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Canada: Inuit Youth Summit begins on Thursday

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 20:18 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 12:25
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Canada’s National Inuit Youth Summit will kick off on Thursday in Iqaluit, the capital city of Canada’s eastern Arctic territory

Radar stations are under construction in the Russian district of Vorkuta and in the Arctic Murmansk region. (iStock)

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Barents Russia gets new missile radars

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 15:51 — Last Updated: Friday, August 21, 2015 at 21:14
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Will be built east of the secret town of Olenogorsk-1 on the Kola Peninsula and outside Pechora in the Komi

Democratic presidential candidate and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton answers questions from members of the media following a campaign stop in North Las Vegas, Nevada on Tuesday. (Isaac Brekken/Getty Images)

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Clinton tweets opposition to Arctic drilling

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 13:39 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 20:43
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Hillary Clinton used Twitter on Tuesday to declare her opposition to Arctic offshore drilling, and her brief statement was applauded by

Wind turbines are covering increasingly bigger lands in northern Finland. (Thomas Nilsen/Barents Observer)

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Wind power growing most in North Finland

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 13:05 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 20:43
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Northern Finland moves with the winds, outpaces neighboring Nordic regions in wind power generation. Figures assembled by Patchwork Barents show that the

The Chinese cargo ship Yong Sheng (pictured here in Sri Lanka). ( Sanka Vidanagama / AFP)

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Chinese company mulls more Arctic shipping

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 18:26 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 20:43
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As one of its cargo ships arrives in Sweden after the transcontinental voyage, shipping company Cosco says it might boost

An official hot day in Finland is when the temperature reaches 25 degrees and it looks like Lapland may reach that today. (Yle)

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First ‘hot’ summer day in Finnish Lapland

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 15:29 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 20:32
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Now that schools are back in session and summer holidays have come to a halt for most people, the warm

Ojnare forest protest in Gotland. (Cristina Jardim Ribeiro/SR Gotland)

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Sweden close to decision on Gotland controversy

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Posted: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 13:46 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 20:32
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Sweden’s government could be close to a decision on the controversial Ojnare forest on the Baltic island of Gotland, as the

The oil drilling rig Polar Pioneer in a dock in Seattle in May 2015. The rig is the first of two drilling rigs Royal Dutch Shell has outfitting for Arctic oil exploration. (Elaine Thompson/File/AP)

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Shell gets drilling go-ahead in Chukchi

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 13:21 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 20:32
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Royal Dutch Shell won permission on Monday to start deep drilling at a Chukchi Sea exploration well, opening the way for the

This emaciated polar bear swam underwater for an unusually long time to try to catch a bearded seal. (Courtesy Rinie van Meurs)

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Guide sees record-long polar bear dive

Lynn Desjardins, Radio Canada International
Posted: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 19:30
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A guide in Norway’s Svalbard Islands saw an emaciated polar bear stay underwater for a very long time to stalk

A male polar bear in the Beaufort Sea in 2005. (Steven C. Amstrup/USGS/AP)

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Grim outlook for Arctic wildlife in oil spill

Kamala Kelkar, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 15:39 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 18:53
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In the event of a large oil spill in Alaska’s Arctic, officials say they would have limited ability to clean oiled

View over mountains in Kebnekaise National Park in Sweden. (iStock)

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Summer 2015 missing in Tarfala, Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 14:17 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 18:53
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There was no Summer 2015 in Tarfala in the northern Swedish mountains. The Swedish weather service SMHI’s Sandra Andersson tells

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Russian republics unite against oil spills

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 13:23 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 18:53
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Following a number of accidents, Russia’s Nenets and Komi regional authorities are taking joint action to preventing harm to vulnerable

A story looking at the complexity of polar bear hair and what that knowledge could contribute to design were among your most read stories this week. (Mathieu Belanger/Reuters)

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Sanctions, Sami and polar bear hair: Arctic week in review

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, August 14, 2015 at 19:55
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On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this

Former Chief Executive of British Petroleum Lord Browne leaves BP headquarters in 2007. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Image)

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Former BP chief exec warns Shell about Arctic drilling

Kamala Kelkar, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, August 14, 2015 at 15:26 — Last Updated: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 19:44
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The former chief executive of BP, who headed the company during a spate of nasty disasters including the biggest ever pipeline

The Mackenzie River Delta, in Northwest Territories, Canada, is shown. (Rick Bowmer/AP)

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Canadian river carries carbon from thawing permafrost to sea

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, August 14, 2015 at 15:12 — Last Updated: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 19:44
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The mighty Mackenzie River, the largest northward-flowing river in North America and one of the main sources of freshwater flowing into