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The bodies of three people killed in the crash of a helicopter from the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Amundsen have been moved to Resolute, Nunavut. (Jacques Boissinot/Canadian Press)

Canadian icebreaker’s crew wants to find helicopter from fatal crash

CBC News
Posted: Friday, September 13, 2013 at 14:04
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The crew of the Canadian icebreaker Amundsen want to return to the site where the ship’s helicopter plunged into Arctic

Jan Vapaavuori is the former leader of the conservative National Coalition Party's parliamentary group. (Yle)

Business Finland

Finland’s decisions on Pyhäjoki nuclear project put off until spring

Yle News
Posted: Friday, September 13, 2013 at 13:11
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Any decisions on Finland’s planned third nuclear power plant, to be built near Raahe, will be put off until next

Last year the Erysipelas bacteria killed more than 100 muskox on Banks Island in the Arctic Ocean. (Peter Klaunzer/Associated Press)

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FEATURE INTERVIEW: Inuit community worried about muskox deaths in Canadian Arctic

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, September 13, 2013 at 11:24
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Several muskox were recently found dead on Banks Island in the Arctic region of Canada’s Northwest Territories. But some are

Nome, a gold gold rush community in Western Alaska, is betting big on geothermal in hopes of finally figuring out the riddle of high energy costs that plagues many off-the-road-system communities in the state.(Gabriel Bouys / AFP)

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Why are Alaska State Troopers mum about botched rescue?

Craig Medred, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Friday, September 13, 2013 at 09:37
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If not for the alertness of a Nome pilot, 81-year-old Carl Toshavik might have died on Safety Sound in

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Sweden to allow culling of wild wolves

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 11:38
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Sweden’s Minister of Environment Lena Ek is prepared to allow licensed hunts for wild wolves and other predators in

Dr. Eric Regehr monitors a polar bear during Chukchi Sea research in 2013. This is one of 68 bears that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sedated, studied, and released as part of the ongoing project. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.)

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Chukchi polar bear population remains healthy as ice coverage lessens

APRN
Posted: Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 11:25 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 13:26
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The Chukchi Sea has one of the highest rates of sea ice loss in the Arctic, but the polar bears

Quebec Premier Pauline Marois arrives in Kuujjuaq today for a meeting with Nunavik Inuit leaders. (Christine Muschi/Reuters)

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Canada: Quebec Premier Pauline Marois meets Nunavik Inuit leaders

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 10:12
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Quebec Premier Pauline Marois travels today to Nunavik, the Inuit self-governing region of northern Quebec, to meet with Inuit leaders.

Finnish border posts will need extra capacity if Russia and Finland agree a visa-free travel regime. (Juha Korhonen / Yle)

Business Finland

Visa-free Russian border ‘would create thousands of jobs’ in Finland

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 09:06
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A report out this week suggests that Finland could see thousands of new jobs if tourists from Russia are able

Ten people were killed when an airplane crashed just after takeoff in Soldotna. (Alaska Public Radio Network)

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Alaska: Despite fewer small plane crashes, 2013 yields more fatalities

APRN
Posted: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 14:47 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 13:37
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A rash of small plane crashes late this summer in Alaska has pushed the number of crash related fatalities past

Talks resumed Tuesday between Canadian North and the union representing some of its employees. (CBC)

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Talks continue between Canadian North and union

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 11:04
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Talks resumed Tuesday between Canadian North and the union representing some of its employees. About 160 ticket agents and cargo

A comprehensive four-year study of muskox in Northwest Alaska has already turned up a surprising result, with the animals being revealed as much more mobile than previously thought, belying their sedentary appearance. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch)

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Muskoxen on the move in Northwest Alaska

Ben Anderson, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 10:14
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In 2009, researchers attached 121 radio-tracking collars to adult female muskoxen in Northwest Alaska, part of an in-depth study intended

Kungstradgarden park in central Stockholm. Swedes are among the happiest people in the world. (Jessica Gow / Scanpix / AP)

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Swedes fifth happiest in world: UN survey

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 09:45
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Swedes are the world’s fifth most happy people according to the 2013 UN World Happiness Report. The Danes were the

Anders Jörle, Swedish Space Corporation.(Alexander Linder / Sveriges Radio )

Business Sweden

UPDATED: Esrange sets sights on satellite launches

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 09:38
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Sweden’s national space centre may have a future as Europe’s first satellite launch station. More than a thousand research

This map shows the location of the crash, about 600 kilometres west of Resolute, in the Northwest Passage north of Banks Island. (CBC)

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Remembering the victims of helicopter crash in Canadian Arctic

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at 09:29
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Canada’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) is investigating a tragic incident in which three men were killed Monday when the helicopter

Body Mass Index (BMI) is calculated by dividing a person's weight by the square of their height. (Anu Rummukainen / Yle)

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Finland the most overweight Nordic nation

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 15:03
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Unfortunately, Finns are the most overweight nation in the Nordics. Northern and Eastern Finland are home to the most heavyweights,