Iceland president says Arctic lacks ‘effective governance’; launches Arctic Circle
In a subtle swipe at the Arctic Council, Icelandic President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson criticized, “The Arctic has suffered from a lack
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EU court dismisses Inuit bid to overturn seal product ban
A European Union court has dismissed a Canadian application that sought to overturn a ban on seal products. The General
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Petition circulates against EU status at Arctic Council
A group of Canadian Inuit have launched a website to drum up support for the abolition of the European Union
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The Arctic Circle, Wayne Gretzky, and the Future of Arctic Cooperation
The big news in the Arctic this week came from Iceland’s President Grimsson, who announced at the National Press Club
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Discovering — and dining on — the mummies of the Far North
It seems there is a constant stream of well-preserved mummies coming out of Russia’s far north these days. Just weeks
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South Korea making bold moves in Arctic resource race
As the arctic warms, competition for northern resources has pushed likely players into action– Russia, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Greenland, Canada
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Search for Arctic shipwreck wraps up
The seabed scanning for the ships of Sir John Franklin’s 1845 Arctic expedition wraps up Wednesday after four weeks —slightly
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Arctic shipwreck artifacts ‘very exciting’ find for archeologists
While the marine search for Sir John Franklin’s lost ships has come up dry so far this summer, land-based sites
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Could Russian woolly mammoth mummy lead to cloning of the ancient beast?
The discovery of a well-preserved mammoth in the Russian Arctic has stirred conversation about the possibility of cloning a woolly
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Shipwreck search in Canadian Arctic turns up human remains
Surveying of Arctic sea floor will establish faster navigation route Searchers looking for the lost ships of Sir John Franklin’s
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Canada’s military drops Labrador supersonic training plan
Goose Bay airbase needs expensive repairs The Canadian military has withdrawn an application to conduct supersonic flight training in Labrador,
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Rocket launch from Sweden’s Arctic space centre this weekend
Scientists will send human blood into space from Sweden’s space centre, Esrange, in the Arctic community of Kiruna, this weekend. The idea is
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Alaska ice mission: Renda, Healy arrive in open water
The trans-ocean fuel mission that had never been done before and was successfully pulled off is nearing its end. A
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Facebook to build Arctic server farm in Sweden
Facebook is to build a new server farm on the edge of the Arctic Circle — its first outside the
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Canadian F-35s face communication problems in Arctic
Canada’s new multibillion-dollar stealth fighters are expected to arrive without the built-in capacity to communicate from the country’s most northerly
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