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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Northwest Passage
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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Distinct visions for Alaska port project
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
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Blog: Back to the future – An Arctic conference in 1979
On a dusty shelf in the library at my university, I came across a volume entitled Marine Transportation and High
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First ‘luxury’ cruise ship will sail Arctic passage
A U.S. cruise company plans to send a luxury cruise ship through the Northwest Passage in August 2016. It would
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Blog: Interactive atlas shows Inuit trails
Last week, a new atlas was released documenting the network of pan-Inuit trails crisscrossing the Arctic from Alaska to Greenland.
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Alaska and Arctic Shipping: Boon or Boondoggle?
At the July 16-18 Symposium on the Impacts of an Ice-Diminishing Arctic held in Washington, D.C., Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski
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