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The Fennica off the Finnish coast near Pori. (Markku Sandell / Yle)

Finland wants in on US icebreaker investment

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 20:17 — Last Updated: Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 20:19
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The head of Finnish state-owned company Arctia Shipping points out that operating icebreakers is a more lucrative business than building

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Obama brings funding promises to Arctic

Erica Martinson, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, September 3, 2015 at 13:28 — Last Updated: Friday, September 4, 2015 at 19:10
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The White House on Wednesday announced new efforts and funding to encourage energy efficiency in remote villages and the appointment

Kindergartners from June Nelson Elementary School in Kotzebue, Alaska get a tour of a presidential limousine outside their school on Tuesday, September 1, 2015. U.S. President Barack Obama will speak at the high school in Kotzebue on Wednesday. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch News)

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Arctic Alaska town prepares for Obama visit

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 13:14 — Last Updated: Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 19:14
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KOTZEBUE — You know someone big is coming to your town when people start clearing out the clutter that has long

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Arctic conference spotlights indigenous issues

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at 18:01 — Last Updated: Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 19:14
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Indigenous residents from some of the smallest communities and most remote parts of Alaska had a message for international leaders who

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Obama urges action on climate change

Nathaniel Herz, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at 13:16 — Last Updated: Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 19:14
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In the first address of his historic three-day visit to Alaska, President Barack Obama urged participants in a State Department

This Aug. 27, 2014 file photo shows Mount McKinley in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. President Barack Obama on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015 said he's changing the name of the tallest mountain in North America from Mount McKinley to Denali. (Becky Bohrer/ File / AP)

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Obama sends host gifts ahead of Alaska visit

Erica Martinson, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, August 31, 2015 at 18:49 — Last Updated: Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at 20:31
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President Barack Obama may be traveling into unfriendly political territory as he heads north to Alaska Monday, but he has

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Alaska trip shows Obama’s commitment to Arctic: Kerry

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, August 31, 2015 at 13:56 — Last Updated: Monday, August 31, 2015 at 20:06
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Federal officials have made a lot of unfulfilled promises in the past about paying attention to the issues and needs

A whalebone arch sits on the Barrow, Alaska shoreline. (Nicole Klauss / Kodiak Daily Mirror / AP)

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Winds cause flooding in Alaska village, prompts Shell to pause oil drilling

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, August 28, 2015 at 17:59 — Last Updated: Monday, August 31, 2015 at 20:06
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Huge, wind-whipped waves crashed onto the shore at Barrow on Thursday, forcing the closure of a nearby road, the National

The Yong Sheng arriving in Rotterdam on September 10, 2013. The Yong Sheng is the first commercial Chinese ship to transit through the Northern Sea Route, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by way of the Bering Strait and Russia's northern coast.(Robin Utrecht /AFP/Getty Images)

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Obama, China & the North Pole: Arctic week in review

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Monday, August 24, 2015 at 13:48 — Last Updated: Monday, August 24, 2015 at 13:49
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On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this

The village of Kivalina, Alaska. Will this be on of the stops on President Barack Obama's upcoming Arctic trip? (Northwest Arctic Borough via The Anchorage Daily News/AP)

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Details emerge about Obama’s Arctic trip

Nathaniel Herz, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 15:34 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 20:43
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Public officials and residents alike, from Anchorage to the 400-person village of Kivalina on the northwest coast, are watching and

This emaciated polar bear swam underwater for an unusually long time to try to catch a bearded seal. (Courtesy Rinie van Meurs)

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Guide sees record-long polar bear dive

Lynn Desjardins, Radio Canada International
Posted: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 19:30
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A guide in Norway’s Svalbard Islands saw an emaciated polar bear stay underwater for a very long time to stalk

View over mountains in Kebnekaise National Park in Sweden. (iStock)

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Summer 2015 missing in Tarfala, Sweden

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Posted: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 14:17 — Last Updated: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 18:53
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There was no Summer 2015 in Tarfala in the northern Swedish mountains. The Swedish weather service SMHI’s Sandra Andersson tells

The Mackenzie River Delta, in Northwest Territories, Canada, is shown. (Rick Bowmer/AP)

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Canadian river carries carbon from thawing permafrost to sea

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Friday, August 14, 2015 at 15:12 — Last Updated: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 19:44
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The mighty Mackenzie River, the largest northward-flowing river in North America and one of the main sources of freshwater flowing into

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White House video previews Obama’s Alaska visit

Erica Martinson, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 19:36 — Last Updated: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 19:44
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U.S. President Barack Obama will use his trip to Alaska later this month as the backdrop of a message to

A view towards to the coast from Nome, Alaska in January 2012. (US Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric J. Chandler / AP)

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Distinct visions for Alaska port project

Kamala Kelkar, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 18:00 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 15:38
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When Nome Mayor Denise Michels envisions the future of her city’s port, she sees some of the world’s largest cargo and cruise ships