Finland: Chainsaw-wielding fisherman rescues seal
Fisherman Tarmo Tolvanen from Rantasalmi in eastern Finland surged to fame in Finland after he cut a hole in the
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Seabirds still crowding Alaska rescue center
Hundreds of grounded common murres continue to challenge rescuers and baffle scientists as Alaskans grapple with the mystery of the starving,
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First wolf killed in Sweden’s controversial hunt
Midday Saturday saw the first shooting of a wolf in Sweden’s controversial hunt. The county authorities in Dalarna in central Sweden
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Dueling court rulings on Sweden’s wolf hunts
Wolf hunts remain a contentious issue in Sweden and now there is a battle in the courts about whether hunting permits for the
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Starving seabirds grounded in Southcentral Alaska
Normally found skimming the North Pacific, seabirds known as common murres are appearing inland in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough and elsewhere
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Ice-Blog: Arctic climate – positive narrative?
As 2015 draws to a close, the NOAA report card on the state of the Arctic and a substantial new
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Ice-Blog:: Melting glacier risk to seabed ecosystem
On my first visit to the Arctic in 2007, I went out into the Kongsfjord at Ny Alesund, Spitsbergen, with
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Climate change leads snowshoe hares to Arctic Alaska
Though abundant over much of mainland Alaska, snowshoe hares were, until recently, absent from the state’s northernmost Arctic region. When did they
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Blog: Mapping the Arctic’s future while erasing its past
Yesterday, Nature Climate Change published a new paper on mapping the future of the Arctic Ocean. The extent of open water
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U.S. Coast Guard wraps up busy Arctic season
DEADHORSE — Lt. Jason Evans was piloting a Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter over the oil fields of Alaska’s North Slope when
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Alaska gives go-ahead to hunt ice-stranded muskox
If an Alaska resident spots a musk ox floating on ice sea ice adjacent to a western Alaska game management
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Police hunt for wild boar in Swedish city
Police in central Malmö, Sweden had an unusual call-out Tuesday night, to hunt for a wild boar which had been
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Sweden to study Russian wolf DNA
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency is launching a program to analyse the DNA of wolves in Finland and Russia, in
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Female whalers break ‘ice ceiling’ in Arctic Alaska
For thousands of years, when Inupiat whaling crews hunted bowhead whales, the harpooners were traditionally men — until this generation, which has
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Nunavut allows limited caribou harvest after Baffin Island moratorium
Caribou are an important food source for Inuit on Baffin Island in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut. But declining
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