Just how sick is the Baltic Sea?
Scientists and experts from around the Baltic Sea are meeting in Stockholm to try to work out the best way
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Special Features
Fighting to protect bird habitat in North America’s boreal forest
Billions of birds are returning from the South to North American’s boreal forests where they’ll be nesting this spring. But
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Finnish Sámi join UN Forum on indigenous issues
The Thirteenth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues kicked off on Monday in New York City.
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Investigation into walrus disease closes with no culprit identified
An investigation into a mysterious disease afflicting Pacific walruses has been closed with no culprit identified, federal agencies said on
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Natural forces team up with human-caused warming to bake Greenland/Canadian Arctic:study
A portion of eastern Arctic Canada and neighboring Greenland has baked the past 30 years, heating up at a rate
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U.S.-Russia tensions create worries for Arctic scientists
For a week in June, about 20 Russian emergency-management experts and scientists and their U.S. counterparts were planning to tour
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National Nursing Week – Working in the Arctic
National Nursing Week kicks off in Canada on Monday, May 12 and runs until May 18. In honour of the
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Unique court in North Sweden could see hydropower stations closed
A unique court case in northern Sweden starting on Friday could decide the fate of many small waterpower stations. Government
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Ice-Blog: Greenland melt natural or man-made?
And does it ultimately make any difference? Scientists from the University of Washington (UW) have published a paper in Nature
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Arctic may not get that busy says U.S. report
As the ice goes out in the Arctic, many people predict more ships will be drawn through the Bering Strait
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Broad backing for climate protection law in Finland
A new survey indicates that nearly 80% of voters in Finland back proposed legislation aimed at massive cuts in emissions
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Alaska feels outsized effects of climate change, according to new national report
Climate changes bringing severe weather, floods, droughts and rising sea levels to the rest of the nation are accentuated in
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Ice-Blog: Will the Antarctic share the Arctic’s fate?
While the Arctic is melting twice as fast as the rest of the planet, and protests continue against the race
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Mouse menace on Alaska’s St-George Island
If house mice invade your remote Bering Sea island for the first time, who do you call? Try the mouse
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New strategy promotes hunting as cure to Nunavut hunger
A new strategy from the Nunavut Food Security Coalition says helping people hunt and share more caribou, seal and other
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