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Countries ENVIRONMENT Environment Featured Featured • Zone 3 General Russia 

Old taiga forest in northwest Russia now a nature reserve

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 11:14
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Intensive logging is no longer permitted in the 3,000 square kilometres area now known as the Dvina-Pinega nature reserve. “Today,

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BUSINESS Business Countries Featured Featured • Zone 2 General Russia 

Russian Arctic National Park director aims to boost tourism

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, September 27, 2019 at 11:20 — Last Updated: Friday, September 27, 2019 at 11:22
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The establishment of a special customs regime around the remote archipelago of Franz Josef Land, in Arctic Russia, would boost

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Canada Countries Cyber Cyber-5 ENVIRONMENT Environment General 

Sanikiluaq, Nunavut wins $5.5M to lay groundwork for protected area on Belcher Islands

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 at 14:03 — Last Updated: Friday, September 6, 2019 at 10:37
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A project to expand community-driven science and lay the groundwork for a protected conservation area on the Belcher Islands has

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Countries ENVIRONMENT Environment General Russia 

Can the environment withstand Arctic Russia’s coal mining boom?

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, August 23, 2019 at 14:12 — Last Updated: Monday, August 26, 2019 at 10:40
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Climate crisis and environmental concern notwithstanding, Russia says it aims for a big dig of the carbon-rich rock. Much of

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Canada Countries ENVIRONMENT Environment Featured Featured • Zone 2 General 

Final agreement signed to protect Peel watershed in northwestern Canada

CBC News
Posted: Friday, August 23, 2019 at 11:54 — Last Updated: Friday, August 23, 2019 at 14:12
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It has taken more than 15 years of consultations, protests, court battles and more consultations — and now a final

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Canada Countries ENVIRONMENT Environment Featured Featured • Zone 1 General 

Major land use agreement to be signed in Yukon, northwestern Canada

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 22, 2019 at 10:24
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It has taken more than 15 years of consultations, protests, court battles and more consultations — and now a final

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Canada Countries Cyber Cyber-3 ENVIRONMENT Environment Featured Featured • Zone 3 General 

New Indigenous protected area created in Northern Canada

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 at 16:13 — Last Updated: Friday, August 23, 2019 at 11:45
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A remote Indigenous community in Canada’s Northwest Territories is celebrating today the creation of a new Indigenous protected area that

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Countries ENVIRONMENT Environment Featured Featured • Zone 1 General Russia 

Moscow supports Vostok Coal’s expansion into protected Arctic tundra

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 7, 2019 at 10:46 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 7, 2019 at 10:52
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Company Vostok Coal has been been fined several hundred million rubles for illegal mining in Russia’s Taymyr Peninsula, but still

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Canada Countries ENVIRONMENT Environment Featured General Highlights 

First Nation in Canada’s Northwest Territories votes to support creation of national park reserve

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 14:06
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Members of the Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation voted in favour of the proposed Thaidene Nene National Park Reserve on

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Countries Featured General Highlights POLITICS Politics USA 

Trump’s pick for U.S. Interior secretary has worked for Alaska and energy industry

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 at 10:49
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U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated David Bernhardt to be the next secretary of Interior, to replace Ryan Zinke. Bernhardt

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Countries Featured General Highlights POLITICS Politics USA 

Alaska’s Murkowski aims to revive public lands bill in U.S. Senate

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Thursday, January 3, 2019 at 09:57
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One of Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski’s first priorities in the Congress that begins Thursday is to pass a 680-page public

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Featured Finland General Highlights SOCIETY Society 

Finland’s national parks popular despite poor maintenance

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, September 13, 2018 at 12:14
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Finnish national parks are in high demand, but about a third of their paths are in moderate or serious disrepair,

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ENVIRONMENT Environment Featured General Highlights USA 

U.S. Gov quietly allows land survey in Alaskan wildlife refuge, enviro groups furious

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Friday, July 20, 2018 at 16:49
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Conservation groups say the Interior Department has gone behind the public’s back and conducted a land survey in the Izembek

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Featured Finland General Highlights SOCIETY Society 

Finnish national parks will remain free despite budget woes

Yle News
Posted: Friday, July 6, 2018 at 12:04 — Last Updated: Friday, July 6, 2018 at 13:26
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Outdoor destinations managed by the state forest agency Metsähallitus will still be free for public use regardless of budget shortfalls,

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Featured General Highlights POLITICS Politics USA 

Trump claims Alaska wildlife refuge road ‘almost completed’… but is it?

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at 10:49 — Last Updated: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at 10:54
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President Trump on Tuesday asserted the controversial King Cove road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge (southwestern Alaska) will be

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