Winds cause flooding in Alaska village, prompts Shell to pause oil drilling
Huge, wind-whipped waves crashed onto the shore at Barrow on Thursday, forcing the closure of a nearby road, the National
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Obama, China & the North Pole: Arctic week in review
On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this
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Details emerge about Obama’s Arctic trip
Public officials and residents alike, from Anchorage to the 400-person village of Kivalina on the northwest coast, are watching and
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Guide sees record-long polar bear dive
A guide in Norway’s Svalbard Islands saw an emaciated polar bear stay underwater for a very long time to stalk
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Summer 2015 missing in Tarfala, Sweden
There was no Summer 2015 in Tarfala in the northern Swedish mountains. The Swedish weather service SMHI’s Sandra Andersson tells
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Canadian river carries carbon from thawing permafrost to sea
The mighty Mackenzie River, the largest northward-flowing river in North America and one of the main sources of freshwater flowing into
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White House video previews Obama’s Alaska visit
U.S. President Barack Obama will use his trip to Alaska later this month as the backdrop of a message to
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Distinct visions for Alaska port project
When Nome Mayor Denise Michels envisions the future of her city’s port, she sees some of the world’s largest cargo and cruise ships
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Arctic ice extent stays clear of record low
Arctic sea ice extent for the month of July was lopsided, scientists said Wednesday. While ice clogged waters in northeast
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Russians wrap up Arctic ice floe research
An icebreaker sailed from Murmansk yesterday to pick up 17 scientists who have spent four months on an ice floe
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One year anniversary of historic forest fire in Sweden
Friday is exactly one year after an enormous forest fire broke out in Västmanland in central Sweden. And since the fire, forestry companies
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Clinton has ‘doubts’ about Obama’s Arctic drilling policies
In an interview with a New Hampshire television station, U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton expressed doubts about President Barack Obama’s decision
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Iceland blasts Arctic Five for exclusion from fishing agreement
Iceland says the recent Arctic fishing moratorium, signed by the five Arctic coastal states without Iceland’s participation, is ‘unacceptable’ and
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Finland: Summer 2015 poised to be chilliest in 50 years
In Finland, this summer is set to go down in the history books as perhaps the coldest on record –
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Beaufort, Chukchi and Bering waves are getting bigger: study
Waves grew bigger and spaced farther apart as ice cover diminished in the Arctic and sub-Arctic waters off Alaska and western Canada,
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