Sami & indigenous film festival in Stockholm
Dellie maa, Sweden’s first indigenous film festival, arrived in Stockholm on Wednesday after two previous editions in Umeå and Tärnaby,
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Audi plans car-testing ice track in Arctic Alaska
Audi is eyeing an unusual, extreme place for its latest test track: Alaska’s North Slope. Starting in 2016, the German luxury carmaker
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Miserable snow conditions in Finland
With long-term forecasts now extending to late December, meteorologists at Finland’s public broadcaster Yle, say it is likely that sleigh
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New approach to sanitation in Alaska villages
BETHEL – Three state-backed teams working to bring running water to 3,300 rural Alaska homes are developing their own versions
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Paris climate talks enter last week
The UN climate talks in Paris are halfway and the civil servants have now handed over to the world’s climate
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Sámi activists speak out at Finland independence ball
Two Sámi guests at the Independence Day ball on Sunday sported the number “169” on their bodies in symbolic defiance
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Politics prompted hasty review of Shell’s Arctic play
Regulators hoping to avoid criticism and potential congressional backlash rushed an environmental review of offshore Arctic oil development to ensure that
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Historian’s book explores Northwest Passage history
In Victorian England, the exploration of the Arctic was somewhat akin to modern day efforts to explore the moon and
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Arctic psychiatrist gives tips for coping with SAD
Rovaniemi-based psychiatrist Antti Liikkanen lives in Finnish Lapland, where the sun goes down in late November and doesn’t come up
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Canadian homicide rates highest in North: report
Aboriginal residents made up nearly a quarter of Canada’s homicide victims in 2014 even though they make up only about
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The Arctic & COP21:Week in Review
On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this
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Q&A: What’s at stake for the Arctic at COP21?
All eyes are on the United Nations climate change conference (COP21) in Paris. As part of our Eye on the
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Small grizzlies dominate bigger polar bears: study
North Slope grizzly bears may be little, but when it comes to grabbing morsels of bowhead whale scraps, they are mighty
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Storm Helga weather warning for Sweden
The Swedish weather service SMHI has issued an official warning for high winds of up to 30 metres per second in the
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Finnish economy still faltering
The latest preliminary data from Statistics Finland indicates that GDP declined by half a percentage point from July to September
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