Alaska gives go-ahead to hunt ice-stranded muskox
If an Alaska resident spots a musk ox floating on ice sea ice adjacent to a western Alaska game management
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Norwegian no-shows at Barents meeting
The Norwegians are known as staunch supporters of the Barents Cooperation. But they show a clearly fading engagement in the
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Blog: The Arctic Council’s Capacity Challenge
Last month the Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples’ Secretariat (IPS) put out a request for proposals (RFP) for the long-discussed funding
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IEA under-estimates renewable energy: expert
A professor at a Finnish University says that the International Energy Agency has consistently under-estimated the potential and future growth
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Police hunt for wild boar in Swedish city
Police in central Malmö, Sweden had an unusual call-out Tuesday night, to hunt for a wild boar which had been
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Microplastics found in waters off Svalbard
Microplastics, the tiny plastic particles that are accumulating in marine waters and big lakes around the world, are now showing
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Alaska first state to declare Indigenous Peoples Day
Alaska is now the first state to recognize the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day instead of Columbus
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Blog: The man with the mammoth bones
“It tastes like shoe leather. It’s good with ketchup, too.” That’s how John Reeves, a larger-than-life character in Alaska, described
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Norway app helps reaction to oil spills
How large the impact from an oil spill occurrence is, depends on how quickly the clean-up begins. While operational crews
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Finland: Rebranding ‘superfoods of the North’
For years, Finnish root vegetables and freshwater fish stood neglected in the grocery aisles, as younger generations ignored them because
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Sweden to study Russian wolf DNA
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency is launching a program to analyse the DNA of wolves in Finland and Russia, in
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Bellona Murmansk dissolved as Russian NGO
The environmental organization Bellona Murmansk was on Monday dissolved as a NGO after it was declared a «foreign agent» by
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Female whalers break ‘ice ceiling’ in Arctic Alaska
For thousands of years, when Inupiat whaling crews hunted bowhead whales, the harpooners were traditionally men — until this generation, which has
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Finland inspects Russian Arctic Brigade
The Finnish Defence Command is starting a three-day evaluation visit to Alakurtti, the base for Russia’s new Arctic special forces.
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Ice-Blog: Ice melt to motivate whizzkids?
When it comes to rousing young people’s interest in climate change, the Arctic and Antarctic seem to be a good
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