U.S. Coast Guard turns to Canada for help with designing its new heavy icebreaker
With growing concerns over its apparent “icebreaker gap” with Russia and an urgent need to replace its only operational heavy
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Finland to headquarter Europe’s new atmospheric research center
Finland will become the new headquarters of ACTRIS, the European Aerosol, Clouds, and Trace gases Research Infrastructure, the Finnish Meteorological
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Scientists in Sweden help Indian farmers with artificial glaciers
Researchers in Sweden are providing their expertise in snow and ice to help farmers in a remote part of northern
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Ignoring Indigenous women’s traditional knowledge hurts Arctic science, G7 summit hears
Indigenous women’s traditional knowledge is too often excluded from scientific research in the North, something that could have serious implications
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Out-dated attitudes, deficient infrastructure, block Inuit from Arctic science, G7 summit hears
Inuit are ready to work with southern scientists on the big climate and scientific questions facing the planet, but need
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Finnish chemistry professor develops “revolutionary” biofuel
A professor at Turku’s Åbo Akademi and Sweden’s Umeå University says he has managed to develop a fuel based entirely
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Researchers identify ideal temperatures for Finns
The unseasonal warmth is on the lips of anyone who has lived in Finland long enough to realise that the
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Weak ice prompts Russia to launch mega research platform in Arctic
As vanishing Arctic ice makes it increasingly difficult to uphold research activities in the highest Arctic, Russia moves ahead with
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Mixing science with traditional knowledge, researchers hope to get seal oil on the menu in Alaska
There’s a traditional foods movement happening in Alaska. Dieticians, administrators, and others are trying to get more wild foods like
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Driverless buses hit the streets in Stockholm
For the first time in Scandinavia, a self-driving bus will mix with other traffic along a public road in Kista,
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Arctic rocks yield answers to billion-year-old mystery
A billion-year-old fossilized algae found in sediment rock deposits in the Canadian Arctic is believed to be the oldest known
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Meteor fragments fall in Vätsäri Wilderness Area in Arctic Finland
According to the Ursa Astronomical Association, the massive fireball spotted in Lapland last week was a meteor that fell into
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Alaska university names economics lab after Nobel laureate Vernon Smith
Nobel laureate economist Vernon Smith spent three years at the University of Alaska Anchorage late in his career, and UAA
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Canadian researchers now tracking wildfire warning signs with satellites
Researchers at the Canadian University of British Columbia have come up with a new way to predict when and where
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Ocean acidification could doom key Arctic fish species: study
Ocean acidification combined with warming of the world oceans and loss of oxygen is having a severe impact on key
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