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In this Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 file photo, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, third right, visits an assembly shop, with the Angara booster rocket at right, at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Plesetsk, northwestern Russia. The recent Angara A5 rocket launch failed and crashed near a near the village of Zabolotye in Arkhangelsk Oblast. (Alexander Astafyev/ Government Press Service/RIA-Novost/AP)
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Rocket fails, falls down near village in Russia’s North

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 13:44 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 19:04
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The launch of the experimental Angara A5 from the Plesetsk Space Center flops. The rocket landed near a local village. The

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A glacier in Tongass National Forest, Alaska. (iStock)
Environment Environment (USA) Special Features USA 

NASA projects tracking changes in Alaska’s glaciers and Arctic atmosphere

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 19:22 — Last Updated: Friday, September 19, 2014 at 19:59
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The U.S. agency that explores outer space is also probing another frontier — the rapidly warming climate in Alaska and

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The KAIRA radio telescope is located at Kilpisjärvi, right along the border with Norway. (Raimo Torikka / Yle)
Environment Environment (Finland) Finland 

Finland inaugurates radio telescope in Arctic

Yle News
Posted: Monday, June 10, 2013 at 09:16
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The largest radio telescope in Finland was formally inaugurated this past week at Kilpisjärvi in Finnish Lapland. Known as KAIRA

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A prototype of GROVER, minus its solar panels, was tested in January 2012 at a ski resort in Idaho. The laptop in the picture is for testing purposes only and is not mounted on the final prototype. (Gabriel Trisca, Boise State University, NASA)
Denmark/Greenland Environment Environment (Denmark/Greenland) 

NASA rover roaming Greenland’s ice sheet

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 11:58
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A NASA rover known as GROVER is roaming Greenland to collect data that may help scientists better understand changes to

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