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Emily Gertz is a freelance American journalist with over a decade of experience covering the environment, energy, climate, and related science, technology, policy, and social justice news. She has reported for Men’s Journal, Popular Science, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, and many other publications, and was a 2015 Arctic Reporting Fellow with the Barents Observer.
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A new railway project would help Finland and Norway take advantage of melting sea ice to ship products from the Arctic coast. But Indigenous communities fear the rail line would disrupt their reindeer herding traditions.
The World Wildlife Fund spent 18 months scoring how well Arctic nations are meeting their environmental goals. But as the WWF Arctic Programme’s communications chief Clive Tesar explains, the grades are just part of a bigger picture.
Revived plans to drill for oil at the calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd are prompting outcries from Indigenous people with ancient ties to the herd.
As climate change ushers new plants and animals into the Arctic, new conservation models are needed, and we’d be wise to learn from the region’s original inhabitants, says Finnish geographer Tero Mustonen.
Efforts to curb the flow of chemicals such as PCBs into Arctic waters have proven largely successful, but there’s a new wave of nasty substances to watch, warns the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program.
Half of the Arctic region’s frozen soils are expected to disappear even if international climate change targets are met. The resulting release of greenhouse gases could trigger an environmental disaster.
Strangely warm temperatures are sending the Arctic Ocean’s sea ice on a downward spiral that could have far-reaching implications for the region’s people and wildlife.
TAKE PART: Finland’s parliament is considering a bill that could give logging, lakebed gravel mining and tourist fishing priority over the preservation of some of Europe’s last intact boreal forests – and the endangered species and reindeer herders that rely on them.
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