All eyes on China as cargo vessel takes to the north
On August 8, the Chinese cargo ship Yong Sheng set sail from Dalian, a port city in northeastern China. The Hong Kong-flagged
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Author: Mia Bennett
As the Puffin Flies: The UK and the Arctic
The Farne Islands, England lie at 55 degrees N. Off the coast of Northumberland, they’re not too far from Newcastle,
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Alaska and Arctic Shipping: Boon or Boondoggle?
At the July 16-18 Symposium on the Impacts of an Ice-Diminishing Arctic held in Washington, D.C., Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski
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BLOG: The Shard Protest – Are environmentalists trampling indigenous views on Arctic development?
Just last year, protestors in Nunavut spoke out against the high cost of milk and other basic foodstuffs. But few
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Canadian to retrace 1913 Arctic expedition
A ship drops anchor in the Beaufort Sea, high in the Canadian Arctic. A group of scientists disembark to map
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East Asian Diplomacy in the Arctic
The chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Yu Zhengsheng, visited Finland, Sweden, and Denmark
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Two Arctic research institutes to open, while a third comes closer to reality
On the heels of the opening of the Arctic Council’s Permanent Secretariat in Tromsø, Norway, two new Arctic research centers
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Blog: Permanent Arctic Council Secretariat opens in Tromso, strengthening Norway’s position in Arctic
The Arctic Council, the most important multilateral organization in the circumpolar north, opened the offices for its permanent secretariat in
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The Contested Space of NATO in the Arctic
DefenseNews has a thought-provoking analysis of NATO’s announcement earlier this month that it had no plans to establish a direct
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Analysis: The Arctic Council’s Kiruna Vision
During the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Kiruna, Sweden last Wednesday, the body’s Secretariat released the “Vision for the Arctic”
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Asian States Admitted to Arctic Council, EU Forced to Wait, and Greenland Boycotts
Asia in, EU not yet China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, India and Italy have all been admitted as permanent observer
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Arctic Council Meeting May 15th: Who and What to Follow
Every two years, the Arctic Council (AC) Ministerial Meeting convenes in a city in the host country. The last meeting
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White House releases national Arctic strategy
“We in the lower forty-eight and Hawaii join Alaska’s residents in recognizing one simple truth that the Arctic is an amazing
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Blog: Is Maine the next near-Arctic state?
Yesterday, I mentioned in a blog post that Eimskip, the Icelandic shipping company, recently moved its North American hub from
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Blog: Iceland Election and the Arctic
On Saturday’s parliamentary elections in Iceland, two center-right parties seized power from the incumbent Social Democrats. Iceland Review states that the
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