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* Featured * Business Business (Finland) Featured • Zone 3 Finland General 

Finnish Lapland saw biggest 2024 tourism increase

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, August 28, 2025 at 12:13
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Tourism revenue in Finland decreased last year compared to the previous year, according to a study by Visitory, a travel

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 1 General Politics Politics (USA) USA 

US reaffirms Greenland’s right to self-determination amid political sway allegations

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Thursday, August 28, 2025 at 11:18
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By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen The United States’ top diplomat in Denmark has reaffirmed Greenland’s right to determine its own future, following

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 2 General Society Society (Canada) 

Inuit innovators turn to AI to revitalize Inuktitut

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 28, 2025 at 09:10
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Iqaluit-based company hopes to make Inuktitut more accessible, but urges caution around data sovereignty The creators behind a new Inuktitut

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* Featured * Denmark/Greenland Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (Denmark/Greenland) 

Denmark and Greenland apologize for painful legacy of forced Inuit contraception

The Associated Press
Posted: Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 16:03 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 16:09
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Denmark and Greenland on Wednesday officially apologized for their roles in the historic mistreatment of Greenlandic Indigenous girls and women,

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

Russia submarines at sea as U.S. carrier group sails outside northern Norway

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 15:13 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 15:43
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As of August 25, the Yasen-class submarines Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk and Kazan are not present at the Nerpicha base in Zapadnaya Litsa. British media report about

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General Society Society (Canada) 

Canada’s biggest Arctic research entity is 10 years ‘young’

The Canadian Press
Posted: Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 13:32 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 14:40
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One of North America’s leading Arctic research entities just turned 10 years old. Or 10 years “young,” as one of

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

Russia declares a fishing ultimatum to Norway

The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 11:55
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By Denis Zagore Moscow threatens to close Russian waters to Norwegian fishing vessels if Oslo does not reconsider its sanctions against

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* Featured * Business Business (Canada) Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General 

Prime minister backs plans to redevelop northern Manitoba’s Port of Churchill

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 10:19
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Premier Wab Kinew says Mark Carney’s comments represent ‘an amazing opportunity’ for the province A list of upcoming federal government

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* Featured * Countries Denmark/Greenland Featured • Zone 3 General Politics Politics (Denmark/Greenland) 

Denmark summons top U.S. diplomat after reports of American influence operations in Greenland

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 09:20
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Public broadcaster report indicated 3 Americans with ties to Trump administration raised suspicion Denmark’s foreign minister has summoned the top

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* Featured * Business Business (USA) Countries Featured • Zone 3 General USA 

US, Russia discussed energy deals – including in Arctic – alongside Ukraine talks

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 15:46
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By Anna Hirtenstein and Marwa Rashad U.S. and Russian government officials discussed several energy deals on the sidelines of negotiations

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Russia) Featured • Zone 3 General News Russia 

Siberia’s 2020 heat wave left lasting impacts on Arctic, study finds

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 14:54 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 14:57
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The 2020 Siberian heat wave continued to leave its mark more than a year later, according to recent research.  The

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* Featured * Canada Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 General News 

Here’s how Yukon Energy hopes to reduce fish deaths at the Whitehorse dam

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 10:01
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By Isabella Calissi Company’s new licensing agreement for the dam requires improvements to fish safety Yukon Energy says it’s taking

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* Featured * Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 2 General 

Hot, dry conditions hamper efforts to fight some N.W.T. wildfires

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 09:11
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Evacuation notice, not an order, issued on Monday for community of Whatı̀ Hot, dry temperatures and unusual late-season lightning storms in

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 Finland General News Politics Politics (Finland) 

Sámi Parliament presses Finland to extend Truth and Reconciliation support services

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, August 25, 2025 at 16:16
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The Sámi Parliament in Finland is urging the government to keep the Sámi psychosocial support unit Uvjj – Uvjâ –

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* Featured * Canada Featured • Zone 3 General Society Society (Canada) 

Why are so few people charged for causing wildfires in the N.W.T.?

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Monday, August 25, 2025 at 13:41
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N.W.T. comes 2nd to Yukon for lowest rate of person-caused fires according to Canada-wide data N.W.T. Fire says it hasn’t

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The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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