Safeguards in place, but still stranded: New details on efforts to free Thamesborg before freeze-up
On paper, the European shipping company that sent the Thamesborg cargo vessel through the Northwest Passage did everything right: the
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Experts react to N.W.T. rejecting idea of creating separate emergency planning agency
Creating a separate agency is best practice, but the reality of staffing it is a challenge, one expert says Emergency
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Finland pushes EU drone wall as northern countries’ security investments expand
As Arctic states continue to expand surveillance across the polar region, Europe’s northern flank is preparing its own response, with
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Yukon gov’t reviewing quartz licences, guidelines for mine waste management
By Gabrielle Plonka Officials say they’re following recommendations from independent review of Eagle mine failure The Yukon government says it
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Cambridge Bay’s population has outgrown its sewer, water services
Aopak Bella Angulalik’s home in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, runs out of water as often as every other day. On weekends the
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Blog—Arctic Security Conference: “We are already at war in the Arctic”
The work of Arctic conferences, as niche as they are, should be to reject rather than reproduce megalomaniacal discourses. At
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Eight Swedish glaciers melted away: ‘It’s a very clear sign’
High-resolution satellite images show that eight glaciers in Sweden have melted away between 2023 and late summer 2024. The glaciers
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German canoeist surprised to learn he was missing in the N.W.T.
By Tamara Merritt Inuvik RCMP declared Carsten Iwers missing, but he’d been in Yellowknife for days Carsten Iwers says he
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Transport Canada reduced to on-call Arctic summer surveillance: documents
Department faces aging aircraft, overtime limits and a lack of surveillance drones Transport Canada scaled back its summertime surveillance of
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Turbine producing no power as Kluane First Nation celebrates wind project anniversary
Chief says turbine a ‘huge achievement’ for his community, after more than a decade of work Kluane First Nation celebrated
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NunatuKavut art ceremony in N.L. legislature sparks criticism from Nunatsiavut, Innu Nation
By Sis’moqon Nunatukavut Community Council responds with letter calling on them to ‘end their defamatory actions’ Nunatukavut Community Council (NCC)
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Re-freezing the Arctic is costly and dangerous
By Elizaveta Vereykina Researchers warn against geoengineering in the polar regions. An international group of 42 researchers from 38 institutions conducted
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‘We’re losing our children’: Nunavummiut reflect on triple tragedy in Pond Inlet
By Samuel Wat The community was shaken by a multiple suicides in July WARNING: This story discusses suicide. Verna Strickland
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Plastic in Arctic Norway: “I feel irritated looking at this pile of rubbish”
By Elizaveta Vereykina A group of volunteers in northern Norway have raised the alarm about the amount of plastic waste in
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Carney appoints 11 members to Major Project Office’s Indigenous Advisory Council
By Joy SpearChief-Morris First Nations, Inuit and Métis members appointed to 2-year terms Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the members
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