Issues affecting circumpolar nations
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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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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Nobody had asked them about exploring for minerals inside their siida, a reindeer foraging area, in northern Finland. The Sámi
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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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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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The Supreme Court, in Stockholm, was packed with people, most in traditional Sami dress, waiting for the result of a
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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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Over the past year, a working group at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has been examining the future of
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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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The Arctic railway project from Rovaniemi, Finland to Kirkenes, Norway caused heated debate in Europe until it was tanked by
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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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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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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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Murmansk regional authorities want a permanent ban on hunting. Wild reindeer on the central and eastern part of the Kola
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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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