Blog – With Siumut’s re-election, will Greenland welcome Chinese investment?
Nearly 30,000 Greenlanders, or some 71.9% of eligible voters, went to the polls today on the world’s largest island. Some
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Major corruption case clouds Russian base projects in Arctic
Two men with close ties to the Ministry of Defence are charged with theft of almost 3 billion rubles in
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Climate researchers are building on 90 cm higher ground, prepare for the worst in Norway
«We have consistently and severely underestimated the rate of climate change,» says Director Jan-Gunnar Winther of the Norwegian Polar Institute.
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An Arctic Council meeting in Maine? Why it’s not as strange as you may think
PORTLAND, Me. – When Portland, Maine was named as the site of this fall’s Arctic Council Senior Arctic Officials meeting,
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Norwegian security fence may be too close to Russia
Up to 50 meters of Norway’s new security fence could be teared down and rebuilt. Supposed to be finished before
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Construction work restarted on Russia to Norway road
New year, new cash. Excavators and dump trucks are back in business on Russia’s road towards the Norwegian border. After
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Bankruptcies dip in Finland
While the building industry showed the largest drop, nearly 50 companies per month still filed for bankruptcy in the first
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Large Norwegian business presence in Murmansk, Russia
A quarter of all companies with Norwegian ownership in Murmansk and Arkhangelsk have disappeared since 2012, but still the activity
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Norway delays bridge-building to Russia on road to Crimea
Russia works seven days a week with new highway to the border, but the Norwegian Public Roads Administration today announced
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Relocation of Arctic town underway in Sweden
After years of planning, the first steps of tearing down and moving the Arctic town of Kiruna started today in
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New measures to protect the Saimaa seal in Finland
Restrictions on new holiday homes, more limits on fishing and an 800 metre no-go zone around dens are included in
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Blog: The new Arctic real estate boom – Tromso, Norway
In 2010, I went to Nuuk, Greenland for the first time. And I was surprised that as soon as people
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