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Thin ice hampers survey of rare seal dens in southeast Finland

Yle News
Posted: Monday, April 8, 2019 at 14:21
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Researchers tracking the endangered Saimaa seal population of the Finnish lake district (southeast Finland) say that conditions are good for

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General News 

Deep snowbanks bode well for Finland’s rare Saimaa seals

Yle News
Posted: Monday, January 14, 2019 at 12:15 — Last Updated: Monday, January 14, 2019 at 13:40
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The endangered Saimaa seals of eastern Finland may be able to nest this spring without human help. In recent years

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General News 

Finland’s endangered Saimaa seal population climbing back

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 at 15:00
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The population of the endangered Saimaa ringed seal has risen to 392 individuals in Finland, according to the Ministry of

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Environment Environment (USA) General News USA 

Communities wrestle with shark-bite mystery off Alaskan coast

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 at 15:31 — Last Updated: Friday, July 27, 2018 at 15:52
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Sometimes it’s seals with amputated flippers. Or even a sea lion snatched seemingly out of thin air. But for at

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Environment Environment (Norway) General News Norway 

Polar bears greatly exposed to toxic chemicals in eastern Barents Sea

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 13:10 — Last Updated: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 13:12
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Polar bears following the sea ice in hunt for seals have a 30-35% higher concentration of perfluoroalkyl substances compared to

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General News 

Can a high-pitched noise scare seals away from Baltic fisheries?

Yle News
Posted: Monday, July 9, 2018 at 15:01
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This summer Finland’s Natural Resources Institute (Luke) is experimenting with a newly developed acoustic deterrent in the Baltic sea waters

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Environment Environment (Finland) Finland General News 

Endangered Finnish seal population slowly recovering

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 10:43 — Last Updated: Friday, May 4, 2018 at 09:49
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A survey of endangered Saimaa seal nests in eastern Finland has turned up 78 pups born this year. Census-takers also

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Environment (USA) General Science USA 

Could a giant polar bear skull from Alaska belong to the legendary ‘weasel bear’?

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 18:49
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Aboriginal hunters from Arctic Canada have a couple of names for what they say is an extremely rare polar bear that

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#Sealfie shot in downtown Iqaluit, the capital city of Canada's eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut. (CBC)
Canada Society Society (Canada) Special Features 

Inuit gather in Canada’s eastern Arctic for pro-sealing, anti-Ellen ‘sealfie’

CBC News
Posted: Friday, March 28, 2014 at 09:54
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More than two dozen people in Iqaluit gathered at the Four Corners in the city’s downtown to shoot a “#sealfie”

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Walrus hauled on on sea ice near King Island in Alaska. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch)
Environment Environment (USA) USA 

Changing sea ice may be spreading diseases among mammals

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, February 17, 2014 at 15:24
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The warming climate is helping spread southern pathogens and diseases north, scientists have found. But what about northern pathogens and

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The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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