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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland RCI 

Can climate adaptation be culturally sustainable in the Arctic?

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, June 23, 2020 at 08:52
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While ways of reindeer husbandry may be adaptable to the changing climate, intergenerational transmission of Indigenous knowledge can be negatively

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Geopolitics Geopolitics (Russia) Politics Russia 

78-years old former Russian navy captain, now professor on Arctic, accused of working for Chinese intelligence

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 13:24 — Last Updated: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 13:45
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It was February 11 and professor Valery Mitko was at sleep when the doorbell began to rang at seven o’clock

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RCI Science Science (USA) USA 

The ‘caribou of the Cretaceous’: study says Edmontosaurus once called the Arctic home

John Van Dusen, CBC News
Posted: Monday, May 18, 2020 at 11:55
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One of the most prolific dinosaurs known lived some 70 million years ago between Alberta and Colorado. It also called Alaska’s

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Denmark/Greenland Environment Environment (Denmark/Greenland) RCI 

COVID-19 delay, early ice melt challenge international Arctic science mission

The Associated Press
Posted: Friday, May 15, 2020 at 09:46
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They prepared for icy cold and trained to be on the watch for polar bears, but a pandemic just wasn’t

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Canada RCI Science Science (Canada) 

Arctic researchers prepare for a summer where they can’t travel to Canada’s North

Mackenzie Scott, CBC News
Posted: Monday, May 11, 2020 at 10:56 — Last Updated: Monday, May 11, 2020 at 11:03
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For the first time in about 15 years, Dustin Whalen will not be coming up to the Beaufort Delta region

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Canada General RCI Science Science (Canada) 

COVID-19: Arctic science expedition postpones flight campaign after trainee tests positive for virus

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 15:20 — Last Updated: Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 15:48
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An international Arctic science expedition was forced to postpone a key element of its operations after a participant training for

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Environment (Russia) Russia Science 

Russian icebreaker which resupplied MOSAiC expedition asks for help

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 at 12:37
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After having set historical record in winter ice, Russian icebreaker “Kapitan Dranitsyn” requests assistance for return voyage to mainland. The

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Environment Environment (Sweden) General Sweden 

Scientists fire rocket from Arctic Sweden into the heart of aurora borealis

Radio Sweden
Posted: Monday, February 24, 2020 at 11:15 — Last Updated: Monday, February 24, 2020 at 11:16
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After weeks of waiting for the perfect conditions, scientists were finally able to fire off a rocket early Thursday into

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Iceland Politics Politics (Iceland) RCI 

Iceland, Estonia talk Arctic at Tallinn meeting

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, February 20, 2020 at 15:53 — Last Updated: Thursday, February 20, 2020 at 15:55
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The foreign ministers of Iceland and Estonia met on Wednesday to talk everything from Nordic-Baltic relations to Arctic cooperation. “We

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General Science 

Finland needs its own space research centre, gov’t report says

Yle News
Posted: Monday, February 17, 2020 at 09:04
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Finland must increase its investments in the business and technologies of space, according to a report commissioned by the Prime

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Canada RCI Science Science (Canada) 

This greenhouse in a sea can in Arctic Canada is powered by wind and solar energy

Beth Brown, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 14:30
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In a sea can outside Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, there are rows of ripening cherry tomatoes working to grow from green

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Environment General 

Biosecurity an increasing concern in Arctic, Antarctic regions, experts warn

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 15:08 — Last Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 15:24
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As the climate warms, biosecurity issues will become an increasing concern for the polar regions says Kevin Hughes, a researcher

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Environment Environment (Norway) Norway 

The Tromso-winter in Arctic Norway now 17 days shorter than 30 years ago

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, January 9, 2020 at 09:04 — Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2020 at 17:17
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Kirkenes, on the coast to the Barents Sea, woke up to 2° Celsius and rain Wednesday. In Tromsø, Norway’s largest city

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Society 

Summer construction season begins at British research station in Antarctica

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, January 3, 2020 at 07:07 — Last Updated: Friday, January 3, 2020 at 08:31
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The summer construction season is underway at the British Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) Rothera Research Station in Antarctica, with a crew

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Canada Science Science (Canada) 

Earth’s north magnetic pole is heading for Russia at an unprecedented rate, scientists say

Mathiew Leiser, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Monday, December 23, 2019 at 17:14 — Last Updated: Monday, December 23, 2019 at 17:16
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The direction indicated by our compasses, the magnetic north pole, is not fixed, unlike the geographic north. In fact, it

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