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Inuvik council enacted a $280 fee for cemetery plot reservations and limited the program to town residents, aiming to manage an expanding cemetery while preserving family burial traditions.

Three-person CTV crew witnessed a spectacular aurora borealis across the Arctic sky on Tuesday night, drawing widespread attention to the region's natural beauty.

Critical Metals unveiled a process that extracts over 99% of eudialyte from its Greenland Tanbreez project and plans a $2.2B Romanian refinery that could produce ~28,000 tons of rare earths per year, with high‑purity silica by‑product revenue of ~$600M, aiming to secure Western supply chains.

Alaska logged about 600 earthquakes last week, including a 5.7‑magnitude shock in the western Aleutians on Sept. 11. The week’s activity highlights the importance of September’s National Preparedness Month and the upcoming Great Alaska ShakeOut on Oct. 15, where nearly 100,000 residents are set to practice earthquake response.

A new ICESat‑2 calibration/validation dataset releases Arctic summer sea‑ice heights and bathymetry, intended to assess the positional accuracy of the satellite’s green‑wavelength lidar.

Begich spoke on Arctic security, development and subsistence while the Stebbins community reports rebuilding progress and plans for a new school.

Russia is practicing attacks on undersea cables beneath Arctic waters, according to a Reuters report dated September 10.

A $5.5 million donation from the Australian BHP Foundation will fund Annauma Community Foundation’s multi‑year grants to Inuit groups in Nunavut, including Iqaluit, Rankin Inlet and Cambridge Bay, and support the foundation’s broader non‑profit development efforts.

Russia has positioned a flotilla of warships in the High North in response to NATO activity, underscoring a growing military footprint in the Arctic.

Nadezhda Filimonova aims to use her research to address waste management challenges in Arctic municipalities, seeking solutions that benefit residents.

Saga Metals ramps up exploration at its Radar titanium‑vanadium project in Cartwright, Labrador, reporting high‑grade drill results and testing a new on‑site processing method, while federal funding for regional infrastructure supports future development.

Pedro Sanches is leading a project to present Arctic ice, forest, and permafrost data in clearer formats, helping scientists, policymakers, and the public track environmental changes more effectively. By simplifying complex datasets, the initiative seeks to support evidence‑based decision‑making in the region.

A public hearing on potential Arctic drilling in Teshekpuk Lake will be held on Sep. 23‑24, 2026, with Earthjustice guiding participants on environmental concerns for local caribou.

Norway’s foreign minister said Russia is testing sabotage of undersea cables in the North Atlantic, a threat NATO cannot yet counter under Article 5. He described Norway’s hedging strategy of deeper ties with Nordic and Baltic neighbors, while urging the EU to add security to its Arctic plan and calling for greater cooperation against Chinese and Russian naval activity in the Aleutians.

A press conference was held at the European Arctic Summit in Rovaniemi, Finland, on September 14.

Arctic Indigenous storytellers in Toronto highlighted the 2018 Arctic Indigenous Film Fund as a key effort to extend Indigenous sovereignty from land to the screen, underscoring media’s role in circumpolar cultural assertion.

Russia has opened the Northern Sea Route and launched the Sever Bay LNG terminal, with Arc7 LNG tankers operating along the corridor; despite sanctions, the fleet will use ship‑to‑ship transfers beyond the route, while dark‑fleet vessels are observed conducting transfers east of Chongjin in the Sea of Japan.

USNORTHCOM deploys the 115th Fighter Wing from Wisconsin Air National Guard to Pituffik Space Force Base, Greenland, on Sept. 10, 2026, expanding U.S. military presence in the Arctic.

The U.S. 115th Fighter Wing conducted Arctic operations, part of Operation ARCTIC, underscoring the region’s challenges to USNORTHCOM’s operational readiness.

Finland’s President Alexander Stubb affirmed the United States remains a key partner in Arctic affairs, while publicly backing Denmark’s stance on Greenland.