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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Iceland Politics Politics (Iceland) 

Climate, integration & Arctic among priorities in Iceland’s Nordic Council of Ministers program

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at 15:48 — Last Updated: Monday, June 19, 2023 at 15:51
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Supporting a green transition, ensuring a competitive Nordic region, and addressing climate challenges in Arctic communities will be among Iceland’s

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 General Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Norway ups climate ambitions…and boosts its fossil fuels

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, November 7, 2022 at 11:34
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Ahead of COP27 climate talks in Egypt, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre makes clear that national emissions will be cut

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Featured • Zone 3 Finland General News Newsroom Picks • zone 1 Politics (Finland) 

Russia high on agenda at Nordic Council meeting

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 at 14:17
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was high on the agenda as Nordic leaders were gathered in Helsinki on Tuesday.  “The Nordic

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Environment Featured • Zone 3 General News Newsroom Picks • zone 1 RCI 

Blog: Wildfires and ice – heatwaves put spotlight on the Arctic

Irene Quaile
Posted: Friday, July 29, 2022 at 15:14 — Last Updated: Friday, July 29, 2022 at 16:52
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Rarely have I heard the Arctic being mentioned so often in the media as in this hottest of summers. I

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* Newsroom Picks * Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) General News Newsroom Picks • zone 3 RCI 

In Canada’s north, environment-minded Pope gets climate change close-up

Thomson Reuters
Posted: Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 11:10 — Last Updated: Friday, July 29, 2022 at 16:57
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Pope Francis’s visit to Canada’s Arctic territory of Nunavut draws attention to a focal point for global climate change, with

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* Featured * Countries Featured • Zone 3 Finland General News Society Society (Finland) 

Greta Thunberg donates prize money to Finnish Sámi youth organisation

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 11:36
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The Finnish Sámi Youth (SSN) organisation said it was surprised by the news that Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg would

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* Featured * Countries Environment Environment (Sweden) Featured • Zone 3 General Sweden 

Sweden’s climate policies closer to reaching goals

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, March 31, 2022 at 09:23
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The outlook for Sweden to achieve its climate goals looks better now than it did a year ago, according to

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* Featured * Canada Countries Environment Environment (Canada) Featured • Zone 3 General News RCI 

Canada releases plan for a 40 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2030

John Paul Tasker, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 at 15:32
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Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault today released the government’s plan to dramatically curb greenhouse gas emissions over the next eight years

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* Featured * Canada Featured • Zone 3 General News Society Society (Canada) 

Northern Quebec communities concerned about impact of burning garbage on health, environment

Frédérik-Xavier Duhamel, CBC news
Posted: Monday, February 14, 2022 at 12:06
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In the village of Inukjuak on the northeast shore of the Hudson Bay, trash isn’t something that vanishes to some

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* Featured * Denmark/Greenland Environment Environment (Denmark/Greenland) Featured • Zone 3 General News 

Blog: Thawing permafrost: Arctic future on shaky ground bodes ill for the global climate

Irene Quaile
Posted: Friday, February 11, 2022 at 12:21
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When I first visited Greenland on a reporting trip in the summer of 2009, my first stop, like that of

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Countries Featured • Zone 3 General News Newsroom Picks • zone 1 Society Society (Sweden) Sweden 

UN experts call on Sweden to halt mining project on Indigenous Sami land

Mathiew Leiser, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 20:18 — Last Updated: Friday, February 11, 2022 at 10:54
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Two United Nations human rights experts urged the Swedish government on Thursday not to issue a license for an iron

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* Featured * Countries Environment Environment (Finland) Featured • Zone 3 Finland General News 

Finland unveils plan for electric aircraft routes across Lapland region

Yle News
Posted: Monday, February 7, 2022 at 11:40
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An experimental project operating out of Enontekiö Airport in the northwest corner of Finland is set to test the viability

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* Featured * Environment Environment (Russia) Featured • Zone 3 General News Russia 

New pipeline across Russian Arctic bay stirs environmental concerns

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, December 30, 2021 at 12:33
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A new underwater pipeline connection across the great Arctic bay opens for untapping of major natural gas resources in the

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Environment Environment (USA) Featured • Zone 3 General News Newsroom Picks • zone 3 RCI USA 

Could melting Arctic sea ice be responsible for U.S. wildfires?

Mathiew Leiser, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Wednesday, December 29, 2021 at 14:54
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Melting sea ice in the Arctic plays a significant role in the increase of wildfires in the United States, thousands

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* Featured * Business Business (Sweden) Featured • Zone 3 General News Sweden 

Europe’s first battery gigafactory starts production in northern Sweden

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, December 29, 2021 at 11:17
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Northvolt says last night’s assembling of the first battery cell marks a new chapter in European industrial history. “Today is

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Wide shot of the Centennial Flame with the Parliament building behind
The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

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In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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