Ice-Blog: The Arctic on the UN agenda
To those of us who deal with the Arctic on a regular basis, the significance of the melting ice for
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Finland’s sea eagles now nesting far inland – even Karelia and Lapland
Finland’s white-tailed eagle population is staging a strong recovery after nearly disappearing four decades ago. The majestic raptors, which can
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Study envisions fallout from oil spill in Arctic Canada
A well blowout, pipeline breach or vessel accident in the Canadian Beaufort Sea could spew spilled oil westward for months,
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Finland: Call for action after entanglement deaths of critically-endangered seals
The conservation group WWF Finland is urging the Ministry of Agriculture to move quickly to further restrict net fishing in
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Ice-Blog: Time for a “new environmentalism”?
What are these cuddly marmots doing on an exhibition stand at Green Week, Europe’s biggest environment policy gathering, being held
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Volunteers and soldiers clean spilled oil by hand in Raahe, Finland
At least four islands have been polluted by heavy oil that leaked from the Rautaruukki steel mill in Raahe on
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Ice-Blog: Empowering Arctic Youth
Back in 2008, the Ice Blog was born when I was on a trip to Alaska reporting on the “Climate
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Ice-Blog: Oil, Industry and Arctic Sustainability
I arrived at the university campus for Arctic Frontiers this morning to find a row of young people waiting to
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Ice-Blog: Sustainable future for Arctic people?
It has been a full day at Arctic Frontiers. This was day one of the two-day political segment (science follows
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