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* Featured * Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 1 General News 

Arctic could be ice-free as early as 2030s says study

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 15:54 — Last Updated: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 16:11
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New modeling suggests that even under a low emissions scenario, the Arctic could experience ice-free Septembers as early as the

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 2 Finland General Politics Politics (Finland) 

Finland expels nine Russian diplomats

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 13:15
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The nine diplomats are working for Russian intelligence, according to a statement from the President of Finland. “Their actions are

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Society Society (Canada) 

Adeline Webber on being Yukon’s next commissioner

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 10:51
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Webber was appointed this week to serve 5-year term as territory’s next commissioner Adeline Webber was in Pelly Crossing, Yukon,

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* Featured * Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 General News 

Record-breaking heat in N.W.T., Nunavut, has “scary” implications for land users

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 08:57
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Délı̨nę, N.W.T. hunters cautioned from hunting on Great Bear Lake in May There are two words being used to describe

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Iceland) Featured • Zone 3 General Iceland News 

Iceland moving ahead on better ways to manage tourism & safeguard protected areas

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, June 5, 2023 at 16:28
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Iceland is examining ways to better manage the country’s projected areas, including highly touristed sites, and will focus on infrastructure

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General News Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

NATO scrambled to meet Russian bombers, aircraft north of carrier strike group

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, June 5, 2023 at 13:42
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The Russian sortie with at least nine aircraft flew to the western Barents Sea, but returned home instead of continuing

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* Featured * Business Business (USA) Featured • Zone 3 General USA 

Hilcorp fined again for deviating from permit at Milne Point

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Monday, June 5, 2023 at 10:16 — Last Updated: Monday, June 5, 2023 at 10:51
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A state regulatory agency has fined Hilcorp $267,000 for making unauthorized equipment changes at Milne Point, one of its North

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General News Society Society (Canada) 

Tension easing in Mayo, Yukon as opioid emergency declaration nears expiry

Chris MacIntyre, CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 5, 2023 at 08:50
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Declaration came on heels of double homicide that remains unsolved Tension in Mayo, Yukon is starting to ease months after

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* Featured * Environment Featured • Zone 3 General News 

Antarctic changes could become tipping points with global implications, says report

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, June 2, 2023 at 16:09
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Global warming is inciting dramatic changes in Antarctica, with potential for “irreversible and self-sustaining changes” to the continent’s ice sheet,

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General News Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

Belarus sends prime minister and military leaders to Murmansk

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, June 2, 2023 at 12:17
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At the same time as Moscow deployed nuclear weapons in Belarus, top delegations from Minsk arrived in the far northern

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Society Society (Canada) 

Yellowknife won’t host 2026 Arctic Winter Games, minister confirms

CBC News
Posted: Friday, June 2, 2023 at 10:34
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City was asked to host games earlier than planned, after Russia suspended from hosting The Northwest Territories won’t host the

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Norway Society Society (Norway) 

Norway truth commission details country’s dark history of assimilation

CBC News
Posted: Friday, June 2, 2023 at 09:24
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In an ornate assembly hall of the Storting, Norway’s parliament, Dagfinn Hoybraten, chair of the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission,

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Featured • Zone 3 General News Newsroom Picks • zone 1 Politics Politics (USA) USA 

U.S. set to open sole diplomatic post above Arctic Circle—Location? Tromso, Norway

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, June 1, 2023 at 16:07 — Last Updated: Thursday, June 1, 2023 at 16:39
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The U.S. will establish a diplomatic post in the Arctic Norwegian city of Tromso, something that will “deepen [U.S.] engagement

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Finland) Featured • Zone 2 Finland General 

Western Lapland chilled by Finland’s coldest-ever June temperature

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, June 1, 2023 at 12:39
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The municipality of Enontekiö in Finnish Lapland started summer with sub-zero temperatures. A weather station near Lapland’s Saana fell recorded

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* Featured * Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Society Society (USA) USA 

Sisters among missing boaters found in partially submerged vessel in Alaska: family

The Associated Press
Posted: Thursday, June 1, 2023 at 11:07
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By Becky Bohrer and Stefanie Dazio · The Associated Press  9-meter aluminum charter vessel was last seen near Sitka and later found near

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