Issues affecting circumpolar nations
Norway’s reluctance to allow military surveillance aircraft from other NATO members to use airports in the country while flying missions
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The Arctic Report Card will be released this year without support from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
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Iceland’s referendum on August 29 on whether to open accession talks with the European Union is only the first of
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Arctic storms that pass quickly, one after the other, cause about twice the reduction in sea ice cover as single
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Sending children and youth in care out of the territory has become a common occurrence in Nunavut, but the territorial
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Canada’s Arctic Archipelago saw some record-high temperatures in winter 2025, even as parts of north-central Canada were colder than average
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Greenland’s government says proposed drilling activities in eastern Greenland cannot go ahead during the 2026-2027 winter season, with an American
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Some fear Chinese icebreakers are deploying devices to track submarines, map subsea cable networks Both Canada and the U.S. have
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Canada has launched Operation NANOOK-QIMAAVIVUT, an Arctic defence exercise designed to test the military’s ability to move people and equipment
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The Danish defence minister and the Faroese foreign minister may differ on their characterizations of a recent meeting in the
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By Georgii Chentemirov Russia’s fuel crisis is disrupting daily life in Karelia, leaving tourism businesses stranded, hampering rescue operations, and threatening
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The shortage of menopause hormone therapy medications has meant that women in northern Sweden are crossing the Finnish border to
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Arctic islands are sometimes places where the world comes together, whether in the form of a Norwegian-Russian post office or
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By Sarah St-Pierre Worries linger about what comes when funding runs out at end of fiscal year Joanne Charney said
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There may have been fewer working-age residents in Iqaluit in 2025, but that didn’t ease the city’s housing squeeze, says
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