Musk ox invasion keeps wildlife managers busy in Alaskan city
Nome is used to rowdy residents, but some relatively new transplants are making a real nuisance of themselves — although
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Special Features
“Dumpcano” costs mounting in Canada’s eastern Arctic
They’re calling it the “dumpcano” a combination of dump (landfill) and volcano. In Canada’s far north the town of Iqaluit,
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Seismic testing approved over Inuit opposition in Canada’s eastern Arctic
Canada’s National Energy Board has approved a five-year plan for seismic detection of oil and gas reserves under the sea
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Blog: The Canadian Arctic Council Chairmanship – Lots of Leadership, No Followers
This week Canada surprised the Arctic Council by replacing its Chair of the Senior Arctic Officials, Patrick Borbey, halfway into
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Alaska military sites vulnerable to climate change
Several U.S. military sites are vulnerable to rising temperatures and seas as well as other impacts of climate change, and
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Blog: China-Russia gas deal creates Arctic winners and losers
The $400 billion, 30-year China-Russia gas deal signed in Shanghai on May 21 has sparked a lot of excitement about
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Canada to launch new search for Arctic shipwreck
Sixth time a charm? Canada recently announced that it will launch a new search for an Arctic shipwreck that remains
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WWF Finland concerned about oil leak in Baltic Sea
A decades-old shipwreck off the coast of Sweden has begun to leak oil into the Baltic Sea. Finnish environmentalists are
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Long-term warming inside Greenland’s ice sheet
In the mid-20th century, when Carl Benson was traveling Greenland gathering data he would use to write his Ph.D. thesis
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Sweden: Arctic hockey team to wear rainbow jerseys all season in support of LGBT rights in sport
Hockey players in Sweden’s Arctic city of Kiruna will be playing in rainbow colours next season in an outward show
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Cold stunts Finland’s berry crops
Farmers in Finland’s biggest strawberry-growing region, Suonenjoki, are asking migrant berry-pickers from Russian Karelia to hold off on their arrival
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Canada’s Arctic Council leadership gets mixed reviews
Canada is now just over one year into its two-year chairmanship of the Arctic Council. It assumed leadership of the
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Replanting the sea in Sweden
Environmental damage on land is usually visible, a powerful reminder. But there are serious problems out of sight on the sea
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Blog: Hamburg & the Northern Sea Route
The port city of Hamburg, Germany actually lies 130 kilometers inland from the North Sea. Despite this distance, it has
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Arctic plants to be studied in Nunavut
A team of botanists is headed next week to a remote area in the Canadian territory of Nunavut to try
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