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Gwich’in Tribal Council supports wind project in Arctic Canada despite Nihtat Gwich’in Council opposition

Richard Gleeson, CBC News
Posted: Monday, December 7, 2020 at 11:38
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Grand Chief says Nihtat Gwich’in argument against wind turbine ‘fundamentally flawed’ The Gwich’in Tribal Council wants to see a wind energy

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Environment Environment (Russia) Russia 

Record-warm Arctic summer fatal to wild reindeer in Russia, say environmentalists

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, August 24, 2020 at 17:55 — Last Updated: Monday, August 24, 2020 at 18:01
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Temperature records are coming one after another across the Arctic. On the 15th August, Russian meteorologists measured 18,1° Celsius at Cape Sterligov

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland 

Miners hunting for metals to battery cars threaten Finland’s Sámi reindeer herders’ homeland

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, July 17, 2020 at 17:02 — Last Updated: Friday, July 17, 2020 at 17:05
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Nobody had asked them about exploring for minerals inside their siida, a reindeer foraging area, in northern Finland. The Sámi

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Environment Environment (Norway) Norway RCI 

Unusual amounts of snow and ice threaten reindeer in Arctic Norway

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, March 23, 2020 at 12:55
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“It’s a serious crisis,” says Elisabeth Aspaker, County Governor of Norway’s northernmost region. She calls on everyone not to disturb

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Finland Society Society (Finland) 

Arctic railway dream fades away as Sami herders signal ‘veto’

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Thursday, March 5, 2020 at 11:40
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Sami politicians and reindeer herders across the Norwegian-Finnish border join efforts and make clear no Arctic railway from Kirkenes to

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Society Society (Sweden) Sweden 

Swedish Sami and hunters react to historic win over state in land use case

Loukas Christodoulou, Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 12:32
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The Supreme Court, in Stockholm, was packed with people, most in traditional Sami dress, waiting for the result of a

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Society Society (Sweden) Sweden 

Sami indigenous village wins historic land use case over Swedish state

Radio Sweden
Posted: Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 11:58
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The Supreme Court has granted a Sami association in the far north the sole right to manage small-game hunting on

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Finland General Politics Politics (Finland) 

Commercial herding: cap on reindeer numbers shouldn’t change, Finnish gov experts say

Yle News
Posted: Monday, November 25, 2019 at 10:01
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Over the past year, a working group at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has been examining the future of

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General Society Society (Sweden) Sweden 

Indigenous Sami groups face each other in Swedish court over reindeer grazing rights

Viktor Asberg, Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 09:36
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Today, a unique trial gets underway in the district court of Lycksele, northern Sweden to decide who has the right

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Finland General Politics Politics (Finland) 

Long read – The Arctic railway: Building a future or destroying a culture?

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 14:52 — Last Updated: Friday, September 20, 2019 at 13:56
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The Arctic railway project from Rovaniemi, Finland to Kirkenes, Norway caused heated debate in Europe until it was tanked by

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General 

Reindeer struggling to stay cool as unusual heat hits northern Finland

Yle News
Posted: Monday, July 29, 2019 at 10:52 — Last Updated: Monday, July 29, 2019 at 10:55
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A pair of enterprising reindeer hit the beach in northern Finland last Tuesday as the mercury rose to 28 degrees

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General Geopolitics (Russia) Politics Russia Video Reports 

Video – Inside Russia’s rapid Arctic expansion

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, June 20, 2019 at 09:46 — Last Updated: Friday, June 21, 2019 at 10:19
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Russia is rapidly expanding its economic and military presence in the Arctic. The country’s ambitions are bringing changes to the

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Finland General News Politics Politics (Finland) 

Sámi youth oppose proposed Arctic rail line in northern Finland

Yle News
Posted: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 10:28 — Last Updated: Friday, May 24, 2019 at 14:59
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As lawmakers have gathered at Helsinki’s House of the Estates for government formation negotiations over the past several days, demonstrators

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General News Politics Politics (Russia) Russia 

Authorities in northwest Russia move to protect wild reindeer

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, February 18, 2019 at 11:19 — Last Updated: Monday, February 18, 2019 at 11:20
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Murmansk regional authorities want a permanent ban on hunting. Wild reindeer on the central and eastern part of the Kola

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General News Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

Railway linking Barents Sea coast to Arctic Finland not commercially viable, report says

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, February 11, 2019 at 11:00 — Last Updated: Monday, February 11, 2019 at 11:05
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Finnish-Norwegian working group says cargo volumes are too small to justify building a railway from Rovaniemi (Arctic Finland) to Kirkenes

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