Russian company Gazprom finds more gas than expected in future Arctic field
The Kruzenshternskoye field holds up to 2 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, the company says. The field that is
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Sami indigenous village wins historic land use case over Swedish state
The Supreme Court has granted a Sami association in the far north the sole right to manage small-game hunting on
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Northwestern Canadian First Nation asks N.W.T. to speak out against northern Alberta mine
The chief of Smith’s Landing First Nation near Fort Smith, , is calling on the territorial government to speak out
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New Delhi confirms Indian stake in Rosneft’s new Arctic oil project
The country’s energy minister makes clear that there will be Indian participation in the major Arctic oil project to be
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More shippers and shipping companies boycott Arctic sea routes, but it isn’t solving the problem, experts claim
Three of the world’s top five shipping companies and a growing number of consumer goods producers have promised to stay
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No take off for flight-shaming in northern Norway, but northern Sweden sees fall in air passengers
With 2019 being the year when ‘Flight shame’ was introduced as a social movement aimed at boycotting air travel to
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Finland nearly 1 degree warmer than usual in 2019
It was warmer and wetter last year than national averages, the Finnish Meteorological Institute reports. Temperatures in Finland last year
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Elder in Canada’s eastern Arctic remembers Inuit language weather words rarely used today
Tommy Tatatoapik says changes in lifestyle and use of English contribute to language loss Does the sky look a little
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Colder than average autumn in Finnish Lapland
Arctic Finland experienced a colder autumn than usual in 2019 according to statistics from the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI). In
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Northern Swedish airports get compensation for fall in travellers linked to climate change
The government will pay out 67 million SEK to make up for a drop in passengers airports in the north
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Arctic Canada: He takes down a Christmas tree with a rifle and ends up with a needleless one
Earlier this fall, when Nooks Lindell of Arviat, Nunavut, was building a new wooden sled to haul behind his snowmobile, he
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Norway’s Equinor to drill new Arctic well in Barents Sea
The company intends to add resources to its Johan Castberg project. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has approved Equinor’s well drilling
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Putin’s new Arctic law paves way for biggest ever industrialization in Northern Russia
Offshore oil, liquified natural gas and the petrochemical industry will soon benefit from big tax cuts in new Arctic projects.
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Russia’s top general indirectly confirms Arctic deployment of Kinzhal missile
MiG-31K fighter jets armed with the new Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missile based at Kola, Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya
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Finland ‘disappointed’ by COP25 failure
The US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement made a new deal more difficult, according to the Environment Minister. UN
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