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Russia Teams with China for Development of the Northern Sea Route

The Maritime Executive 20 May 2024
The sea route runs along the Russian Arctic coast extending from the Kara Sea to the Bering Strait in the Far East ... In 2023, China moved approximately 1.5 million tons of crude oil from the Baltic Sea to China via the Arctic route.
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China’s shrinking Arctic ambitions are seen as confined largely to Russia

Voa News 17 May 2024
China’s interests in the region are believed to include fisheries, extraction of minerals and other resources, and a shorter sea route to Europe — all of which become more viable as the Arctic ice pack recedes in the face of climate change.
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What EU sanctions on Russian LNG would mean for global gas

Gulf-Times 14 May 2024
Ship-tracking data indicate that up to eight Russian cargoes are transshipped in Europe in some months, although the number varies and drops significantly during summer and autumn, when the Northern ...
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How Europe and Britain will stop Putin unleashing Armageddon: Interactive graphic shows nukes on...

The Daily Mail 14 May 2024
An area of renewed focus for military exercises this year is the Arctic, which could soon become a new frontier where world powers clash for strategic superiority, control of new trade routes and access to previously untapped natural resources.
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China's Arctic Ambitions are Less Grand Than They Appear

The Maritime Executive 13 May 2024
They depict the Arctic as providing a shorter shipping route than Suez and a treasure chest of resources, including oil, natural gas, fisheries and critical minerals ... Finally, a thaw in the Arctic will pose new challenges for China and other nations.
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Canada pitches in $76M for 'faster' German air-defence systems in Ukraine

Toronto Sun 11 May 2024
will be ready.Advertisement 2 ...Let us initiate a trilateral strategic maritime partnership, with a focus on securing sea lines of communication through the North Atlantic and Arctic. This can become a political route for many joint activities.” ... .
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Suspected pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden raises concerns about growing Somali piracy

Newsday 10 May 2024
The attack on the Marshall Islands-flagged Chrystal Arctic comes as Yemen's Houthi rebels have also been attacking ships traveling through the crucial waterway, the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait connecting them.
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Low water in N.W.T. means cargo heading to northern communities via Tuk, not Hay River

CBC 10 May 2024
Low water levels on the Mackenzie River are causing cargo shipments to use a different route to access northern communities, beginning in the Arctic Ocean ... .
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Canada pitches in $76 million for 'faster' German air-defence systems in Ukraine

North Shore News 10 May 2024
will be ready ... "Let us initiate a trilateral strategic maritime partnership, with a focus on securing sea lines of communication through the North Atlantic and Arctic. This can become a political route for many joint activities." ... .
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Before he was a famous Arctic explorer, he got kicked out of UND for helping ...

The Jamestown Sun 01 May 2024
He became a champion of the Arctic Circle, not as a frozen wasteland, but as a region with the potential to be the world’s meat basket and a route for air transport linking Europe, America and Asia.
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Russia Turns On World's First Satellite System for Arctic Monitoring

The Maritime Executive 29 Apr 2024
The new constellation provides round-the clock meteorological and environmental monitoring of the Arctic surface, including the Northern Sea Route ... With sea ice in the Arctic receding, shipping along the route is tipped to increase.
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NFL draft attendance record set with more than 700,000 fans attending the event in Detroit

Springfield News-Sun 27 Apr 2024
Michigan Gov ... “It has been a historic week here in the great city of Detroit,” Whitmer said Saturday ... Brown ... Franz Wagner scores 34, leads Magic to second straight rout of ... Alaska's Indigenous teens emulate ancestors' Arctic survival skills at.
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Russia builds new Asia trade routes to weaken sanctions over war

Deccan Herald 19 Apr 2024
And even as accelerating climate change melts Arctic ice to make the Northern Sea Route, or NSR, a more viable option, formidable logistical challenges remain along Russia’s remote ...
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Norway to build 383.8-feet-long, world’s largest hydrogen-powered ships

Interesting Engineering 19 Apr 2024
... on Norway’s longest ferry route and are tailored to operate in the waters of the Vestfjordstrekninga fjord in the Arctic Circle.
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This Seabird Makes The Longest Migration Each Year From Antarctica To The Arctic

IFL Science 18 Apr 2024
Each year, Arctic terns embark on a quest to follow the summer sun, traveling the length of the globe from the upper Northern Hemisphere to Antarctica in the planet’s deep south ... In 2016, an Arctic ...
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