Issues affecting circumpolar nations
With mass layoffs and mass insolvencies across Iceland amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the government has announced extended part-time unemployment benefits
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Nunavik regional health board reported two new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, bringing total confirmed cases in the Inuit region of
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A report by Radio Sweden found that the Swedish Public Health Agency underestimated the number of deaths due to COVID-19
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The North Slope Borough is backing out of a tentative deal to rent RavnAir Group’s Utqiagvik hangar and is reasserting
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More than 15,000 soldiers from nine countries will put down their weapons and start preparing to go home from their
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Northern Norway is battle zone in this year’s major allied Arctic exercise. Temperatures were dropping to below minus 20 degrees
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Did you know that you can follow Santa Claus on his long journey around the world? For the 64th time,
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For a long time, many of us observing Arctic affairs have been using the term Rovaniemi Arctic spirit when we
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Even if global norms allowed America to buy Greenland, the neat redrawing of national borders and flag-raising that would follow
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With relations currently strained between the US and Russia, annual meetings such as the one convening in Vantaa (near Helsinki)
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Five NATO countries participate with both navy vessels and surveillance aircraft. Increasing Russian submarine activity in the North Atlantic makes
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In an Yle Radio 1 interview on Friday, weapon systems expert Arto Pulkki said he believes that in practice the
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Nearly 30,000 Greenlanders, or some 71.9% of eligible voters, went to the polls today on the world’s largest island. Some
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A 17-year-old dead from a meth overdose at a Palmer party. Protesters in Utqiaġvik – formerly Barrow – marching and
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When it comes to the latest data on the state of the Arctic sea ice, the Greenland ice sheet or
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