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Inuit hunters cut a hole in the sea ice to set up nets to catch fish and seals. Photo by Levon Sevunts.

Seal ban omitted from Canada-EU trade talks

CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 22, 2013 at 10:42
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The European Union’s ban on the import of seal products was not discussed as part of the free trade negotiations

Ville Niinistö co-chaired an informal discussion of forests and land usage in Warsaw. (Petteri Juuti / Yle)

Environment Environment (Finland) Finland

Finland minister downbeat on prospects for Warsaw climate breakthrough

Yle News
Posted: Friday, November 22, 2013 at 10:31
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Finnish Environment Minister Ville Niinistö is pessimistic about the prospects for concrete decisions at the UN climate talks in Warsaw

A drilling rig sit on Oooguruk Island off of the coast of Alaska's North Slope on 2007. (Steve Quinn / AP)

Business USA

ConocoPhillips’ next move west on Alaska’s North Slope may stir controversy

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, November 22, 2013 at 10:24
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Now that development is underway at what will be the North Slope’s westernmost oil field, ConocoPhillips is looking even farther

Society Society (Sweden) Special Features Sweden

Family of moose attack schoolboy in Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, November 22, 2013 at 09:55
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A nine-year-old boy got the fright of his young life when he was surrounded by a family of angry moose.

This Greenland shark was found beached in Norris Arm North, N.L. on Nov. 16. (Courtesy Derrick Chaulk / CBC.ca)

Denmark/Greenland Environment Environment (Denmark/Greenland)

Moose-eating Greenland shark rescued in Atlantic Canada

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 16:09
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Two quick-thinking men on Newfoundland’s northeast coast managed to save a Greenland shark from choking to death on a large

Business Finland

No crisis funding for Finnish mining company; restructuring to proceed

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 16:01
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The struggling Finnish mining company Talvivaara announced Thursday that stakeholders decided not to foot the 40 million-euro bill for a

Royal Dutch Shell's Kulluk drillship in the Beaufort Sea in fall 2012. (Royal Dutch Shell/Alaska Dispatch)

Environment Environment (USA) USA

Release of Interior’s Arctic standards for offshore oil development delayed

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 12:50
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Arctic-specific standards to guide offshore oil operations — rules crafted in response to Shell’s trouble-plagued 2012 drilling season — will

Environment Environment (Sweden) Special Features Sweden

Sweden: Medics call for ban on studded winter tyres

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 10:34
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Weather forecasters predicted snow in central Sweden Thursday, prompting the seasonal debate on the use of studded winter tyres and

The Auditor General's report focused specifically on the implementation of the Nunavut Education Act in six key areas: attendance, assessment, bilingual education, inclusive education, curriculum and parental involvement. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press)

Canada Society Society (Canada) Special Features

Auditor General: Nunavut, Canada won’t meet bilingual education goals

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 16:30
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When a made-in-Nunavut Education Act was passed by the legislative assembly in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut in 2008,

Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver was in London yesterday responding to a European Union fuel directive that paints Alberta's oilsands bitumen as much more highly polluting than conventional sources. Oliver says the oilsands represent 0.1 per cent of global emissions. (from CBC.ca)

Canada Environment Environment (Canada)

Canada’s climate change stance ‘de-motivating’ say critics

The Canadian Press
Posted: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 15:37
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Anyone wondering why Canada, with its minuscule global carbon footprint, attracts so much international ire from environmentalists these days should

Business Finland

Finnish mining company Talvivaara asks for debt secrecy

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 12:25
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The troubled Finnish mining firm Talvivaara wants to keep its debts secret. New documents filed at a district court as

Spill workers hose a beach down after a Corexit oil dispersant test in the wake of the Exxon Valdez spill. (Courtesy Alaska State Archives / Alaska Dispatch)

Environment Environment (USA) USA

Regional oil-spill response team considers looser dispersant policy in Alaska

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 11:10
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A large swath of marine waters off Alaska would be preauthorized for dispersant use, under a proposal being considered by

Society Society (Sweden) Sweden

Wild boar pack mounts road-rage attack in eastern Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 09:58
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Police in central Sweden got a call Tuesday night from a man who was surrounded by a pack of angry

To collect coralline algae, divers had to chisel it from the bottom of places such as the Labrador Sea in near-freezing water temperatures. (Nick Caloyianus/University of Toronto Mississauga)

Canada Environment Environment (Canada) Special Features

Missing sea ice data found in crusty Canadian algae

Emily Chung, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 17:05
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For the first time, scientists have been able to piece together how much sea ice covered the Arctic each winter

Norway Society Society (Norway)

Norway’s military intel chief admits to phone spying outside country

The Associated Press
Posted: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at 15:22
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Norway’s military intelligence chief said Tuesday his country carries out surveillance on millions of phone calls in conflict areas around