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Featured • Zone 3 Geopolitics Geopolitics (Norway) 

Suspicious sailing by Russian ships near Norwegian gas hub

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, November 28, 2024 at 11:59 — Last Updated: Thursday, November 28, 2024 at 12:36
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While a Russian reefer previously suspected of espionage requested emergency assistance off the coast of the Nyhamna gas processing and

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Environment (Finland) Environment (USA) Featured • Zone 2 

Snowless Finns suffer ‘eco-grief’

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, November 28, 2024 at 10:00
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The weather in Finland this autumn has been exceptional in many ways. While it was windy and rainy in Turku

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Business (USA) Environment Environment (USA) 

Main backer of proposed mineral exploration project near Haines, Alaska, pulls out

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, November 28, 2024 at 08:49
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By Julien Greene An Alaska Native tribe and conservationists say they’ve notched a win over a mineral exploration project near

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 2 General Newsroom Picks • zone 2 Society Society (Canada) 

ADK Holdings secures federal funding for geothermal initiative to cut diesel use

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Wednesday, November 27, 2024 at 15:59
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ADK Holdings Ltd., the economic development corporation of the Acho Dene Koe First Nation, is receiving over $2 million in

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

‘Who profits on hunger?’ Inuit send pleading emails to minister about food costs

The Canadian Press
Posted: Wednesday, November 27, 2024 at 15:19
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By Sarah Smellie Emails reveal people are concerned they aren’t getting the benefit of subsidies meant to keep food affordable

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UK targets oil tankers in bid to strike Kremlin’s war machine

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, November 27, 2024 at 12:01
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Several of the 30 tankers that this week were added to London’s sanction list have shipped Russian oil across the

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Canada Countries General News Society Society (Canada) 

Nearly half of Nunavut has been told to boil their water this year

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, November 27, 2024 at 10:07
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By Samuel Wat  With water quality strategy finalized, government says they have momentum to fix issues Nunavut is no stranger

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

Mining companies call on gov’ts to invest in N.W.T.’s ailing mineral sector

Sarah Krymalowski, CBC News @sarkrymalowski
Posted: Wednesday, November 27, 2024 at 09:16
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‘We’ve got a multi-billion dollar industry that’s now at risk,’ says former chamber of mines director At this year’s Yellowknife

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Sea ice at dusk in Clyde River, Nunavut. Photo Eilís Quinn.
* Featured * Environment Environment (Norway) Featured • Zone 3 General News Newsroom Picks • zone 1 Norway 

Study suggests dust is a hidden player in the Arctic’s changing climate

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 15:59 — Last Updated: Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 16:04
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Dust may play a bigger role in the warming Arctic than previously thought, said a team of scientists, raising questions

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

Tuberculosis outbreaks in 3 Nunavut communities still ongoing years later

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 12:44
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A tuberculosis outbreak was declared in Pangnirtung in 2021, Pond Inlet and Naujaat in 2023 An outbreak of tuberculosis in

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

Water levels starting to rise in some parts of N.W.T., but still very low

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 11:04 — Last Updated: Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 11:13
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Likely to take a few years for water levels to be back to normal, hydrologist says Water levels are still

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

Norway’s self-imposed military restrictions are out-dated, professor argues

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 10:02
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With Russia’s expansionist war a new security landscape has emerged also in the north, argues professor Njord Wegge. NATO’s new

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

Gwich’in green energy company focus of lawsuit filed in N.W.T. Supreme Court

Richard Gleeson, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 09:16
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Nihtat Gwich’in say company was created and operated without any oversight from board members Leaders of the Nihtat Gwich’in Council

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

Officials monitoring avian flu in mammals in the Canadian Arctic

CBC News
Posted: Monday, November 25, 2024 at 15:38
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By Samuel Wat Nunavut government says it relies on info from local hunters Wildlife officials tracking the spread of bird

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

Young people and seniors alike confused by language of N.W.T.’s draft climate plan

Liny Lamberink, CBC News @linylamberink
Posted: Monday, November 25, 2024 at 11:05
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Ecology North submitting feedback to territory as part of its consultation process Young people and seniors shared similar concerns about

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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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