Arctic-spanning fiber-optic project moves ahead in Alaska
Alaskans are playing a bigger role in an international project that seeks to link Europe and Asia with a fiber-optic cable
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Arctic Finland looks for boost from Chinese tourists
Growing numbers of Chinese tourists are expected to visit Finnish Lapland as the Regional Council of Lapland expands contacts with
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Blog: The Third Wheel: Observers in the Arctic Council
Does the United Kingdom need an Arctic Ambassador? According to the UK House of Lords Select Committee on the Arctic,
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Blog: Greenland – barrels of oil and bottles of water
In the past week, there have been two interesting stories about Greenland in the news. The first is in The Economist,entitled, “Greenland
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Will Barents oil investments be financial disaster?
TROMSØ: To drill or not to drill, that’s the Arctic Frontiers question of the year. Investor Jens-Ulltveit-Moe warns Troms and
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Solar and wind power yield cheapest energy say Finnish experts
Scientists at the eastern Lappeenranta University have calculated that China would become even more profitable if it were to make
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Russia, shipping and political crisis in Greenland: 2014 Year in Review (Part 3)
Today is the last instalment of the Eye on the Arctic Year in Review where we checked in with our
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Blog: China’s silk road plans could challenge Northern Sea Route
For several years now, the Northern Sea Route (NSR), the shipping lane hugging the north coast of Russia, has been touted
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Northern Sea Route traffic plummets
After four years of increased use of the Northern Sea Route by vessels going in transit between Europe and Asia,
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Blog: Alaska ships its first oil to Asia in a decade
On September 26, ConocoPhillips‘ Polar Discovery departed the Valdez Marine Terminal in Alaska for Yeosu, South Korea. Valdez is where the Trans-Alaska Pipeline,
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Blog: The Russian Far East, the Arctic and Foreign Trade
On Monday, I wrote about the diamond mine located in Mirny, a city in the Sakha Republic in the Russian
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Blog: Asia and the Arctic in Eurasian Geography and Economics
For interested readers, the peer-reviewed journal Eurasian Geography and Economics has just published my article, “North by Northeast: Toward an
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Blog: Mapping and distorting the Arctic
I’m here at the University of Minnesota’s Polar Boot Camp, which is run by the on-campus Polar Geospatial Center (PGC).
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Blog: Full steam ahead for Asian icebreakers in the Arctic this summer
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) governs many of the activities on and below the
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Blog: China-Russia gas deal creates Arctic winners and losers
The $400 billion, 30-year China-Russia gas deal signed in Shanghai on May 21 has sparked a lot of excitement about
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