Finland logs warmest March on record, including in the North
Weather stations across Finland recorded record March temperatures, with one Arctic site logging its warmest reading in 100 years. The
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Environment
Sweden’s biggest carbon-capture bet moving ahead while others hit pause
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is a necessary component for meeting global climate change goals. Now Stockholm Exergi’s bio-CCS
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Q & A | N.W.T. adding 5th rating to fire danger level ahead of wildfire season
‘There’s a move across all agencies in the country for us to be consistent,’ says wildfire official The Northwest Territories
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Commission issues recommended land use plan for Yukon’s vast Dawson region
Final plan will determine how roughly 10 per cent of Yukon’s land mass should be managed in future A proposed
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Yukon First Nation declares caribou herd to be ‘living ecological person’
By Chloé Dioré de Périgny, Francis Tessier-Burns The Ross River Dena Council says the decision is meant to protect caribou
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N.W.T. water needs greater protection as Alberta merges major river basins, says MLA
An N.W.T. MLA says the territory needs to fiercely protect treaty rights and territorial waters, amid Alberta’s merger of two
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N.W.T. winter one of the coldest recorded this century, climatologist says
Freezing temperatures in the N.W.T. this winter have made it one of the coldest winters recorded this century and a
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Some Yukoners say this winter has been unusually cold and snowy
Whitehorse experienced its wettest winter on record this season with more than two-and-a-half times as much precipitation as the seasonal
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Alaska Natives welcome new state limits to protect chum salmon
The Alaska Board of Fisheries is cutting chum salmon fishing by 30 per cent in southwest Alaska. Alaskan Native communities,
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Indigenous governments in N.W.T. get $21M in first round of conservation funding
By Saloni Bhugra Money part of larger $375M federal and private fund to be distributed over 10 years Indigenous governments
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Lapland experiences coldest January in 40 years
Finland’s Arctic experienced a dry, freezing January that stood out for its freezing—even for winter—temperatures in most areas, except for
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Swedish research shows storms can help slow down global warming
New research at Gothenburg University shows that storms over the Antarctic Ocean can actually help slow down global warming. The
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Blog—Trump’s distraction from the real Greenland problem
Heard any news about Greenland recently? A stupid question these days, since Donald Trump openly set his sights on the
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U.S. gov’t one step closer to expanding oil and gas leases in ANWR
By Tori Fitzpatrick Vuntut Gwitchin and CPAWS Yukon denounce call for nominations for Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program
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Traditional knowledge can help limit exposure to contaminants, researcher says
Traditional knowledge and harvesting practices may help limit the buildup of contaminants such as mercury in people who live in
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