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A polar bear mother and her two cubs walk along the shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Man. Students at Qarmartalik School in Resolute were told to stay home Monday due to the number of polar bears around the community. (The Canadian Press)

Resolute, Canada on alert for polar bears

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 10:14
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Students at Qarmartalik School in Resolute, a community in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, were told to stay home

The commission presented its report on Tuesday. (Nils Eklund/Sveriges Radio)

Norway Society Society (Norway)

Air traffic control was cause of Hercules crash in Sweden’s Arctic

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 09:28
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Swedish air controllers gave a Norwegian military plane the wrong information and caused it to crash into a mountain, concluded

What made Alaska's pachyrhinosaurus dinosaur, found on the North Slope, different than other species? It appears that horns, frills and brawn -- not brain power -- set it apart from the rest. (Courtesy Perot Museum of Science and Nature / Alaska Dispatch)

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Alaska’s Perot dinosaur had ‘wrong-way’ horns, study says

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, October 21, 2013 at 14:05
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Why is Alaska’s pachyrhinosaurus species different from all other pachyrhinosaurus species? Apparently, it comes down to what was on the

Tom Beaulieu defends the decision to close the facility. (CBC)

Canada Society Society (Canada)

Anger over addiction facility closure in Canada’s Northwest Territories

CBC News
Posted: Monday, October 21, 2013 at 13:59
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A decision to shutter the only addiction treatment facility in Canada’s Northwest Territories is being called into question. Earlier this

Fishermen and supporters listen to testimony during the fish trials of Yup'ik subsistence fishermen in Bethel in May of 2013. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch)

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COMMENTARY – Fuzzy math of Alaska subsistence: Too many people, not enough fish, game

Craig Medred, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Monday, October 21, 2013 at 09:53
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Alaska’s long, difficult, subsistence struggle was back before the Alaska Boards of Fish and Game last week with the many

Labour Minister Lauri Ihalainen in a Yle TV1 broadcast on Saturday. (Yle)

Business Finland

Finland lags in the Arctic, says Labour Minister

Yle News
Posted: Monday, October 21, 2013 at 09:36
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Finland’s Labour Minister Lauri Ihalainen told Yle on Saturday that Finland has lagged behind other northern nations in exploiting Arctic

The Kluchevskoy volcano on Oct. 19, 2013. All told, seven volcanoes were listed as “active or restless” on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and Northern Kuriles Islands on Sunday. (Courtesy Demyanchuk Yu, IVS FEB RAS, KVERT / Alaska Dispatch)

Environment Environment (Russia) Russia

Russian volcano erupts, prompts airspace warnings in Alaska’s Western Aleutians

Laurel Andrews, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, October 21, 2013 at 09:28
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Some of the most active volcanoes in the world were currently erupting on the Kamchatka Peninsula in southeast Russia

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Greens demand total ban on studded tires in Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, October 21, 2013 at 09:04
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The Green Party in Stockholm, Sweden wants a total ban on studded tires in the inner city, writes Swedish daily

Culture Denmark/Greenland

VIDEO: Interview with Aqqaluk Lynge

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, October 21, 2013 at 09:00
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Aqqaluk Lynge is a poet and the current chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council and the president of the ICC–

$Several dozen people attended the event to protest fracking in Yellowknife (Alyssa Mosher/CBC)$

Canada Society Society (Canada)

Fracking protests draw crowds in Northern Canada

CBC News
Posted: Monday, October 21, 2013 at 08:31
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Northerners joined a global protest movement against hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas, with events in Yellowknife and Whitehorse, Canada

A new study suggests smoking is on the decline in Finland. (Denis Charlet / AFP)

Finland Society Society (Finland)

Finns getting thinner and smoking less says study

Yle News
Posted: Friday, October 18, 2013 at 15:56
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A new study by the National Institute for Health and Welfare THL, indicates that Finland may be the first nation

View across Reykjavík in Iceland from Öskjuhlíd Hill. (Kirsty Wigglesworth, File / AP)

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Blog: Local vs Global – Dualism in Arctic Policy Development

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Friday, October 18, 2013 at 15:13 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 28, 2014 at 20:55
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For those readers who just arrived to this blog from a 1981 deLorean, the Arctic has in recent years become

An Arctic fox hunts in the Norwegian Arctic. (Gregory Tervel, AFP)

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Assessing Pan-Arctic Biodiversity for policy planners

Marc Montgomery, Radio Canada International
Posted: Friday, October 18, 2013 at 14:49
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In terms of flora and fauna, in order to know what to protect or how to protect it, one must

The dramatic reduction of Arctic sea ice witnessed from 2007 to 2012 is now considered by some scientists to be a "persistent and permanent feature of the summer Arctic environment." (Kathryn Hansen/NASA photo)

Environment Environment (USA) USA

Tipping point for polar ice cap may have come in 2012

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, October 18, 2013 at 11:39
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This year may have granted a slight reprieve for vanishing Arctic sea ice, but evidence gathered to date shows

The coke plant where the men are thtought to have drowned in tar.(SSAB / Radio Sweden)

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Two killed by tar spill at plant in North Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, October 18, 2013 at 10:24
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Two people were found dead on Thursday afternoon, after an industrial accident at a coke-oven plant in Luleå, a city