The Arctic Century

Anchorage's Largest Homeless Camps Set to Be Cleared
2025-06-02
Anchorage police and municipal workers are set to clear out two of the city's largest homeless camps next month, as notices went up Friday in Mountain View's Davis Park and the nearby snow dump.
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Iceland Wants More NATO Amid Growing Weapons-Related Violence
On 28 May, Prime Minister Kristrún Forstadóttir and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met in Reykjavik to discuss military and political cooperation in the face of a changing threat landscape in the Arctic.
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Four Asian and European Nations Will Compete for Building Icebreakers for the US
This year, the ambitious US plan to build a fleet of icebreakers and commercial ice-class vessels, gas carriers and oil tankers may take shape.
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Denmark Will Seek to Unite Eight Arctic Countries
2025-05-28
Denmark will focus on young indigenous peoples and mental health during its chairmanship of the Arctic Council.
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US Lures Wary Japanese into Country's Most Expensive Gas Project
The Trump administration has asked Japanese companies and others to participate in the LNG development project in Alaska. It's one of the projects that is likely to be brought up in the tariff negotiations between Japan and the US, but there are reasons why private companies can't just say no.
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Canada's Arctic Strategy
In December 2024, Canada's Department of National Defence published its latest white paper about its Arctic strategy, named Our North: Strong and Free...
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Finnish Troops Future Readiness to Defend All of Europe at Unknown Cost
Finland is preparing to place ground forces, consisting mainly of reservists, on NATO's fully deployable readiness.
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NATO's Arctic Military Exercises
In recent years, the Arctic has come to be seen by NATO as a structured operational space, and no longer just as a remote and marginal area—what it was for much of the Cold War...
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