Bear ‘invasion’ in Arctic Russia: media too quick to blame climate change, experts say
Photos and videos of the more than fifty polar bears walking around the houses in Belushaya Guba have gone viral
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Arctic-based news site launches Chinese-language section
Eye on the Arctic editor’s note: The Independent Barents Observer is part of the Eye on the Arctic circumpolar news partnership.
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Blog – 2018: Recapping the year in the Arctic
Planet Earth has completed another rotation around the sun, which has now set on the Arctic for the next three
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Blog – How should we measure Arctic identity?
An intriguing survey on Arctic issues was published earlier this month by The Arctic Studio, a research organization based in
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Moscow-based media pretends to bring “objective” environmental journalism to Barents region
The head of the ecological monitoring and consulting group POMOR, Timofey Surovtsev, wants to counter Norwegian media’s negative reporting on
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‘Treasure trove’ of Native Press photos donated to territorial archives in Northern Canada
The Native Communications Society has donated 200,000 Native Press images to the Northwest Territories (N.W.T.) government, to be preserved and
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Bill would allow Russia to tag journalists as “foreign agents”
It is another crackdown on the Russian media, and it will make it even harder for Russian journalists to engage
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Russian Supreme Court upholds FSB ban on Barents Observer Editor Thomas Nilsen
Eye on the Arctic editor’s note: The Independent Barents Observer is part of the Eye on the Arctic circumpolar news partnership.
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Russia lashes out at Norwegian NGO over “russophobic” World Cup handbook
A guidebook for journalists issued by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee in connection with the upcoming Football World Cup is a
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Press Freedom Index: Finland slides again, Norway stays ahead
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published its annual Press Freedom Index on Thursday, placing Finland in fourth position. It’s the second
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Fishing diplomacy, rethinking China & how Twitter is improving northern news : 2017 Arctic Year in Review
The end of the year is a time to take stock. Here at Eye on the Arctic, it’s also the
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Alaska’s largest newspaper files for bankruptcy; new publishers emerge
Alaska’s largest newspaper filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Saturday evening and new owners have been lined up.
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Norway and Sweden surpass Finland in 2017 press freedom rankings
Advance reports last week that Finland had lost its top spot on the World Press Freedom Index are now confirmed.
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Barents Observer Editor Thomas Nilsen is declared unwanted in Russia by FSB
The Federal Security Service says he poses a threat to Russian national security and bars him entry to the country
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No, CNN, US Marines do not train on Norwegian-Russian border
CNN draws fire from Norwegian Army and Moscow’s RT news network for misleading headline. The story spread like wildfire. Same
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