Britain will give historic Franklin wrecks to Canada
The U.K. government has announced it will gift two recently-found wrecks from the historic Franklin expedition to Canada, while holding
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Northwest Passage
Chinese icebreaker navigates across central Arctic
On Monday, «Xue Long» is doing research in the Norwegian Sea, sailing a back-and-forth pat half-way between Bjørnøya and Jan
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Inuit and Canadian government agree on Arctic conservation area
Nearly five decades after Canada’s Inuit began their fight to preserve a unique marine ecosystem, the federal government, the Territory
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Blog – Canada’s defence review & the Arctic : A bipartisan consensus?
Canada’s long-awaited defence review came out earlier this summer, giving Arctic experts the chance to analyse the Trudeau government’s position on Arctic issues.
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Blog: Why Republicans’ Russia-envy in the Arctic is misplaced
A flurry of headlines have recently declared that Russia is kicking its militarization efforts in the Arctic into high gear.
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U.S. Arctic strategy puts Canada and Russia on notice
A U.S. Arctic strategy document made public this week is putting both Moscow and Ottawa on notice that Washington considers the
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Sir John Franklin’s long-lost HMS Terror found: The Guardian
HMS Terror, one of Sir John Franklin’s two ships lost in the doomed 1845 Franklin Expedition, has been found in “in
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As an extravagant cruise ship comes to town, Nome confronts its future
NOME — Residents in this Western Alaska town awoke Sunday morning to the novel sight of the largest cruise ship that
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How Arctic shipping could boost Canada’s trade relationship with Asia
While the Northwest Passage is a long way away from becoming a commercially viable maritime shipping route, even a moderate
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Arctic cruises are risky business: expert
Climate change means melting ice will make it possible for cruise ships to go through the Northwest Passage in
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Report urges creation of new governance structure for oversight of Arctic shipping
Canada needs to come up with a new governance structure for Arctic shipping corridors through the Northwest Passage to address
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Ice-Blog: Time to cruise the Northwest Passage?
When I came across a story about a sold-out cruise through the North-West Passage planned for this summer on a
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Arctic shipping: The myths, the realities & the challenges ahead
TROMSO, Norway – Climate change and the effect of global warming on the North had many predicting a shipping bonanza
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Calls for protection of Canada’s Lancaster Sound
An environmental group has partnered with Inuit artists to produce a short film it hopes will draw attention to the
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Ice, shipping and the Northwest Passage
New findings from on-site research have found that ice in the Northwest passage can still be too thick and ice
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