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Andrea Hill

Andrea Hill

Andrea Hill is a recent graduate of Carleton University’s School of Journalism in Ottawa, Canada where she completed a combined degree in journalism and biology. She is a co-recipient of the Norwegian High North Journalism Award sponsored by the Norwegian Embassy in Canada and will be interning with the BarentsObserver throughout the spring of 2013.

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Content by Andrea Hill

Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are poised to consistently climb above 400 parts per million for the first time in human history - a reality that has damning implications for the Arctic.

In a rapidly changing Arctic, the region’s indigenous people are standing at the forefront of climate change and resource development – a situation that’s putting them increasingly in the international spotlight and raising questions about their role in Arctic policy making.

If you had asked Per Arild Aarrestad a decade ago about the state of pollution in the Barents region, he would have told you things were promising. These days, he’s not so sure.