Ice-Blog: Arctic hot topic in icy Tromso
It’s standing room only for anyone who came a bit late to the opening of Arctic Frontiers this morning. This
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Blog: The North in the News
After the morning rush at the office, I was just catching up on some of the Arctic happenings over the
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Statoil awarded exploration licence off Greenland
I missed this over the holidays, but Norway’s Statoil, along with partners ConocoPhillips and Nunaoil, has been awarded an exploration
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BLOG: Stephen Harper and the North Pole – Still embarrassing Canadians in Arctic policy
It was a big week for Arctic governance and science, as Denmark and Canada both provided submissions to the Commission
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Arctic warming almost certainly man-made, says scientist
A geography and environmental science professor at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax has been analyzing temperature data from the Far
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Air traffic control was cause of Hercules crash in Sweden’s Arctic
Swedish air controllers gave a Norwegian military plane the wrong information and caused it to crash into a mountain, concluded
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Sweden to allow culling of wild wolves
Sweden’s Minister of Environment Lena Ek is prepared to allow licensed hunts for wild wolves and other predators in
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Swedes fifth happiest in world: UN survey
Swedes are the world’s fifth most happy people according to the 2013 UN World Happiness Report. The Danes were the
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Finnish roads the most dangerous in Nordics says newspaper
The daily newspaper Aamulehti out of the Finnish city of Tampere, reports on Wednesday that Finnish roads are the most dangerous in
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Search launched for missing Norwegian, Dane in North Sweden
Police, military personnel and volunteers have formed search parties for a 46-year-old Norwegian citizen in the northern mountain region of
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Blog: Permanent Arctic Council Secretariat opens in Tromso, strengthening Norway’s position in Arctic
The Arctic Council, the most important multilateral organization in the circumpolar north, opened the offices for its permanent secretariat in
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Reindeer slow global warming says study
According to Professor Lauri Oksanen of the University of Turku, grazing by reindeer keep arctic vegetation in check, thus reducing
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The Contested Space of NATO in the Arctic
DefenseNews has a thought-provoking analysis of NATO’s announcement earlier this month that it had no plans to establish a direct
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Canada’s Arctic patrol ships – A $250M mystery
An investigation by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has uncovered a $250-million mystery at the heart of Canada’s ambitious shipbuilding
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Blog: Is Maine the next near-Arctic state?
Yesterday, I mentioned in a blog post that Eimskip, the Icelandic shipping company, recently moved its North American hub from
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