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A fishing organization in Finland has been praised for its decision to not host the 2017 fly-fishing world championships in Northern Ostrobothnia, Finland. (iStock)

Fishermen receive environmental award for competition boycott in North Finland

Yle News
Posted: Monday, August 31, 2015 at 18:19 — Last Updated: Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at 20:31
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The Ympäristöavaus 2015 award has been given to the Finnish Federation for Recreational Fishing for its part in helping preserve

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Russian metal giant pays pocket fluff in pollution fines

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, August 31, 2015 at 15:40
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Penalty for peak pollution is equal to net profit from 4,7 seconds of operation. Norilsk-Nickel on Monday announces a net

A caribou in Baffin Island's south. A limited caribou harvest will be allowed this year. (Stephan Savoia/The Canadian Press)

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Nunavut allows limited caribou harvest after Baffin Island moratorium

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, August 28, 2015 at 19:05 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 12:21
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Caribou are an important food source for Inuit on Baffin Island in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut. But declining

A whalebone arch sits on the Barrow, Alaska shoreline. (Nicole Klauss / Kodiak Daily Mirror / AP)

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Winds cause flooding in Alaska village, prompts Shell to pause oil drilling

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, August 28, 2015 at 17:59 — Last Updated: Monday, August 31, 2015 at 20:06
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Huge, wind-whipped waves crashed onto the shore at Barrow on Thursday, forcing the closure of a nearby road, the National

Monitoring Sweden's 2,700 km long coastline for unfamiliar species is no easy task. That's why scientists have created an app so the public can help out. (Anton Eriksson/Sveriges Radio P4 Väst)

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New app for reporting invasive marine species in Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, August 28, 2015 at 14:45 — Last Updated: Monday, August 31, 2015 at 20:06
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Marine biologists from the University of Gothenburg have created an app which lets anyone with a smartphone send in pictures if they

Greenpeace's ice breaker 'Arctic Sunrise' enters its homeport in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on August 9, 2014, after returning from Murmansk, almost a year after it was seized by Russia during a protest against Arctic oil drilling. (Remko de Waal/AFP/Getty Images)

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Russia has to pay for Greenpeace arrest

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 13:05 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 18:51
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The detention of the “Arctic Sunrise” and the arrest of 30 eco-activists following the Greenpeace campaign in the Pechora Sea was illegal

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Peel Watershed case returns to Yukon court

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, August 21, 2015 at 16:05 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 12:21
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The Peel Watershed controversy is arguably one of the most watched, ongoing environmental stories in Canada. The Yukon Government wants

An official hot day in Finland is when the temperature reaches 25 degrees and it looks like Lapland may reach that today. (Yle)

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First ‘hot’ summer day in Finnish Lapland

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 15:29 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 20:32
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Now that schools are back in session and summer holidays have come to a halt for most people, the warm

Ojnare forest protest in Gotland. (Cristina Jardim Ribeiro/SR Gotland)

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Sweden close to decision on Gotland controversy

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 13:46 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 20:32
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Sweden’s government could be close to a decision on the controversial Ojnare forest on the Baltic island of Gotland, as the

This emaciated polar bear swam underwater for an unusually long time to try to catch a bearded seal. (Courtesy Rinie van Meurs)

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Guide sees record-long polar bear dive

Lynn Desjardins, Radio Canada International
Posted: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 19:30
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A guide in Norway’s Svalbard Islands saw an emaciated polar bear stay underwater for a very long time to stalk

A male polar bear in the Beaufort Sea in 2005. (Steven C. Amstrup/USGS/AP)

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Grim outlook for Arctic wildlife in oil spill

Kamala Kelkar, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 15:39 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 18:53
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In the event of a large oil spill in Alaska’s Arctic, officials say they would have limited ability to clean oiled

View over mountains in Kebnekaise National Park in Sweden. (iStock)

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Summer 2015 missing in Tarfala, Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 14:17 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 18:53
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There was no Summer 2015 in Tarfala in the northern Swedish mountains. The Swedish weather service SMHI’s Sandra Andersson tells

Radar stations are under construction in the Russian district of Vorkuta and in the Arctic Murmansk region. (iStock)

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Russian republics unite against oil spills

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 13:23 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 18:53
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Following a number of accidents, Russia’s Nenets and Komi regional authorities are taking joint action to preventing harm to vulnerable

The Mackenzie River Delta, in Northwest Territories, Canada, is shown. (Rick Bowmer/AP)

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Canadian river carries carbon from thawing permafrost to sea

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, August 14, 2015 at 15:12 — Last Updated: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 19:44
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The mighty Mackenzie River, the largest northward-flowing river in North America and one of the main sources of freshwater flowing into

The Umba River (pictured above) on the Kola Peninsula in Russia. An outbreak of the fungal infection Saprolegnia has affected salmon in several of the region's rivers. (iStock)

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Russian salmon infection no threat to Norway

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 18:52 — Last Updated: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 19:44
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But there is a clear need for better cooperation between the two countries’ aquaculture control authorities, they maintain. Norwegian experts