Rorshok Arctic Update

Canada investing in Inuit healthcare, NATO base in Rovaniemi, Finland’s children boosting the Sami language, another win for Arctic football, Greenland refusing American help, and much more!

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“How toddlers in Finland are saving an endangered Sámi language” by Erika Benke: https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20260218-saving-the-inari-smi-language

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Canada’s first Inuit university, Alaska to take a risk on a gas pipeline, Greenlanders at the Winter Olympics, Arctic wildfires spreading, Russia’s struggling economy, and much more!

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“Alaska’s subsistence system is losing its balance” By Patrick McCormick: https://www.adn.com/opinions/2026/02/11/opinion-alaskas-subsistence-system-is-losing-its-balance/

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NATO launching a new Arctic mission, Alaska’s expensive storm repairs, Canada looking to protect Hudson Bay, earthquakes in Iceland, Norway’s biggest ever scientific mission, and much more!

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“Collaboration, not exceptionalism, is the key to Arctic peace” by Andrew Erskine: https://www.arctictoday.com/collaboration-not-exceptionalism-is-the-key-to-arctic-peace/

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The US’s interest in deep-sea mining, the collapse of an Alaskan oil drilling rig, Norway’s multibillion-dollar investment in Arctic defence, fattening polar bears, Groundhog Day, and much more!

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“Groundhogs are lousy forecasters but valuable animal engineers – and an important food source” by Steven Sullivan: https://alaskabeacon.com/2026/02/02/groundhogs-are-lousy-forecasters-but-valuable-animal-engineers-and-an-important-food-source/

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The US looking to cancel an Indigenous support program, Canada’s reindeer recovery, the beluga whales’ shocking relationship structure, Norway’s football milestone, blackouts battering northern Russia, and much more!

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“Our salmon are vanishing — and the State of Alaska is letting it happen” by Brooke Woods: https://alaskabeacon.com/2026/01/23/our-salmon-are-vanishing-and-the-state-of-alaska-is-letting-it-happen/

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Russia’s warning of war, an international treaty creating strong ocean protections, a terrible winter for Norway’s reindeer, Alaska’s bear cameras, updates on the world's northernmost fully electric car ferry, and much more!

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“Greenland Today, Svalbard Tomorrow?” by Jan Jakub Solski and Ingrid Solstad Andreassen: https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/greenland-today-svalbard-tomorrow/

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US escalation of threats toward Greenland, Russia’s display of Arctic power, Canada’s demonstration of Indigenous conservation importance, freezing weather causing the shutdown of Lapland’s airports, the importance of Greenlandic science, and much more!

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“Freedom from China? The mine at the centre of Europe’s push for rare earth metals” by Lisa O’Carroll: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/10/china-mine-europe-rare-earth-metals-swedish-producer -

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Alaska’s boost to healthcare funding, Russia’s growing dark fleet, record-breaking Christmas heat in Iceland, Norway’s turn to potatoes to address food challenges, the invention of the “bear-dar,” and much more!

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“Kampen for språket (The fight for language)” by Ingvild Vik: https://www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnmark/xl/kvensk-kan-forsvinne-_-alma-_13_-kjemper-for-a-bevare-spraket-1.17689838

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Color-changing habits of reindeers, the Canadian government’s investment in northern development, a 70-billion-dollar estimated cost for an Alaska gas pipeline, Norwegian football fights over sharing money, the US increasing its investment in Alaska’s military, and much more!

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Alaska’s $44 billion bet on natural gas: https://www.arctictoday.com/alaskas-44-billion-bet-on-natural-gas/ -

“The World Has Laws About Land and Sea, but Not About Ice” by Brett Simpson: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2025/12/sea-ice-law/685401/

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The Arctic’s 2025 Report Card, Russia’s plans for a North Pole base, US actions upsetting Denmark, a whale virus spreading in the Arctic, Canadian financing for a struggling diamond mine, a rare polar bear adoption, and much more!

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Arctic Report Card: https://arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/

“Tracing pollution in the lives of Arctic seabirds” by Rachael Pells: https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-025-03078-5/index.html

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