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City in northwestern Canada to get new downtown transit station

26 July 201926 July 2019 CBC News 0 Comments buses, Infrastructure, transportation, Transports, Whitehorse, Yukon

More than $16.5 million in funding from the Canadian and Yukon governments will mean upgrades to Whitehorse’s public transportation system

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Canada’s transportation safety board to investigate passenger ship grounding in Arctic

28 August 201828 August 2018 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments economy, Nunavut, shipping, tourism, transportation, TSB

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has sent a team of investigators to the Arctic to investigate last week’s

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Hot weather continues to cause problems for Sweden’s railways

9 August 20189 August 2018 Radio Sweden 0 Comments heatwave, railways, transportation, weather

Buckled train tracks, fires and thunderstorms are causing major problems for the country’s railways, Thursday. Intense heat is causing the

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Man survives being struck by a plane on sea ice north of Alaska

30 March 20183 April 2018 Casey Grove, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Arctic Submarine Laboratory, Bald Mountain Air Service, Beaufort Sea, de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter, Deadhorse, National Transportation Safety Board, transportation

A man survived being struck by a plane that was taking off from sea ice 140 miles north of Deadhorse

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Russia: Better weather forecasts needed to increase Arctic shipping

6 March 20186 March 2018 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Arctic Forum, Bering Strait, Gulf of Ob, icebreakers, Ministry of Natural Resources, Norilsk Nickel, Northern Sea Route, Novaya Zemlya, Roshydromet, Sabetta, shipping, transportation, Yamal LNG

A quickly growing number of ships are confronting the thick ice and tough climatic conditions on Russia’s Northern Sea Route,

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Putin wants a bigger, stronger, wealthier Russian Arctic

1 March 20181 March 2018 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Barents Sea, Dudinka, economy, Kara Sea, Murmansk, natural resources, Northern Sea Route, Novatek, Rosatom, Rosatomflot, State Nuclear Energy Corporation, Taymyr peninsula, transportation, Yamal, Yamal LNG

Delivering his state-of-the-nation speech to the parliament on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin highlighted the importance of speeding up the

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Flights to Lapland help Finnair triple 2017 profits

16 February 2018 Yle News 0 Comments air carriers, Cuba, Finnair, flights, India, Lapland, transportation

Finnish flag carrier Finnair said its full-year profit increased threefold to 170 million euros last year as more passengers took

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Blog – China & the Arctic: Why the focus on international law matters

13 February 2018 Timo Koivurova 0 Comments Arctic Council, Arctic policy, Arctic Silk Road, economy, environment, International law, natural resources, transportation

There’s been a flurry of reaction to China’s recently released white paper on the Arctic, the first such policy

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Millions more flights from Swedish airports despite environmental toll

9 February 2018 Yle News 0 Comments aviation, climate change, environment, pollution, Swedavia, tourism, transportation

Sweden’s airports have seen almost three million passengers take flights in January – higher than the same month last year,

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Murmansk and Arkhangelsk fail to attract foreign cruise vessels

8 February 20188 February 2018 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Arkhangelsk, Barents Sea, cruise ships, Murmansk, tourism, transportation, White Sea

A new 206-meters long quay and newly renovated port facilities in the central harbor of Murmansk will be far from

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Could an underwater tunnel connect Estonia to Finland by train?

7 February 2018 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Baltic Sea, Estonia, FinEst Link, Harju County Government, Helsinki, Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council, Rail Baltica, Tallinn, transportation

It would connect the heart of Europe with the Arctic region, Finnish minister Anne Berner says in a presentation of

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Roads deadly for reindeer in Arctic Sweden

24 January 2018 Radio Sweden 0 Comments Arctic environment, climate change, Lapland, Sami, transportation, wildlife

Twice as many reindeer have been killed on the roads in northern Sweden this month compared to the same period

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Alaska’s first, electric public transit bus ready to hit Anchorage streets

17 January 201817 January 2018 Casey Grove, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments climate change, Electric vehicules, emissions, public transport, recycling, transportation

Alaska’s first electric public transit bus is set to begin carrying passengers in Anchorage starting Tuesday. Among other things,

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Helsinki Airport warns passengers of snowstorm delays

12 December 2017 Yle News 0 Comments Helsinki, transportation, weather

Passengers looking to travel through Helsinki Airport have been warned to brace for delays on Tuesday as a major snowstorm

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Blizzard expected over Finland on Monday

11 December 2017 Yle News 0 Comments Helsinki Airport, transportation, weather

A storm is to arrive on Finland’s southern and south-western coasts around midnight, bringing more than 15 cm of snow

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