Alaska senator says Navy has explaining to do
Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski says the Navy is again snubbing the concerns of Alaskans as it prepares for the next
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Finns begin to abandon lawsuits against Talvivaara mining company
Droves of private property owners have begun to abandon compensation claims for environmental damage caused by waste water leaks from
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Gloomy lingonberry forecast for northern Sweden
There will be a lot fewer lingonberries in the north of Sweden this year compared to last, according to the
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Fairbanks restaurant passing off elk as ‘reindeer tenderloin’ gets hit with $50,000 in fines
A Fairbanks restaurant that knowingly sold New Zealand elk as reindeer pleaded guilty Tuesday after being criminally charged with violating Alaska
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Wet weekend ahead for Finnish Lapland
There’s a wet weekend in store for most of the country as a band of rainfall moves in on Saturday
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FSB moves into new Murmansk, Russia headquarters
The security service in Russia’s Arctic capital moves into its new massive headquarters. The building has been under construction since
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Tribes in Alaska can now take lands into trust
Tribes in Alaska can move forward with petitioning the federal government to take lands into trust. A federal appeals court
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Battle over the future of Sweden’s right to roam
A forestry company in the northern area of Arjeplog is tired of car companies using its frozen lakes as test
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Why the U.S. doesn’t need to wait for an Arctic port to boost maritime safety
Even though no one yet is offering to spend money to build a full-service U.S. Arctic port, some steps could —
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Russia declares another indigenous group ‘foreign agent’
Russia’s Ministry of Justice has included the UN-related indigenous peoples’ development fund “Batani” in the list of NGO’s declared as
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Alaska villagers shelter in school after power outage
BETHEL – Residents of the Western Alaska village of Newtok have been sleeping at the school and using wood and
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Arctic, Alaska absent from Obama’s State of the Union
In his final State of the Union address President Obama never mentioned Alaska or the Arctic, but for a state that’s
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Native corporations Alaska’s new wildcatters
Alaska Native regional corporations are wildcatting for oil and gas in the state’s frontier basins, eyeing little-explored prospects after dusting off
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Finland mine discharges 750M litres of waste water
A total of 750,000 cubic metres – the equivalent of 750 million litres – of waste water will be discharged
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New approach to sanitation in Alaska villages
BETHEL – Three state-backed teams working to bring running water to 3,300 rural Alaska homes are developing their own versions
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