Sámi spokesperson urges respect for nature
Pekka Aikio, a long-term spokesman for the indigenous Sámi people of Finnish Lapland, implores everyone to respect nature in all
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Special Features
Food insecurity in Alaska
In the far north, where wild fish, game and plants are dietary staples and where store-bought foods are sometimes prohibitively expensive,
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Helsinki has priciest Xmas trees in Finland
An Yle survey of market square Christmas tree merchants shows that Helsinki, and especially central Helsinki, has the most expensive.
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How competitive is Alaska LNG?
This month, the state committed to another year of work on the Alaska LNG project. That’s the effort to bring
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Finland mine discharges 750M litres of waste water
A total of 750,000 cubic metres – the equivalent of 750 million litres – of waste water will be discharged
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Blog: Greenland pioneers Arctic tourism & mining
The world’s largest island has risen to the lofty ranks of Lonely Planet’s Top 10 countries to visit in 2016. This past October,
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For Alaskans in Paris, climate talks hit home
After two weeks of talks, representatives from around the world hammered out the final details of a global climate change agreement
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Mixed reactions in Finland to Paris climate accord
Nearly 200 world leaders celebrated an early Christmas in Paris Saturday after signing an unprecedented pact to limit global warming
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Positive reaction to climate deal in Sweden
The climate deal reached in Paris has been mostly welcomed by climate experts in Sweden. “It’s a historic moment but
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Sami & indigenous film festival in Stockholm
Dellie maa, Sweden’s first indigenous film festival, arrived in Stockholm on Wednesday after two previous editions in Umeå and Tärnaby,
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Audi plans car-testing ice track in Arctic Alaska
Audi is eyeing an unusual, extreme place for its latest test track: Alaska’s North Slope. Starting in 2016, the German luxury carmaker
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Paris climate talks enter last week
The UN climate talks in Paris are halfway and the civil servants have now handed over to the world’s climate
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Arctic psychiatrist gives tips for coping with SAD
Rovaniemi-based psychiatrist Antti Liikkanen lives in Finnish Lapland, where the sun goes down in late November and doesn’t come up
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Small grizzlies dominate bigger polar bears: study
North Slope grizzly bears may be little, but when it comes to grabbing morsels of bowhead whale scraps, they are mighty
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Ice-Blog: Can Paris avert threat to cryosphere?
To those of us who work on polar subjects, there is no question about the relevance of the cryosphere to
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