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Sailing via the North Pole was impossible until the 1950s. Now, it is all but inevitable. Even if all greenhouse
Read moreSailing via the North Pole was impossible until the 1950s. Now, it is all but inevitable. Even if all greenhouse
Read moreAcross the Arctic each summer, thousands of tourists and scientists descend upon the region’s villages, research stations, and glaciers. This
Read moreDespite lacking Arctic territory, Beijing is outcompeting Washington, D.C. in the region. Greenland may be one place where the U.S.
Read moreThe Arctic mining town of Kiruna, Sweden has a mythical allure to it. The community of 18,000 people built its
Read moreAt Arctic Circle 2019, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, it seemed, had not gotten the memo: Oil is out,
Read moreBritish filmmaker Cal Murphy Barton is producing a documentary about a scientist who has witnessed five decades of Arctic sea
Read moreEven if global norms allowed America to buy Greenland, the neat redrawing of national borders and flag-raising that would follow
Read moreOlafur Eliasson’s show at London’s Tate Modern passes Iceland’s landscape through a glass prism, refracting it into a world of
Read moreFew people realize that a mere 101 days before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their fateful steps, mankind officially
Read moreScotland’s islands, particularly Orkney, are capitalizing on their historic northern linkages both offensively, to take advantage of new economic opportunities
Read moreAmerican rhetoric is turning up the temperature in the Arctic while not even really putting its money where its mouth
Read moreU.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s swashbuckling fantasies aside, geopolitical competition in the contemporary Arctic is not about who controls
Read moreBy mid-century – and perhaps by 2035 – a Transpolar Passage will open across the Arctic Ocean via the North
Read moreLast Friday marked the first week of spring, which means that it was also Polar Week! It was also the
Read moreThe town of Kirkenes, Norway is a little northern melting pot. It sits at the on the country’s Arctic edge,
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