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Arctic hare breaks all records by travelling almost 400 km

Mathiew Leiser, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Monday, February 7, 2022 at 17:43
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Arctic hares are known to travel many kilometres daily, but one individual in Canada’s far north has stunned researchers. Dubbed

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Canada Society Society (Canada) 

More wolves killed since new government incentives in northwest Canada

Kate Kyle, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 16:49 — Last Updated: Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 17:35
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Dozens of wolves were killed by hunters under a new incentive program last year. But a biologist with the territorial

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Canada General Science Science (Canada) 

Fossil of world’s earliest fungus unearthed in Canadian Arctic

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Friday, May 24, 2019 at 10:48
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Scientists have unearthed fossilized fungi in the western Canadian Arctic dating back up to one billion years, nearly half a

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General 

Sanctuary expands for near-extinct seal in Finland

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 15:35 — Last Updated: Monday, February 8, 2016 at 17:48
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In eastern Finland’s lake district, a ban on fishing with nets, which can be deadly for endangered ringed seals, is

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Recent attacks on domestic animals in northern Sweden has led to politicians authorizing a protective hunt through August 20, 2015. (iStock)
Environment Environment (Sweden) General Sweden 

Sweden to study Russian wolf DNA

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 15:38 — Last Updated: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 13:48
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The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency is launching a program to analyse the DNA of wolves in Finland and Russia, in

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Monitoring Sweden's 2,700 km long coastline for unfamiliar species is no easy task. That's why scientists have created an app so the public can help out. (Anton Eriksson/Sveriges Radio P4 Väst)
Environment Environment (Sweden) General Sweden 

New app for reporting invasive marine species in Sweden

Radio Sweden
Posted: Friday, August 28, 2015 at 14:45 — Last Updated: Monday, August 31, 2015 at 20:06
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Marine biologists from the University of Gothenburg have created an app which lets anyone with a smartphone send in pictures if they

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(Tommi Parkkinen / Yle)
Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General 

Climate change brings new insect arrivals to Finland

Yle News
Posted: Monday, June 22, 2015 at 14:29 — Last Updated: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 15:39
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New insect species typically arrive in Finland via Russia’s Karelian Isthmus. Entomologists say that the number of species in the

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A fin whale in the Atlantic Ocean. (iStock)
Environment Environment (USA) General Special Features USA 

Endangered whales found dead in Alaska waters

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, June 19, 2015 at 13:55 — Last Updated: Monday, June 22, 2015 at 17:49
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At least nine fin whales have been found dead in recent weeks in southern Alaska waters, and researchers with the

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) 

Caribou numbers plummet in eastern Canada

Lynn Desjardins, Radio Canada International
Posted: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at 13:24
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Biologists are alarmed at the precipitous decline in the George River caribou population roaming the eastern provinces of Quebec, and

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Aerial image of the Western Arctic Caribou herd, 2011. (Jim Dau / Alaska Department of Fish and Game / Alaska Dispatch)
Environment Environment (USA) Special Features USA 

Alaska’s Western Arctic Caribou Herd numbers continue to slide

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 at 13:43
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North America’s largest caribou herd is continuing a decade-long population slide, a drop for which there is no easy explanation

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Anthrax probably killed more bison than surveyors counted, but their carcasses may be in wooded areas and weren't found by crews. (Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)
Canada Environment Environment (Canada) 

Bison herd in Canada’s N.W.T. half the size of last year’s

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 29, 2013 at 11:26
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A survey of bison in the Fort Providence area of Canada’s Northwest Territories estimates the population is less than half

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The plant samples from the glacier were sprinkled onto Petri dishes and stuck in a growth chamber. Eleven of them grew. (Catherine La Farge/University of Alberta)
Canada Environment 

Plants revived after 400 years in Arctic ice

The Canadian Press
Posted: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at 09:55
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Plants that managed to re-grow after centuries buried under Arctic glaciers could prove useful for would-be pioneers hoping to explore

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