Sunday, June 22, 2025

Eye on the Arctic

Issues affecting circumpolar nations

The town of Faro, Yukon, is looking to social media to help shed its mining town image. (Town of Faro)

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A picture taken on April 16, 2015 shows a general view of the port of Sabetta in the Kara Sea shore line on the Yamal Peninsula in the Arctic circle, some 2450 km of Moscow. The Yamal LNG (liquefied natural gas) project aiming to extract and liquefy gas from the Yuzhno-Tambeyskoye gas field is scheduled to start production in 2017. Russia's Novatek holds a 60 percent stake in the venture. France's Total and China's CNPC hold 20 percent each. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images)

Chinese mega-deals in Yamal LNG

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Shell and other oil companies are embarking on offshore oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic. In the meantime, the coastal plain in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge remains off limits to oil drilling. (Illustration: Aaron Jansen, Alaska Dispatch)

Alaska lobbying group wants ANWR drilling

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Aggressive elk in northern Sweden prompt police warning

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