Issues affecting circumpolar nations
The Northwest Territories government, in Northern Canada, has revealed northern hiring targets it’s setting for the construction and operation of
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A key bridge on the railroad used for shipping diesel fuel to the Northwest Territories (Canadian central Arctic) is damaged,
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The CN Rail railway bridge at Steen River, in northern Alberta, has burned down. Jonathan Abecassis, a spokesperson for CN
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Drivers heading out on the Liard Highway — Hwy. 7 in the Northwest Territories, in Canada’s central Arctic — may
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On Monday morning the Finnish Meteorological Institute reported a dusting of snow cover at its Tikkakoski weather station in Jyväskylä,
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Mickey Hempler has kept drivers safe on a remote northern winter road for two decades — but he won’t be
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Snow has been melting fast in Yukon, northwestern Canada this week, and Tara Wheeler says that can really do a
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Deteriorating conditions on the Mackenzie Valley Winter Road have prompted the Northwest Territories government to close the winter highway for
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The federal Liberal’s latest budget does not earmark money specifically for the proposed Mackenzie Valley Highway, but they are open
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The Yukon government is desperately looking for money from the United States to help maintain the north Alaska Highway. Since
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Work on the Tlicho all-season road to Whati will begin this fall and is expected to be completed by 2022.
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Scientists working in Canada’s North are getting more funds to study thawing permafrost and its effects, especially when it comes
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Money in the latest budget that’s allocated to go to five shelters in the Northwest Territories will go a long
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Time and money has run out on this winter’s attempt to build an ice bridge across the Yukon River in
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Work on the Dawson City, Yukon, ice bridge has stopped after a snowcat went through the ice on the Yukon
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