Russian icebreaker hired to deliver emergency fuel to Alaska – highlights acute shortage of U.S. icebreakers
A Native corporation’s decision Monday to ask a Russian icebreaker to deliver an emergency shipment of fuel added an exclamation
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Lack of snow in Scandinavian Arctic ‘catastrophe’ for tourism
Tourism companies in northern Scandinavia are losing money due to the mild weather with little snow. “It’s a catastrophe,” says
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Finnish tourist industry urged to prepare for snowless winters
New research published on Tuesday shows that climate change could have a definitive effect on the tourism industry in the
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Rejected by Iceland, billionaire sets sights on Arctic Finland for tourism project
A Chinese businessman turned down for a tourism project in Iceland is now setting his sights on Lapland, in Finland’s
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Canadian Innu fear social costs of new business deal
Some residents of Canada’s northern Labrador coastal community of Natuashish are worried that the money attached to the New Dawn
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Finland reindeer suede conquers catwalk
Reindeer suede is the latest craze in the world of high fashion. Brands like Armani and Ralph Lauren are featuring
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Test driving industry booming in Arctic Sweden
Despite a mild autumn, it’s boom time for Sweden’s road-testing garages. Thousands of new cars are heading to northern Sweden
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Northern Swedish town trying to attract Russian immigrants
Sorsele, a town in Sweden’s northern Lapland province, is hoping to attract Russians to the community to increase the population.
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Electricity costs different in Sweden’s North and South
Swedes in south Götaland pay 30 öre more, per kilowatt-hour, than those in Norrland. A recent reform of the electricty
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Stockholm already hit by climate change
Stockholm is sometimes known as the Venice of the North, but a new exhibition shows that homes by the water
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Baltic ferry between Finland and Sweden may go bankrupt
The ferry line that connects two northern Swedish and Finnish cities is close to bankruptcy, reports Swedish Radio Västerbotten. The
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Greenpeace aims to block new nuclear plant in northwest Finland
The environmentalist group Greenpeace says it will start a campaign against the Fennovoima-owned nuclear power plant planned for construction at
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Nuclear reactor to be built in North Finland
Finland’s third nuclear power plant location, and sixth nuclear reactor, is to be built at Pyhäjoki, a community of around
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Finland’s next-generation icebreakers on the horizon
A new generation of icebreakers will soon be pushing through ice-covered waters. The next-generation ship, built by Finnish company Aker
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Court overrules appeals against nuclear plant sites in Finland’s North
Finland’s Supreme Administrative Court has overruled appeals over a new nuclear reactor project by Fennovoima, a power utility consortium. On
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