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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

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

Scientists have unearthed fossilized fungi in the western Canadian Arctic dating back up to one billion years, nearly half a

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

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

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

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

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

Biologists are alarmed at the precipitous decline in the George River caribou population roaming the eastern provinces of Quebec, and

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

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

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