Nunavut suicides reach record numbers
A record number of people took their own lives in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut in 2013, yet young
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Canada’s PM hails start of Arctic highway
Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper was in the Arctic community of Inuvik in Canada’s Northwest Territories (N.W.T.) on Wednesday to
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Danish shipper plans more Arctic trips
The company that made the first commercial transit of the Northwest Passage plans to increase its shipments through the legendary
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Blog: Canada, Russia and The North Pole
“We do not give up the North Pole. Canada’s claims to the North Pole are no more than ambition.” So
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Tardy students? Arctic Canadian town turns to emergency alarm
Normally used to alert the hamlet to an emergency, the siren in Kugluktuk, a community in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory
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Where Arctic camels once roamed, coal mining can wait
A coal exploration project proposing to tread the same ground as the ancient fossil forests on Nunavut’s Ellesmere Island has
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Photographer’s Finland images light up NASA website
Oulu, Finland resident Thomas Kast succeeded in capturing astounding images of pillars of light apparently descending from the sky. The
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Tiny Arctic town’s weather site approaches 1 millionth hit
An online weather page in the hamlet of Kimmirut, (pop. 460), located in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, is
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Concern for elves holds up Iceland road project
In this land of fire and ice, where the fog-shrouded lava fields offer a spooky landscape in which anything might lurk, stories
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BLOG: Potential rare earth element found in Arctic
I attended the American Geological Union (AGU) Fall Meeting this week in San Francisco. It’s billed as “the largest worldwide
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Canada’s woodland caribou still at risk
An environmental group says more needs to be done to prevent an iconic Canadian animal from going extinct. The Canadian
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ANALYSIS: Arctic ownership race about more than Santa and science
Canadian politicians can claim Santa Claus as a Canadian citizen if they want, but they’d be best to make him
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1959 message in a bottle found in Canada’s Arctic
It was a voice from the past, in one of the most remote areas on earth. In 1959, a young
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ANALYSIS: Race to claim High Arctic’s oil resources may be a fool’s mission
When asked earlier this week about extending Canada’s territorial claims in the Arctic, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird was clear
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Finland: 50 free Christmas trees – you just have to find them
For the third year in a row, Finland’s Forest Management Associations in the region of Pirkanmaa will be “hiding” Christmas
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