Life or death for newspapers in Canada’s North?
This October, the government in Canada’s Northwest Territories (N.W.T.) launched a new website advertising job openings. It’s a decision the publisher
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Rains force bears out of hibernation in Finland
Rainy weather has disrupted the winter slumbers of many bears in Finland this year. Particularly in south-eastern Finland, the rain
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Renowned Siberian ivory carvers turn to printmaking with help from Alaska, Canada
The Chukchi people of Uelen, a tiny village on the Russian side of the Bering Strait and the Russian mainland
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Lights out for Arctic town’s Christmas iceberg
A holiday tradition on the northern tip of Baffin Island in Canada’s High Arctic is no more. In recent years,
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Greenpeace activists leave Russia after Putin’s amnesty
Most of the 30 people arrested for a Greenpeace protest against Arctic oil drilling left Russia on Friday under an
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Your next snack: a bug from the Swedish forest?
Spiders, insects and other creepy crawlies can make healthy, cheap and climate-friendly meals, at least according to international organizations like
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Tardy students? Arctic Canadian town turns to emergency alarm
Normally used to alert the hamlet to an emergency, the siren in Kugluktuk, a community in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory
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Building dens for Finland’s Saimaa seals
A project to construct man-made dens for the endangered Saimaa seal will continue after recently receiving EU funding for the
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New study to examine mercury in Arctic
Mercury streaming into the atmosphere from industrial operations in southern latitudes poses risks to the Arctic ecosystem, scientists have long
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A gray Christmas for most of Sweden
Santa will have a hard time reaching Swedes’ homes by sled this year as Christmas Eve has turned out to
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Where Arctic camels once roamed, coal mining can wait
A coal exploration project proposing to tread the same ground as the ancient fossil forests on Nunavut’s Ellesmere Island has
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Photographer’s Finland images light up NASA website
Oulu, Finland resident Thomas Kast succeeded in capturing astounding images of pillars of light apparently descending from the sky. The
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Tiny Arctic town’s weather site approaches 1 millionth hit
An online weather page in the hamlet of Kimmirut, (pop. 460), located in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, is
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UN names Norway’s ex-PM and Ghana’s ex-president as climate envoys
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Ghana’s former president John Kufuor and Norway’s former prime minister Jens Stoltenberg to help
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Concern for elves holds up Iceland road project
In this land of fire and ice, where the fog-shrouded lava fields offer a spooky landscape in which anything might lurk, stories
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