Arctic MP named to federal cabinet in Canada
The newly-elected MP from Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut has been named minister of Fisheries and Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard.
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How did climate affect ancient wildlife in Arctic Alaska?
For about 1,000 years at the end of the last ice age, the woolly mammoths, steppe bison, ancient horses and
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Temperature record broken in Finland
A balmy 14.1 degrees Celsius was recorded in Vuosaari Harbour just before noon on Tuesday, according to the Finnish Meteorological
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Alaska to buy out TransCanada
The Alaska State Senate voted 16 to 3 on Tuesday, Nov. 3 to buy out TransCanada and take a larger stake
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Canadian Heritage minute spotlights Inuit artist
Canadians will soon know more about the late Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak and how her work influenced art coming from the
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Baltic Sea health shows improvement: researchers
The health of the highly-polluted Baltic Sea appears to be improving. Despite continuing periodic algae blooms and dead zones in
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U.S. Coast Guard wraps up busy Arctic season
DEADHORSE — Lt. Jason Evans was piloting a Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter over the oil fields of Alaska’s North Slope when
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Finland: Warm November start after dry October
Following one of the sunniest Octobers ever, November is off to an exceptionally mild start in southern and central Finland.
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Alaska exit plan for TransCanada?
As the legislature closes out the first week of its special session on the Alaska LNG gas line project, there’s
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Greenpeace activists divert Helsinki-bound coal ship
Early Sunday morning the environmental activist group Greenpeace managed to board and get a coal-carrying freighter on its way from
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New Arctic R&D center in Alaska
The Department of Homeland Security has launched a new research and development center in Alaska, looking to a future in which sophisticated algorithms
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Speed, politics & TransCanada: 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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Feature Interview: The politics of climate
As the dust settles after Canada’s marathon 78-day federal election campaign, post mortems are being done on the issues that did, and didn’t,
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Arctic nations sign coast guard agreement
Representatives of all eight circumpolar nations signed a historic deal on Friday committing their coast guards to cooperate and coordinate
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Finland: Health threat as wood heat gets popular?
Wood use has risen in the past decade, but officials warn that its emissions may cause hundreds of deaths annually.
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