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Snow print DNA analysis allows for innovative monitoring of polar bears

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, August 21, 2023 at 15:57 — Last Updated: Monday, August 21, 2023 at 16:01
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A team of researchers at the University of Idaho have found a way to scrape DNA from polar bear snow

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Climate change puts Arctic cod stocks under threat

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, August 18, 2023 at 15:50
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Rising temperatures are an increasing threat to Arctic cod and could have a major impact on the distribution of the

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Yellowknife begins evacuation as wildfires approach

Sara Minogue, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 17, 2023 at 09:31
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Low on data or power? Read a low-bandwidth version of this story here. For more stories, see our CBC North news website. Minister

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Northwest Territories evacuees relive their journeys out of wildfire danger

The Canadian Press
Posted: Wednesday, August 16, 2023 at 15:40
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‘Being evacuated two times in 24 hours is nothing like I have ever experienced’ After two evacuations and hundreds of

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Environment Environment (Finland) Featured • Zone 3 Finland General News 

Greatest number of hot days in July measured in Lapland

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Wednesday, August 16, 2023 at 14:46
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July statistics from the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) revealed that Kevo, Utsjoki in Lapland experienced the highest count of hot

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* Featured * Countries Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 2 General 

Wildfire threat to Yellowknife deemed serious as parts of city on evacuation alert

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 16, 2023 at 09:13
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By Luke Carroll, Liny Lamberink · CBC News Evacuation alert issued for Kam Lake, Grace Lake and the Engle Business District in Yellowknife

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Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 

Enterprise, N.W.T., ’90 per cent gone’ after wildfire ravages community

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 at 14:45 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 at 14:50
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What you need to know about the N.W.T. wildfires: Evacuation orders issued for communities of Hay River, Kátł’odeeche First Nation,

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Environment Environment (Canada) 

Local state of emergency declared for Yellowknife

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 at 09:43
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The City of Yellowknife has declared a local state of emergency due to a wildfire burning between Behchokǫ and Yellowknife.

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Environment Environment (Canada) 

Wildfire breach of control lines east of Yellowknife now ‘significant’

CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 14, 2023 at 16:03
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Fire officials in the N.W.T. are expecting “serious challenges” Monday battling the wildfires near Yellowknife, with strong winds expected to

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Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 

Wildfire burns structures south of Hay River, N.W.T., through Enterprise

CBC News
Posted: Monday, August 14, 2023 at 09:39
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The Town of Hay River says wildfires have burned property and structures in the area of Paradise Gardens south through

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

Indigenous leaders divided over ANWR court ruling

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 16:00 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 16:03
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The  U.S. District Court ruling upholding the Biden administration’s pause on oil and gas activities in an area of Alaska’s

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Cabins near Duncan Lake, N.W.T., at risk with wildfire burning nearby

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 14:41
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The fire has been burning since June 29 and 1 cabin was lost ‘several weeks ago’ N.W.T. Fire says “numerous”

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* Featured * Environment Featured • Zone 3 General 

Study warns of increasing extreme events in Antarctica

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 16:02
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The frequency and intensity of extreme events like ice loss and ocean heatwaves in Antarctica are expected to become more

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

Bursting ice dam in Alaska highlights risks of glacial flooding around the globe

The Associated Press
Posted: Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 12:00 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 12:01
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By Becky Bohrer, Mark Thiessen · The Associated Press  Glacial dam burst in Juneau, swelling levels of Mendenhall River to an unprecedented degree

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

Norway outlines powerful electrification of its North

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 09:05
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Major investments in renewables, new power lines and emission cuts are to set stage for an industrial revival of the

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