Eight Swedish glaciers melted away: ‘It’s a very clear sign’
High-resolution satellite images show that eight glaciers in Sweden have melted away between 2023 and late summer 2024. The glaciers
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Environment
Receiver reports two contaminated water spills in one week at Yukon’s Eagle Mine
By Caitrin Pilkington Eagle Mine receiver PricewaterhouseCoopers reported two separate spills at the mine site this month, one submitted on Sept.
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Ship noise from possible Churchill port expansion could drive belugas away, experts fear
By Justin Fiacconi Displacement would be problem for ecotourism economy, Indigenous communities that depend on whales for food Proposals to
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Turbine producing no power as Kluane First Nation celebrates wind project anniversary
Chief says turbine a ‘huge achievement’ for his community, after more than a decade of work Kluane First Nation celebrated
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Lapland could see snow next week
Northern Finland is set for a chillier turn following an unusually warm start to September. The start of next week
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N.W.T. gov’t tells power companies to plan to increase use of renewable energy
The directive is for NTPC and Naka to increase the cap on renewable energy from 20 to 30 per cent
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Re-freezing the Arctic is costly and dangerous
By Elizaveta Vereykina Researchers warn against geoengineering in the polar regions. An international group of 42 researchers from 38 institutions conducted
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New research links Yukon summertime heat to climate change
By Julien Greene The warm temperatures Yukoners weathered over the summer were in large part driven by climate change, new research suggests. A
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Sweden and Finland urge revision of EU’s forestry climate targets
Sweden and Finland could suffer “dire” economic consequences if they are forced to harvest less forest in order to meet
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Plastic in Arctic Norway: “I feel irritated looking at this pile of rubbish”
By Elizaveta Vereykina A group of volunteers in northern Norway have raised the alarm about the amount of plastic waste in
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Routine maintenance at Whitehorse dam last fall ends with hundreds of dead fish
By Julien Greene Low water prompted ‘rapid dewatering of sensitive areas,’ consultant’s report states At least 761 fish died last
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Major floods cause train issues in northern Sweden
It may take weeks before trains roll along as normal along the coast of northern Sweden, which was hit with
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Nonprofit coordinating Arctic research in U.S. will shut down as federal funding dries up
By Eric Stone A nonprofit coordinating academic research on the Arctic plans to shut down as its federal funding dries up.
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N.W.T. requests help from elsewhere to battle wildfires
Whatì, Fort Providence under evacuation orders; Jean Marie River under evacuation alert The N.W.T. government has asked for help and
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Fort Providence, N.W.T., evacuation due to fast-moving wildfire expands as emergency personnel ordered out
A fast-moving wildfire that has led to evacuation orders in Fort Providence, N.W.T., was within one kilometre of the hamlet
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