a new home at a museum in Fairbanks after being removed from Alaska’s backcountry
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Campaign underway to name Ottawa park after renowned Canadian Inuk artist
An Ottawa woman is campaigning to have a park in Sandy Hill named after internationally renowned Inuk artist Annie Pootoogook.
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Canada’s Green Party leadership candidates debate food security and the North’s economy
The nine candidates vying to replace Elizabeth May as the leader of the Green Party held their fourth leadership debate on Monday
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Canada’s Arctic territory releases its school reopening plan
If Nunavut continues to have no cases of COVID-19, schools are set to open with no physical distancing requirements this upcoming school
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ICE BLOG – Not “if” but “when”: Polar bears at risk of disappearing in 80 years
Rapid emissions cuts could still ensure their long-term survival. Otherwise, some Arctic regions seem set to lose polar bears by
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Canadian First Nation waiting to flip the switch on new solar array in Yukon
Building a solar farm 127 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle is a challenge; building an array of solar panels
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Canadian Inuit leader reflects on report of CFL team changing name
Natan Obed doesn’t feel that he, himself, made the Edmonton football team change its name. But the national Inuit leader — whose 2015 op-ed in
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Indigenous groups paying the price for Russia’s massive Arctic fuel spill
In 2017, the New York Times called Norilsk “Russia’s coldest and most polluted industrial city.” It may not be getting colder but
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Inuit TV coming to Northern Canada from new Inuktut-language broadcaster
Nunavut is getting a new all-Inuktut TV channel this year. Inuit TV will have Inuktut programming in dialects from all Inuit
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Canadian Northwest Territories ends state of emergency for 1st time during COVID-19 pandemic
The Northwest Territories government has decided it will no longer extend its state of emergency for the first time since
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Russian village gets evacuation advise ahead of missile launch, scheduled July 7
It is the city administration in nearby Severodvinsk that posted the warning on its portal. «From 6:00 on July 7 to 18:00
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Meet 3 Indigenous health-care workers helping keep Canadian Northern communities safe
Through the month of June CBC Indigenous has been sharing stories from Indigenous health-care workers across the country about their
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Cotton fibres, microplastics pervade Eastern Arctic, study finds
Chelsea Rochman wasn’t surprised when her research cruise through Canada’s Eastern Arctic showed tiny plastic shards and other human debris
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Good results from blood plasma corona treatment in Sweden
Swedish researchers report good progress with a corona treatment that uses blood plasma from people who have survived the illness
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