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Satellites provide crucial insights into Arctic amplification

Phys Dot Org 24 May 2023

Arctic amplification is the process whereby the Arctic region warms at a faster pace than the global average ... ESA's Science for Society Arktalas Hoavva project, which in the northern Sami language means Arctic Ocean, is dedicated to the study of Arctic amplification using satellite data ... Sea ice is formed as seawater freezes to form freshwater ice.

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The Sudan conflict has put its cultural heritage in harm's way

The National 19 May 2023

Outside Khartoum, information is thin on the ground, even though River Nile state and Northern State are home to the country’s two Unesco World Heritage Sites – at Meroe and Jebel Barkal. Sami Elamin, regional director of antiquities in Northern State, has been working at Jebel Barkal for years, where he is also resident manager, and is there now.

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Sweden's 'Truth Commission' delves into painful Sami past

Urdu Point 10 May 2023

Experts have since February been gathering the often-painful accounts from Samis, formerly known ... There are an estimated 100,000 Sami people across the vast Arctic wilderness of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia's Kola peninsula.

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Sweden delves into past Sami abuses

Taipei Times 10 May 2023

After centuries of persecution, Sweden’s indigenous Sami people are beginning to provide testimony about the injustices they experienced in a recently launched Truth Commission probing the country’s past policies ... There are an estimated 100,000 Sami people across the arctic wilderness of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia’s Kola Peninsula.

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Jordanian hotels see reservation bump at end of April

The Jordan Times 01 May 2023

The spring season typically witnesses a demand spike for hotels in the capital, and brings about a shift in consumer’s vacation preferences towards the country’s northern regions, Qasem added. Saif Sami, an employee at a hotel in Aqaba, attributed April’s high occupancy rates to ...

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Fears Sweden's Green Transition threating reindeer herders' way of life

ITV 25 Apr 2023

It’s a journey that Sami people have been making for millennia, but the way they go about it has changed beyond recognition ... Sami people live in a region known as Sapmi - or Lapland - which spans the northern reaches of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia ... But it’s not just the Sami ...

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Monday's local scoreboard for April 24

Grand Forks Herald 25 Apr 2023

Prep softball. Monday’s results. EGF Senior High vs ... Badger-Greenbush-MR 1, Northern Freeze 0 ... WP ... N.D ... MSU Mankato 4-2, Northern State 1-4 ... T ... Player -- Sami Reding, Bellevue College baseball ... Minnesota Crookston 2-3, Northern State 1-2 ... Minnesota Crookston 18, Northern State 2 ... Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference ... Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference.

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Northern Pines delegation lobbies state, federal representatives for mental health

Brainerd Dispatch 22 Mar 2023

BRAINERD — Northern Pines Mental Health Center sent representatives to Mental Health Day on the Hill March 9 at the Minnesota State Capitol and at the U.S ... The Northern Pines delegation sent to St ... Justin Eichorn, second from left, meets March 9 with a delegation from Northern Pines Mental Health Center on Mental Health Day.

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11 indoor events to enjoy on a rainy St Patrick’s weekend

Irish Independent 17 Mar 2023

... the rich oral culture of Ireland and examining its place in the world at large.An examination of Southern Italian folk and its links to Donegal; a comparison of the Sami people of Northern Europe and the Irish Travelling Community and also ‘Ukraine and Ulster.

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11 indoor events to enjoy on what looks like a rainy St Patrick’s weekend

Irish Independent 16 Mar 2023

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Lady Crusaders pull away for 50-27 win over Northern Bedford

Courier Express 13 Mar 2023

MARYS — The Elk County Catholic girls basketball team put together a pair of gigantic runs against visiting Northern Bedford Saturday in the first round of the PIAA Class A playoffs — one to surge to an early double-digit lead and the other to put the game away in the fourth quarter against the District 5 runners-up ... NORTHERN BEDFORD 27.

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High school wrestling rankings: A tough goodbye for Notre Dame-GP’s Garcia, Veres

The Morning Call 13 Mar 2023

... (18-15); Dillon Lombardi, Palmerton (23-12); Tanner McQueen, Notre Dame-GP (17-20); Austin Noe, Northampton (25-14); Austin Rex, Northern Lehigh (15-12); John Samy, Salisbury (35-9); Ridge Snyder, Jim Thorpe (26-14); Evan Wentz, Lehighton (25-10); Cam Wickemeyer, Freedom (20-18).

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Protests force Norway's energy minister to cancel UK trip

Billings Gazette 11 Mar 2023

because of a protest against a wind farm that campaigners say hinders the rights of the Sami Indigenous people to raise reindeer in Arctic Norway ... The 39-seat Sametinget is a representative body in Norway for people of the Sami who live in Lapland, which stretches from northern parts of Norway through Sweden and Finland to Russia.

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High school wrestling rankings: Nazareth’s Sonny Sasso all about the team

The Morning Call 07 Mar 2023

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Norway's government apologizes to Sami reindeer herders

Gettysburg Times 03 Mar 2023

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Norwegian government apologized Thursday to reindeer herders after activists spent a week protesting a wind farm that they say hinders the rights of the Indigenous Sami people in central and Arctic Norway ... Between 40,000 and 60,000 Sami live in central and northern Norway.