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Willow, Alaska, United States
Tegan Hanlon /
Alaska Dispatch News /
February 11, 2017
For the second time in three years, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race will move its official start from Willow to Fairbanks due to poor trail conditions that race officials determined unsafe.
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Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
Ashley Joannou /
Yukon News /
February 15, 2017
Record-breaking warm temperatures had some people in Whitehorse basking in the sun. In Haines Junction it was raining so hard the sand was washing off the road.
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Östersund, Jämtland, Sweden
Radio Sweden /
February 14, 2017
Sweden is having another winter without much of the white stuff, but local councils are taking the matter in their own hands.
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Tornio, Lapland, Finland
Yle Uutiset /
February 11, 2017
Ice cover over Finlands sea areas is very low. Experts warn that the ice is now very thin over sea, and with spring slowly arriving, the situation is not likely to improve.
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Homer, Alaska, United States
Shahla Farzan /
KBBI /
February 15, 2017
Sea star wasting syndrome was first documented in Kachemak Bay in 2014, but it wasn’t until last summer that the mysterious infection began killing sea stars in large numbers.
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Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska, United States
Yereth Rosen /
Alaska Dispatch News /
January 19, 2017
The 2007 fire was probably the first for that area in 6,500 years, according to scientific evidence examined later, Higuera said. But the wait for the next big burn won't be nearly as long, according to the evidence gathered in the study.
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