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Alaska's coastal villages want more involvement in shipping decisions that affect waters near their communities. (iStock)

Alaska: Cleanup for 6 Arctic legacy wells

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 14:11 — Last Updated: Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 16:47
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Cleanup work is scheduled to start this week on six of the legacy oil wells that were drilled and abandoned decades ago

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Introduce carbon tax on meat and flights say Swedish researchers

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, March 2, 2015 at 18:50 — Last Updated: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 16:47
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The amount of carbon dioxide emissions within Swedish borders has decreased, but the total amount of emissions caused by Swedish

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Sahtu Secretariat files lawsuit against feds over N.W.T. superboard

CBC News
Posted: Friday, February 27, 2015 at 15:45 — Last Updated: Monday, March 2, 2015 at 14:17
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Alleges changes to Resource Management Act interfere with land claim agreement, treaty rights The Sahtu Secretariat has filed a lawsuit

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Broken turbine in N.W.T. costs $40K/day in extra diesel

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 16:34 — Last Updated: Monday, March 2, 2015 at 14:08
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Problem at Snare Falls hydro plant will take 2 to 6 weeks to fix A broken turbine at the Snare

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Hay River fishers fined $4K for illegal harvesting

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 16:32 — Last Updated: Monday, March 2, 2015 at 14:08
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First time a fisher has had licence suspended in N.W.T.: DFO Two commercial fishers have been convicted by the N.W.T.

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$20M low water level fund to cover N.W.T. diesel power crisis: minister

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 16:29 — Last Updated: Monday, March 2, 2015 at 14:08
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Broken turbine at N.W.T.’s Snare Lake plant could take up to six weeks to repair A $20 million fund the

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Application for Russia’s Arctic shelf claim out on tender

Trude Pettersen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 16:07 — Last Updated: Monday, March 2, 2015 at 21:00
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Russia has announced a tender for preparation of documents to back its claim with the UN to expand the boundaries of its

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Massive oil spill outside Gothenburg, Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 20:12
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A large oil spill was discovered in Gothenburg, Sweden Wednesday afternoon. The emergency services and the coast guard are trying

Wind mills outside Umeå in Västerbotten, Sweden. (Thomas Nilsen/Barents Observer)

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City in North Sweden to approve 68 new windmills

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 16:47 — Last Updated: Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 20:54
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Sixty-eight new windmills soon to be approved near Skellefteå. In 2014, Europe installed more new wind energy capacity than gas

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Chemical contaminants suspect in mystery of Alaska chickadee beak deformities

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 16:32 — Last Updated: Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 20:54
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When black-capped chickadees and some other birds in the Anchorage area began turning up in the late 1990s with elongated, weirdly

Millie Hawley and Interior Secretary Sally Jewell walk down the main street in the Inupiat village of Kivalina, Alaska on Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. The village is threatened by coastal erosion of the long barrier island between the Chukchi Sea and a lagoon at the mouth of the Kivalina River. (Bill Roth / Alaska Dispatch News)

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U.S. interior secretary vows to work on solutions for climate-threatened Alaska village

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 13:39 — Last Updated: Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 20:54
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KIVALINA — In a whirlwind visit to Northwest Alaska on an unseasonably warm day, U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on

Will forest protection help protect elk from climate change in Sweden. (iStock)

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Climate change a threat to moose in Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, February 16, 2015 at 16:37 — Last Updated: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 16:50
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Rising temperatures are a threat to Sweden’s moose (or European elk) population, writes the newspaper Kvällsposten. If global warming continues,

A bald eagle sits perched on a tree near the Mendenhall Glacier on Sunday, Dec. 7, 2014, in Juneau, Alaska. How will climate change affect Alaska's future? (Becky Bohrer/AP)

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As Alaska warms, climate change awkward subject for lawmakers

APRN
Posted: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 21:57 — Last Updated: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 20:04
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The last time legislation specifically focused on climate change was in 2006. There have since been energy efficiency bills, and

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Yle: Police to probe Forssa waste disposal company

Yle News
Posted: Monday, February 9, 2015 at 16:59 — Last Updated: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 20:04
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Employees of the Forssa waste management company Envor have blown the whistle on the organisation’s operations, Yle’s investigative programme MOT

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Report warns more Arctic shipping will increase warming, affect health

Marc Montgomery, Radio Canada International
Posted: Friday, February 6, 2015 at 21:59 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 12:58
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A new report on air pollution from ships in the high Arctic warns of huge increases in air pollution from