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Communities wrestle with shark-bite mystery off Alaskan coast

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 at 15:31 — Last Updated: Friday, July 27, 2018 at 15:52
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Sometimes it’s seals with amputated flippers. Or even a sea lion snatched seemingly out of thin air. But for at

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Inuit leaders to advance Indigenous human rights

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Friday, July 20, 2018 at 13:58 — Last Updated: Friday, July 20, 2018 at 14:07
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Inuit delegates from the U.S. state of Alaska, the Russian region of Chukotka, Greenland and Canada concluded Thursday the 13th

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Inuit leaders meeting in Alaska seek greater voice in governance

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at 13:44 — Last Updated: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at 14:40
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As dozens of Inuit leaders from Greenland, Canada, the United States and Russia gather in Northern Alaska this week, they

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Utqiaġvik, Alaska to host 2018 Inuit Circumpolar Council assembly

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 13:15 — Last Updated: Friday, March 9, 2018 at 11:54
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The Arctic Alaskan city of Utqiaġvik will host the 2018 general assembly of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, the organization announced this week.

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Kotzebue brothers make first app for all 20 Alaska Native languages

Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Friday, November 18, 2016 at 13:45
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When Barrow officially changes its name back to Utqiaġvik on December 1st, people all over are going to encounter the

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Climate accelerating erosion at U.S. radar facilities in Arctic

Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Tuesday, July 5, 2016 at 18:17 — Last Updated: Tuesday, July 5, 2016 at 18:25
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A group of strategic Air Force radar facilities along Alaska’s North Slope are at an accelerated risk of degradation. Erosion

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Arctic Alaskan city posts record-early spring snowmelt

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 13:22
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The northernmost community in the United States posted its earliest snowmelt on record, federal scientists reported. The snow at the

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Ice-Blog: Record permafrost erosion in Alaska bodes ill for Arctic infrastructure

Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle
Posted: Monday, February 1, 2016 at 21:13 — Last Updated: Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 21:23
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Sitting in my office on the banks of the river Rhine, I am trying to imagine what would happen if

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Ice-Blog: Paris – A COP-out for Arctic Peoples?

Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle
Posted: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 14:43 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 16:37
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On a recent edition of DW’s Living Planet programme, Lakeidra Chavis reported on the effect of melting permafrost on indigenous

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Ice-Blog: Farewell to ‘Last Ice’ victims

Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle
Posted: Friday, November 6, 2015 at 16:25 — Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 16:38
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Ice Blog readers may remember the story of the two ice researchers and polar explorers who died when they broke

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Eroding Arctic coastline reveals human bones

Kamala Kelkar, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 14:32 — Last Updated: Friday, October 9, 2015 at 18:47
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As Arctic Ocean waves from summer and fall storms eat away at Barrow’s bluffs, they take land from the living — and

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ATV riders travel the Chukchi Sea beach in Barrow on Monday, June 27, 2011. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News)
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Unusual weather pattern brings record highs to Arctic Alaska

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, May 22, 2015 at 14:14 — Last Updated: Monday, May 25, 2015 at 13:28
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Temperatures have soared this week in Barrow, thanks to a high-pressure system parked over the Yukon Territory and British Columbia

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Ice-Blog: Arctic investment – still a hot prospect?

Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle
Posted: Monday, December 15, 2014 at 16:34 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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As I mentioned in the last post, I talked to various people about the current state of interest in the Arctic,

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Assistant district attorney Brian Sullivan, photographed in a Barrow courtroom on Nov. 12, 2013, was shot and killed in Barrow Monday night. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News)
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Assistant district attorney shot and killed in Arctic Alaska

Laurel Andrews, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 15:48 — Last Updated: Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 16:33
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An Alaska assistant district attorney who once was a Washington state lawmaker was shot and killed in the Arctic community of

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… And the ice continues to melt. (Irene Quaile, Greenland)
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Ice-Blog: Berlin Wall – Hope for Arctic?

Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle
Posted: Friday, November 14, 2014 at 17:02 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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The statement by  veteran Arctic researcher Peter Wadhams that the Arctic could be ice-free in summer as early as 2020

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