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The number of recorded vessels making the voyage through the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia has nearly doubled over a four-year period, with 130 in 2009 and 250 in 2012. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch )

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Russia leads way in Bering Strait ship traffic

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Monday, July 15, 2013 at 09:36
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It’s a tale of two Arctic nations, written across the top of the globe, with one moving rapidly to develop

The town of Vardoe in Norway's Arctic. (Pierre-Henry Deshayes / AFP)

Norway plans broadband Internet in Arctic

The Associated Press
Posted: Friday, July 12, 2013 at 09:16
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STAVANGER, Norway — Norway may provide high-speed Internet in one of the few places on Earth where it’s not available:

The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Henry Larsen arrived in the inner part of Frobisher Bay late Wednesday morning to make way for two vessels — a tanker and a cargo ship. (CBC)

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Icebreaker arrives in Iqaluit, Nunavut to open Frobisher Bay

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, July 4, 2013 at 10:27
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The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Henry Larsen arrived at the inner part of Frobisher Bay in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory

The planned road will run from Parikkala, Eastern Finland, through the Russian Republic of Karelia. (Yle)

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Finns, Russians to build highway in Karelia

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at 08:52
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A group Finnish, Russian, and international investors plan to build a four-lane highway from Finland deep into Russia. The project,

Premier Darrell Dexter, right, and Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver shake hands at a news conference at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Oliver announced that Ottawa is raising the liability cap for companies operating in Atlantic Canada's offshore to one billion dollars under new proposed legislation. (Andrew Vaughan / The Canadian Press)

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Canada raising offshore liability cap to $1 billion in Arctic, Atlantic waters

The Canadian Press
Posted: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 15:50
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HALIFAX — The Canadian government is planning to introduce new rules to make drilling and production companies more accountable in

The Coast Guard shut down its Marine Communications and Traffic Service Centre in Inuvik after last season.(Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)

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Coast guard in Iqaluit, Nunavut to monitor entire Canadian Arctic

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 09:24
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This year all marine communication in Canada’s Arctic, including Canada’s western Arctic, will run through Iqaluit, the capital of Canada’s

The hamlet of Resolute is seen beyond two barges on the shore of Resolute Bay in 2011. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)

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Air monitors installed in Nunavut, Canada

CBC News
Posted: Friday, May 31, 2013 at 15:11
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Environment Canada has installed air quality monitors in two communities in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut to track the

The US Coast Guard Cutter Healy off the coast of Nome. (David Head, courtesy Alaska Dispatch)

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U.S. Coast Guard shifts Arctic operations west

Suzanna Caldwell, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Friday, May 17, 2013 at 13:38
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The U.S. Coast Guard unveiled a westward-leaning 2013 Arctic Shield operations plan Thursday, emphasizing its commitment to a region facing increased traffic

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Asian States Admitted to Arctic Council, EU Forced to Wait, and Greenland Boycotts

Mia Bennett
Posted: Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 11:30
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Asia in, EU not yet China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, India and Italy have all been admitted as permanent observer

Maine's place in the Arctic (Mia Bennett, 2013)

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Blog: Is Maine the next near-Arctic state?

Mia Bennett
Posted: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 13:44
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Yesterday, I mentioned in a blog post that Eimskip, the Icelandic shipping company, recently moved its North American hub from

The icebreakers Protector and Artemis. (Yle)

Business Finland

Icebreaker stuck in Finnish canal

Yle News
Posted: Friday, April 12, 2013 at 11:20
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The Saimaa canal, which connects eastern Finland to the Russian town of Vyborg, remains closed thanks to unusually thick ice

Su-Jou Kim is the head of STX Finland and STX Europe.(STX Europe, Yle)

Business Finland

STX launches Arctic vessel in Finland

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 15:03
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The head of the Korean shipbuilder STX’s European operations told Finland’s Yle News on Thursday that the company has no