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Category: Northern Profiles

The sheriff of Svalbard

30 September, 2015 Kevin McGwin

People | Part bureaucrat, part police officer, Oslo’s top official in Svalbard is in charge of maintaining law, order and the Norwegian way in the

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Telling tales of pyramids and taxicabs

6 October, 2014 Kevin McGwin

People | How will we look back on ourselves in 15 years? Artist Eva la Cour thinks the answer to that question can be found

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Where there are no streets to be named

29 September, 2014 Kevin McGwin

People | Scary Bear Soundtrack’s musical style may be out of sync with the Nunavut community they live in, but their indomitable spirit is unmistakably

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Home is where his sport is

25 August, 2014 Kevin McGwin

People | For Johnny Issaluk, Inuit games are more than just a sport, they are also a way for him to give the community he

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The biggest little city in the Arctic

14 June, 2014 Kevin McGwin

People | Longyearbyen is smaller than most populated places. But that doesn’t mean its mayor – or its people – don’t have big plans for

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Painting the Arctic in a different hue

26 November, 2013 Kevin McGwin

ArtiCulture | Expeditionary artist, Maria Coryell-Martin, talks about the Imaging the Arctic project and her love for the North

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Arctic Watch

  • Extreme Weather and the Arctic Meltdown
  • The Arctic: a delicate icy ecosystem
  • MOSAiC Science lectures – Arctic Sea Ice Ecology

Related thinks

  • Far but not so far: Italy’s Role and Interests in the Arctic (The Arctic Institute)
    11 November, 2020
  • Russia Unveils New Arctic Development Strategy: Focal Points and Key Priorities (Eurasia Daily Monitor)
    10 November, 2020
  • A Danish Approach to the Arctic (The International Affairs Review)
    10 November, 2020

Announcements

  • Minister Vandal announces appointments to the Board of Directors of Polar Knowledge Canada
    11 November, 2020
  • MEPC75 Webinar: Why the IMO’s draft Arctic HFO regulation will not protect the Arctic, and how to fix it
    11 November, 2020
  • Swedish, Finnish and Russian wolves closely related
    11 November, 2020
  • Scientists Have Discovered an Ancient Lake Bed Deep Beneath the Greenland Ice
    11 November, 2020
  • Sweden’s strategy for the Arctic region 2020
    11 November, 2020
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