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In this July 18, 2011 photo, an Inuit fisherman pulls in a fish on a sea filled with floating ice left over from broken-up icebergs shed from the Greenland ice sheet in Ilulissat, Greenland. (Brennan Linsley/AP Photo)
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Greenland accedes to UN treaty against mercury pollution

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at 16:00
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Greenland has acceded to the UN treaty against mercury pollution, the government said on Wednesday. “The supply of mercury to

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Blog – Greenland isn’t for sale, but it is for lease

Mia Bennett
Posted: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 at 14:33 — Last Updated: Friday, September 13, 2019 at 16:21
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Even if global norms allowed America to buy Greenland, the neat redrawing of national borders and flag-raising that would follow

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Labour shortage in northwestern Canada is ‘choking off economic growth,’ says economist

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 10:33 — Last Updated: Friday, July 26, 2019 at 09:38
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Yukon’s economic growth, in northwestern Canada, is expected to be slow in 2019, then pick up again in the next

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General News 

Dumped bombs pose toxic threat to Gulf of Finland

Yle News
Posted: Monday, June 25, 2018 at 09:00 — Last Updated: Friday, June 29, 2018 at 12:05
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Wartime depth charges and naval mines in the Gulf of Finland pose an increasing environmental risk to marine life, according

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Meet the powerful billionaires controlling Northwestern Russia’s industry

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 at 14:56 — Last Updated: Friday, June 8, 2018 at 11:26
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They are among the richest people on planet earth and hold an insane amount of private money. The Barents Observer

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Tourism outdoes Russian coal mining in Svalbard settlement

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 13:36
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The proud mining history of Barentsburg comes closer to an end as industrial sites and facilities are taken over by

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) 

Mercury levels rising in endangered Arctic gulls: biologist

The Canadian Press
Posted: Friday, March 20, 2015 at 13:56
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Only 500 breeding pairs of the Ivory Gull remain in Canada A biologist is suggesting rapidly rising rates of mercury contamination

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Business (Canada) Canada Environment (Canada) 

Deninu K’ue chief questions timing of Avalon mine announcement in Canada’s N.W.T.

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 15, 2013 at 10:34
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The chief of the Deninu K’ue First Nation in Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories is questioning Avalon Rare Metals’ plans to

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Business (Canada) Canada 

De Beers Canada eyes expansion to mine project near Attawapiskat

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 15, 2013 at 10:33
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De Beers Canada is looking into the possibility of extending its current Victor Mine project on northern Ontario’s James Bay

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