Finland: Cameco announces reduced valuation of Talvivaara asset
Canadian uranium producer Cameco has announced a 70 million USD write-down of its Talvivaara asset due to the mining company’s
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Canada
Air Greenland plans another summer of Iqaluit-Nuuk flights
Air Greenland says tourists, not oil or mining companies, are keeping its route alive between Iqaluit and Nuuk. The airline
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Blog: Are Denmark’s new frigates Arctic-ready?
Over here in Canada there was plenty of controversy in 2013 over the cost of the country’s new Arctic patrol
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ANALYSIS: Race to claim High Arctic’s oil resources may be a fool’s mission
When asked earlier this week about extending Canada’s territorial claims in the Arctic, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird was clear
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Study finds bird declines in mountains of Finland, Sweden, Norway
Bird populations in the mountains of Finland, Sweden and Norway are declining, a trend associated with changing weather transforming northern
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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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Greenpeace Arctic 30: 2 Canadians jailed in Russia
Last week, when Russian authorities moved the 30 Greenpeace activists they had arrested nearly two months earlier, Canadians Paul Ruzycki
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BLOG: Russia opens first of ten new search and rescue centers in the Arctic
On August 20, the first of ten new Russian search and rescue centers along the Northern Sea Route (NSR) opened
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VIDEO – Changing Sea Ice: The Ripple Effect
Anthropologist Lene Kielsen Holm, an Inuk (Inuit) from Greenland, talks about the importance of sea ice in Inuit culture and
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Arctic bacteria discovered breeding at record –15 C
Bacteria that can live and multiply in High Arctic permafrost at temperatures well below the freezing point of water have
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Mental health centre opens in Iqaluit, Nunavut
People who need mental health treatment now have a new place to go in Iqaluit, the capital city of Canada’s
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Arctic Council Meeting May 15th: Who and What to Follow
Every two years, the Arctic Council (AC) Ministerial Meeting convenes in a city in the host country. The last meeting
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