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Author: Mia Bennett

Business Business (Iceland) Iceland 

BLOG – In just 20 years, ships could cross an open Arctic Ocean

Mia Bennett
Posted: Friday, September 11, 2020 at 14:49 — Last Updated: Friday, September 11, 2020 at 15:06
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Sailing via the North Pole was impossible until the 1950s. Now, it is all but inevitable. Even if all greenhouse

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Blog Business Business (USA) USA 

Blog – To stop coronavirus, Arctic communities took matters into their own hands. Can it last?

Mia Bennett
Posted: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 at 17:09
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Across the Arctic each summer, thousands of tourists and scientists descend upon the region’s villages, research stations, and glaciers. This

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Denmark/Greenland Geopolitics (Denmark/Greenland) Politics 

Blog – With $12.1 million US offer to Greenland, America is playing softball in the Arctic

Mia Bennett
Posted: Monday, May 18, 2020 at 08:00
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Despite lacking Arctic territory, Beijing is outcompeting Washington, D.C. in the region. Greenland may be one place where the U.S.

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Blog Business Business (Sweden) General Sweden 

Blog – Kiruna, an Arctic Swedish town built and relocated for mining

Mia Bennett
Posted: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 13:50 — Last Updated: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 14:42
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The Arctic mining town of Kiruna, Sweden has a mythical allure to it. The community of 18,000 people built its

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Blog Environment Environment (Iceland) General Iceland 

Blog – Geoengineering climate fixes popular at Arctic Circle assembly

Mia Bennett
Posted: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 14:53 — Last Updated: Friday, October 18, 2019 at 14:05
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At Arctic Circle 2019, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, it seemed, had not gotten the memo: Oil is out,

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Blog Canada Environment Environment (Denmark/Greenland) General 

Blog – Documentary will show climate change through eyes of pioneering scientist

Mia Bennett
Posted: Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 09:22 — Last Updated: Friday, September 27, 2019 at 13:34
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British filmmaker Cal Murphy Barton is producing a documentary about a scientist who has witnessed five decades of Arctic sea

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Blog Business Business (Denmark/Greenland) Denmark/Greenland General News 

Blog – Greenland isn’t for sale, but it is for lease

Mia Bennett
Posted: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 at 14:33 — Last Updated: Friday, September 13, 2019 at 16:21
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Even if global norms allowed America to buy Greenland, the neat redrawing of national borders and flag-raising that would follow

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Blog Culture Culture (Iceland) General Iceland 

Blog – Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson lights up London’s Tate Modern

Mia Bennett
Posted: Tuesday, August 13, 2019 at 05:00 — Last Updated: Friday, August 16, 2019 at 11:57
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Olafur Eliasson’s show at London’s Tate Modern passes Iceland’s landscape through a glass prism, refracting it into a world of

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Blog General News Society Society (USA) USA 

Blog – In 1969, humans reached the moon – and the North Pole, too

Mia Bennett
Posted: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 12:25 — Last Updated: Friday, July 19, 2019 at 15:48
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Few people realize that a mere 101 days before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their fateful steps, mankind officially

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Blog Canada General Politics Politics (Canada) 

Blog – Scotland, a gateway to the Arctic?

Mia Bennett
Posted: Friday, July 12, 2019 at 09:22 — Last Updated: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 13:20
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Scotland’s islands, particularly Orkney, are capitalizing on their historic northern linkages both offensively, to take advantage of new economic opportunities

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Blog General Geopolitics (USA) Politics USA 

Blog – U.S. ups rhetoric in Arctic, but not its game

Mia Bennett
Posted: Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at 11:05 — Last Updated: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 13:21
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American rhetoric is turning up the temperature in the Arctic while not even really putting its money where its mouth

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Blog Canada General Geopolitics (Canada) News Politics 

Blog – At Arctic Circle Forum, China shows Arctic geopolitics are above Mike Pompeo’s pay grade

Mia Bennett
Posted: Monday, May 13, 2019 at 16:35 — Last Updated: Friday, May 17, 2019 at 12:47
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s swashbuckling fantasies aside, geopolitical competition in the contemporary Arctic is not about who controls

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Blog Canada General Geopolitics (Canada) News Politics 

Blog – The Arctic shipping route no one is talking about

Mia Bennett
Posted: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at 09:23 — Last Updated: Friday, April 26, 2019 at 11:55
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By mid-century – and perhaps by 2035 – a Transpolar Passage will open across the Arctic Ocean via the North

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Blog Culture Culture (USA) General News USA 

Blog – Pursuing polar studies from below the Arctic Circle

Mia Bennett
Posted: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 08:54
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Last Friday marked the first week of spring, which means that it was also Polar Week! It was also the

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Blog General News Society 

Blog – Kirkenes: The company town that became a Chinatown for five days

Mia Bennett
Posted: Friday, March 8, 2019 at 11:06 — Last Updated: Friday, March 8, 2019 at 15:31
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The town of Kirkenes, Norway is a little northern melting pot. It sits at the on the country’s Arctic edge,

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