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Spring melt in Whitehorse could bring more landslides, geologist says

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 11:29
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The snow in Whitehorse has been steadily melting over the last week or so — and that’s got some people

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Canada RCI Science Science (Canada) 

What ancient earthquakes along the Denali fault in Yukon can tell us about what could come in Canada

CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 29, 2020 at 12:10 — Last Updated: Monday, June 29, 2020 at 12:11
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New findings of earthquake recurrence on the Denali Fault line in southwest Yukon are helping researchers get closer to pinpointing when

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Environment (Russia) General Russia Science 

Russian Navy maps large area of Arctic seabed

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 11:25 — Last Updated: Thursday, October 24, 2019 at 11:28
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Research vessels operated by Russia’s Northern Fleet have this summer mapped several thousand square kilometers of the Arctic shelf. A

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Rare geological formation near Yellowknife, Northern Canada almost gone

Walter Strong, CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at 14:56
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What’s 11,000 years old and likely almost all used up? The sandpits by the Yellowknife airport, in Northern Canada. For

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Business Business (Russia) General Russia 

Russia’s Gazprom cuts spending, creates subsidiary focused on geological survey

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, June 14, 2019 at 10:00
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The Russian natural gas company cuts investments in mineral exploration by 10 billion rubles and announces the establishment of a

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Finland General News Society Society (Finland) 

Diamond believed to be first-ever found in Arctic Finland

Yle News
Posted: Friday, February 8, 2019 at 11:26 — Last Updated: Friday, February 8, 2019 at 11:30
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What is thought to be the first diamond discovered in Lapland has been confirmed as such. German geologist Kasper von

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Canada General News Science Science (Canada) 

New map shows what Bering land bridge looked like 18,000 years ago

Karen McColl, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, January 31, 2019 at 09:34 — Last Updated: Friday, February 1, 2019 at 15:38
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Thousands of years ago, a stretch of land connected the continents of Asia and North America, in the place the

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Business Business (USA) General USA 

Mystery surrounds only oil well ever drilled in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 at 16:04 — Last Updated: Thursday, July 27, 2017 at 12:32
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With oil development advocates again emboldened by the prospects of cracking open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a big secret that

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Environment Environment (USA) General USA 

Alaska’s tiny, restless Bogoslof volcano erupts again – and researchers won’t be going there anytime soon

Michelle Theriault Boots, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at 14:12 — Last Updated: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at 14:14
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Alaska’s most active volcano, the tiny and tempestuous Bogoslof, erupted again over the weekend, the latest installation in a geologic

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Environment Environment (USA) General USA 

2 Alaska volcanoes erupt just hours apart

Chris Klint, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, May 18, 2017 at 15:23
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An eruption at Bogoslof volcano – one of two to erupt in the Aleutian Islands Tuesday – is its first

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Canada General Science Science (Canada) 

What ‘young’ Arctic rocks tell us about origins of the Earth and Moon

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Friday, March 3, 2017 at 16:14 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 11:03
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Volcanic rocks from the Canadian Arctic are changing what scientists think about the origins of the Earth and the Moon,

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Business (USA) General Science USA 

Scientists ‘cook’ oil from Alaska coal, suggesting exploration opportunities

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at 15:52
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A laboratory experiment that produced crude oil from bits of Alaska coal has geologists hoping coal-rich areas contain undiscovered pools of

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Business Business (Canada) Canada General 

187.7 carat diamond unearthed in Canada’s North

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 18:49 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 11:37
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The largest diamond ever found in Canada made its international debut at an exclusive preview at Kensington Palace in London

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Fort Knox gold mine core samples at the Geologic Materials Center in Eagle River. June 7, 2013. (Sean Doogan / Alaska Dispatch)
Society Society (USA) USA 

Alaska’s hardest-rocking library: Curating the past on behalf of the future

Sean Doogan, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 11:51
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Tucked away inside a little-known state repository are tens of thousands of boxes filled with rocks that chart the history

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