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

Emissions rise as Yukon gov’t adds more items to climate change to-do list

Chris Windeyer, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, December 21, 2023 at 16:05
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Yukoners produced 7 per cent more carbon in first year of plan to hit net-zero by 2050 Yukon’s emissions rose

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Communicating how climate change is impacting northern peoples, will be key to getting the world to fully understand the ramifications of Arctic environmental warming, say experts. , near the village of Toksook Bay, Alaska
* Featured * Environment Environment (USA) Featured • Zone 3 General USA 

Network in Alaska centering Indigenous knowledge in Arctic climate research

Kavitha George, Alaska Public Media @kavithamgeorge
Posted: Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at 11:50
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A network of Arctic observers spanning nearly all of Alaska’s northern coast is helping to center Indigenous knowledge in climate

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

Wildfire in Ibex Valley caused by people doing target practice: Yukon fire marshal

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at 09:31
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Investigators say fire that prompted evacuation alert in July was accidental, no charges to be laid A large wildfire that

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* Featured * Environment Featured • Zone 3 General News 

Blog: COP28 was bad news for the world’s ice & those whose future depends on it

Irene Quaile
Posted: Monday, December 18, 2023 at 16:26
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I went to Dubai for the UN Climate Conference COP28 with mixed feelings. On the one hand, the controversy over

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

Parliament tables new management plan for Canada’s northernmost national park

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Monday, December 18, 2023 at 14:59 — Last Updated: Monday, December 18, 2023 at 15:30
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Parliament tabled a new management plan for Canada’s northernmost national Park last week, with emphasis on Inuit knowledge being a

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

‘We need to maintain reliability’:Yukon Energy about microgeneration project pause

CBC News
Posted: Monday, December 18, 2023 at 10:42
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Yukon gov’t not accepting new applications to renewable energy rebate program for now Yukon Energy says it’s all for adding

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 General News Newsroom Picks • zone 2 

COP 28 “transitional, but not transformative” says Int’l Inuit org

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, December 15, 2023 at 15:50
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The agreement by nations to phase out fossil fuels was a promising step at COP28, but for Arctic Indigenous Peoples

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

Lapland gets pumped-storage hydropower in drive towards green transition

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 15:23
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Finland is working hard to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions. New wind farms and solar panels are part of the

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* Newsroom Picks * Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) News Newsroom Picks • zone 1 

Warming North pushing earth into “uncharted territory”: Arctic Report Card

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 at 13:23 — Last Updated: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 at 13:36
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From Canada’s worst wildfire season, to the warmest summer surface air temperature on record, the changing North is pushing the

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Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Yukon government under fire for pausing renewable energy rebate program

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 at 09:17
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By Ariana Kelland · CBC News ‘The program’s been a great success. And just to sort of put it on pause right now

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A file photo of a snow covered road in Helsinki, Finland. (AFP)
Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General News 

Lapland heading for possible -30 degrees Celsius this week

Yle News
Posted: Monday, December 11, 2023 at 15:49
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Poor driving conditions on slippery winter roads over the weekend in southern and eastern Finland will not improve until later

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

Norway sends another oil rig to its remote Arctic waters

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, December 8, 2023 at 11:54
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On the 8th day of the UN Climate Conference, COP28, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate approved a new round of oil

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Prey driven away by wildfire, YKDFN says wolves are turning to the city for food

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Wednesday, December 6, 2023 at 15:20
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Wolf sightings have been “persistent” around Yellowknife, Ndilǫ and Dettah recently — and a chief with the Yellowknives Dene First

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Environment Environment (Sweden) General Sweden 

Record number of golden eagle chicks on Gotland: ”The island is full”

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, December 6, 2023 at 12:33
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Record numbers of golden eagle chicks have hatched on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea this year. The

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Environment News 

UN agency cites worrying warming trend as COP28 summit grapples with climate change

The Associated Press
Posted: Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 13:48
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The United Nations weather agency is reporting that glaciers shrank more than ever from 2011 and 2020 and the Antarctic

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The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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