Sweden to share more intel with Finland, NATO
Sweden will have more joint military exercises and share more intelligence with both Finland and the military alliance NATO, Defence
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Finns on fence about NATO
A new poll commissioned by the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle shows that 55 percent of Finns are opposed to NATO
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Arctic Council talks climate, COP21, suicide in North
An Arctic Council meeting wound up in Alaska on Friday with a focus on issues like climate adaptation, the marine environment and the suicide
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Emilie-Claire Barlow’s latest album began in Arctic
Emilie-Claire Barlow is releasing her 11th album, ‘Clear Day’, and a Canadian ice-breaker played a major role. The Toronto born-and-
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More Arctic research, intn’l cooperation needed
REYKJAVIK: The climatic changes taking place in the Arctic are a call to action for the world. We must answer
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NSR – Russia to focus on domestic projects
REYKJAVIK: Transit cargo between Europe and Asia is plummeting, but cargo to and from Russian ports along the Northern Sea
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Norwegian no-shows at Barents meeting
The Norwegians are known as staunch supporters of the Barents Cooperation. But they show a clearly fading engagement in the
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Blog: The Arctic Council’s Capacity Challenge
Last month the Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples’ Secretariat (IPS) put out a request for proposals (RFP) for the long-discussed funding
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Shipping, science and Shell: 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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Ice, shipping and the Northwest Passage
New findings from on-site research have found that ice in the Northwest passage can still be too thick and ice
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Russian oil company studies polar bears
State company Rosneft spends more than 120 million rubles on studies of the Russian polar bear. Company representative Pavel Rassadkin
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U.S. icebreaker reaches North Pole
At 7:47 a.m. Saturday, after 28 days at sea, a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker reached the North Pole, making it the
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Russia – Norway polar bear count nixed
Russian scientists are disappointed that a planned Norwegian-Russian polar bear inventory was cancelled because of lack of good will from
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Finland wants in on US icebreaker investment
The head of Finnish state-owned company Arctia Shipping points out that operating icebreakers is a more lucrative business than building
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Finland – Russia border control “considerably weakened”
The Finnish Border Guard says it’s concerned about the security along the eastern border with Russia, as budgetary cutbacks have
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