Shipping, science and Shell: Arctic week in Review
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Russia: Tough times for Arctic oil region
Russia’s far northern Nenets Autonomous Okrug boosts debts to cope with a quickly growing deficit. The oil-rich region located along
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Ice, shipping and the Northwest Passage
New findings from on-site research have found that ice in the Northwest passage can still be too thick and ice
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Arctic no shipping rival to Suez: expert
As the ice retreats, Arctic shipping is expected to increase. But if your idea of “Arctic shipping” is cargo carriers
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Reinstilling pride in the Inuit seal hunt
This month, Inuit launched a new offensive in their battle against the EU seal ban. The 2009 EU law bans the
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Swedish wolves need more genetic diversity: study
A new report commissioned by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency says Sweden needs at least 300 wolves to maintain a
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Eroding Arctic coastline reveals human bones
As Arctic Ocean waves from summer and fall storms eat away at Barrow’s bluffs, they take land from the living — and
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Blog: Reindeer, oil at Energy Summit
Across the vast tundra of northern Eurasia, nomadic indigenous peoples have herded reindeer for thousands of years. From the Sami in
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Language lecturer voted Finland’s Sámi of the Year
Sámi language and culture lecturer Outi Länsman was named Finland’s first Sámi of the Year on Saturday at the Turku
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Myths about Shell’s Arctic Alaska pullout persist
When Royal Dutch Shell announced that it had lost its big-money bet in the Chukchi Sea and would end its entire program
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Moscow to set up Arctic media service
Russia will establish a major new media resource aimed at promoting Russian national interest in the Arctic. The new state-sponsored
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Sweden backs EU climate line for Paris
Sweden’s minister for the Environment Åsa Romson joined EU environmental ministers in Brussels last week ahead of the United Nations Climate
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Arctic Alaska oil lease auctions scheduled for November
U.S. state and federal agencies will hold jointly scheduled auctions to lease oil and gas tracts across Arctic Alaska next
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Indigenous rights & Shell’s Arctic saga: 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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Ice-Blog: “People power”, Shell and the Arctic
This week’s announcement that Shell is abandoning its controversial Arctic oil exploration for the “foreseeable future” provoked a wide spectrum
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