Arctic sea ice melt marks a new polar climate regime
ARCTIC OCEAN — At the edge of the ice blanketing part of the Arctic Ocean, the ice on Monday looked sickly. Where thick sheets...
Finland’s Finnair starts commercial flights to Iceland
Finnish airline Finnair start commercial flights between Helsinki and Iceland's Keflavik international Airport earlier this week.
The airline will fly four flights a week through May 31. Over...
Arctic prize honors Ban Ki-moon’s climate efforts
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, was given a warm welcome to Iceland Saturday as he received the first ever Arctic Circle Prize.
The prize...
Greenland’s ‘experiment children’ to seek compensation from Denmark
Six unwitting participants in a 1950s program to that was to turn Greenlandic children into Danish-speaking role models for a nation on the cusp...
Russia constructing purpose-built ship for sailing nuclear waste along Northern Sea...
Russia will build a special purpose ship for voyages with radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel along the Northern Sea Route.
Construction starts in 2020...
Edmonton CFL team decides on ‘Elks’ as new name
Edmonton’s Canadian Football League team has a new name: The Edmonton Elks.
“Re-branding a team is hard,” Chris Presson, president and CEO of the football...
Nunavut MP introduces bill to put Indigenous languages on election ballots
Nunavut MP Lori Idlout hopes to get Indigenous languages included on federal election ballots through a private member’s bill she introduced in the House...
Applications open for Students on Ice Arctic expedition
Students on Ice participants journey through Itilleq, a settlement in the Qeqqata municipality in Greenland, last July. (Martin Lipman / Students...
Tens of thousands of reindeer starve in Russia, as thick ice...
Local residents in Russia's Yamal region believe between 60,000 and 80,000 reindeer might have died of starvation over the past few months. The tragedy...
Work on Nunavik’s fiber optic network starts in July
The first leg of Nunavik’s fiber optic cable network is set to be installed along the Hudson Bay coast starting at the end of...
