The effect of climate change on wildlife and their habitat looms as "the conservation challenge of our generation," an official with a national wildlife group said Tuesday. Climate change is affect...
(Jane George/Nunatsiaq News, 16 November 2009) -- One of the great pioneers of Arctic medicine, Dr. Otto Schaefer, well-known to many Nunavut residents, died peacefully at his home in Jasper, Alta....
(CBC News, 17 November 2009) --Nunavut Premier Eva Aariak says she is not giving up hope that Canada will make a strong commitment to dealing with climate change at a United Nations conference next...
In a successful two-day meeting in Copenhagen, the Arctic Council Senior Arctic Officials approved a number of reports and from the Council’s working groups and discussed two new task forces.
Nunavut Premier Eva Aariak says she is not giving up hope that Canada will make a strong commitment to dealing with climate change at a United Nations conference next month.
(Siku Circumpolar News, 16 November 2009) -- Inuit have sent a message to world leaders that action must be taken at next month's United Nations climate summit. Inuit leaders from around the Arctic...
(Barents Observer, 16 November 2009) -- Industrial production in the far northern Nenets Autonomous Okrug increased 38.5 percent year-on-year in the first six months of 2009, the latest Barents Mon...
(Telegraph, 16 November 2009) -- These images are taken from a new National Geographic book called Polar Obsession by extreme wildlife photographer Paul Nickle [sic, Nicklen]. [There are some di...
Nunavut MLAs will review the territory's decentralization program, which promised to spread jobs and wealth outside the capital when the territorial government was formed 10 years ago.
(IceNews, 15 November 2009) -- An international conference held in Nuuk has sought to understand why so many young men in the circumpolar region take their own lives. Despite declining overall rate...
Inuit leaders are calling on Canada's three northern territories to be more vocal about the need to address climate change, as the United Nations conference comes up in Copenhagen next month.
(RIA Novosti, 16 November 2009) -- VLADIVOSTOK - A Russian icebreaker with 105 passengers on board has been trapped in ice during a cruise in the Arctic, a Russian Far East marine cruise official s...
(Dan Joling/AP, 15 November 2009) -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell says he has the best interest of polar bears at heart, but he doesn't intend to let the federal government's expand...
A large mass of 20 icebergs is heading towards New Zealand, Australian scientists say, but oceanographer Dr Mike Williams warns it is too early to predict a repeat of the icebergs that paraded past...
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