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Calling all walrus detectives! Public can pitch in for count starting Jan 17…

Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Monday, January 16, 2023 at 15:30 — Last Updated: Monday, January 16, 2023 at 15:32
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Anyone interested in pitching in on an ongoing walrus census, can sign up as armchair detectives when the counting period

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* Featured * Canada Countries Featured • Zone 3 General News Society Society (Canada) 

Flagged for posting about walrus meat? Social media ‘violations’ discriminatory, says former Nunavut MLA

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 15:47
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By Jenna Dulewich · CBC News  “My favourite food! Walrus! I would pay anyone to get me some!” Former Nunavut MLA Manitok

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* Featured * * Newsroom Picks * Environment Environment (Norway) Featured • Zone 3 General News Newsroom Picks • zone 2 Norway 

Scientists head to Svalbard to count animals for Walrus from Space project

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Thursday, July 14, 2022 at 16:03 — Last Updated: Friday, July 15, 2022 at 08:08
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A group of international scientists is headed to the Norwegian Arctic this week to do the first onsite walrus count

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Environment Environment (Russia) General Russia 

Walruses attack, sink small navy craft in Arctic Russia

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at 13:07 — Last Updated: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 at 15:36
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Expedition participants from the Northern Fleet and Russian Geographical Society all managed to get to shore after their landing boat

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General Politics Politics (USA) USA 

Alaskans push for acceptance of walrus ivory, but there’s an elephant in the room

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 at 11:44
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U.S. federal law prohibits sales of African elephant ivory, but six states have now banned the sale of ivory more

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General Society Society (USA) USA 

Amid shrinking sea ice, hunters race to adapt in Alaska

Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Friday, February 2, 2018 at 12:03
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With warm temperatures this winter across the state, sea ice is forming exceptionally slowly in the Arctic and Bering Strait

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General Society Society (USA) USA 

Ivory bans in contiguous U.S. hit Alaska Native carvers hard

Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 15:02
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Recent measures to curb elephant poaching in Africa are having unintended consequences in Alaska. This July, the U.S. Fish and

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A male polar bear in the Beaufort Sea in 2005. (Steven C. Amstrup/USGS/AP)
Environment Environment (USA) General USA 

Grim outlook for Arctic wildlife in oil spill

Kamala Kelkar, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 15:39 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 18:53
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In the event of a large oil spill in Alaska’s Arctic, officials say they would have limited ability to clean oiled

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Greg Giannulis, owner of Mike's Quality meats in Eagle River, shows reindeer steaks he has frozen for sale. Giannulis has been purchasing and processing reindeer meat from Savoonga. (Marc Lester/ADN)
Business Business (USA) General Special Features USA 

Alaska community gets into reindeer meat market

Suzanna Caldwell, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Monday, April 13, 2015 at 16:44 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 14:40
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Lifelong Savoonga resident Richmond Toolie couldn’t wait to talk about the reindeer herd he manages. But there was a catch Wednesday:

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(Pamela Dunlap-Shohl / Alaska Dispatch News)
Environment Environment (USA) General USA 

Chukchi Sea shoal newly closed to oil leasing is well known as biological hot spot

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 18:28
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Hanna Shoal, a region of shallow water in the remote Chukchi Sea that President Barack Obama last week put off limits to

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A polar bear looks towards Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba in November 2007. Experts say climate change is slowing the formation of winter ice on Hudson Bay. Measurements show polar bears are getting smaller and lighter on average, than they were in the 1980's. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press)
Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Climate change adversely affecting Arctic wildlife

Marc Montgomery, Radio Canada International
Posted: Friday, October 3, 2014 at 17:39 — Last Updated: Monday, October 6, 2014 at 18:56
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There is increasing evidence that climate change, which is warming the polar region, is having a negative affect upon a

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Bowhead whales seen in the Beaufort Sea. (Laura Morse / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / AP)
Culture USA 

Savoonga, Alaska whales fulfill musical needs

APRN
Posted: Friday, December 13, 2013 at 15:10 — Last Updated: Monday, March 19, 2018 at 13:23
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Savoonga, a community on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska harvested two bowhead whales last week, both of them female. While the

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A snow goose in the state of Washington. Washington's population of the geese nest on Wrangel Island in Russia, north and west of the Bering Strait. (Elaine Thompson / AP)
Business Russia 

Russia sees Wrangel Island oil and gas potential; Greenpeace eyes an eastern Arctic front

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, October 10, 2013 at 11:28
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A remote island off northeast Russia has been swept into that nation’s campaign to capitalize on the Arctic’s potential for

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