New Arctic R&D center in Alaska
The Department of Homeland Security has launched a new research and development center in Alaska, looking to a future in which sophisticated algorithms
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Speed, politics & TransCanada: Week in Review
On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this
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Canadian rangers program to be reviewed
Some alarm bells are sounding over the health of Canada’s northern patrollers. Canada’s Arctic is a vast and very scarcely
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Winter speed limits take effect in Finland
A new study from the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland shows that Finland’s policy of enforcing lower speed limits
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2015 Alaskan wildfire tally below normal
So far this year, about 78,000 acres have burned in 280 fires in Alaska. That may sound like a lot,
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Polar Code approval is timely for busy Bering Strait
The Bering Strait, the narrow chokepoint between the Pacific and Arctic Oceans, has been a watery crossroads for millennia. Skin boats
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Winter speed limits coming into force in Finland
Lower speed limits on roads and highways will take effect nationwide no later than by this coming Friday. Lower speed
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Alaska: Series of missteps led to fatal crash of ACE flight 51
The National Transportation Safety Board amassed a file of more than 300 pages of documents while investigating the fatal March
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Prison for bomb threat on Norwegian plane
On Tuesday, the asylum-seeking man who made a bomb threat against a Norwegian airlines plane this spring, forcing the plane
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Missing in Alaska without a trace
The Nabesna Ranger District of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve is an easy place to get lost. Sprawling east
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`Don’t feed wild boars,’ says Swedish report
The feeding of wild boars should be banned during the summer months to help control the animal’s growing population, according
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In Alaska bear encounters, could old advice be completely wrong?
Sometimes you have to wonder if the efforts that go into trying to teach people how to handle bear encounters
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Analysis: Myths muddle effort to carve a road through Alaska refuge
The guano is piling up at the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, but it’s not just from the birds.
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First Air has ‘taken definite lessons’ from deadly Arctic plane crash
First Air says it has already made changes following a deadly plane crash two and a half years ago. “When
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Legislators draft Alaska drone policy
With the Federal Aviation Administration considering Alaska as a drone test site, lawmakers are drafting a policy for their use
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