Blog – Franklin expedition: How a doomed Arctic voyage presaged transpolar flights
Last month, I flew from Los Angeles to Hong Kong on one of those sleek jets that fuse heaven and
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Author: Mia Bennett
Blog – South Korea, an unlikely polar pioneer, hosts Arctic conference
Over the weekend, as the temperature in Seoul plunged to -12°C, Koreans bundled up in the long puffy black parkas
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Blog – When a town in Arctic Norway transforms into “the world’s northernmost Chinatown”
Sitting on the rocky coastline of the slate gray Barents Sea, the hilly city of Kirkenes, Norway is located at
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Blog – After Arctic Circle conference unfolds in Iceland, American tourists and soldiers head north
Two weeks ago, Arctic Circle, the region’s largest annual gathering, took place for the fifth year in a row in Iceland’s
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Blog – When the ice melts, what will happen to Arctic tourism?
Glimmering aurora have returned to light up northern night skies, meaning that summer is drawing to a close. With these
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Blog – Controversy over Greenland airports shows China still unwelcome in the Arctic
Earlier this week, it was announced that in exchange for 700 million Danish kroner ($109 million), Greenland would allow Denmark
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Blog – Reflecting on Arctic development while trekking across Central Asia
Nearly five years ago, I wrote a post comparing the Arctic and Central Asia. Though at first glance the regions don’t seem
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Blog – Kirovsk, the town at the end of the Soviet rainbow
Thousands of years ago on Russia’s Kola Peninsula, retreating glaciers shaved off the pointy peaks of the Khibiny Mountains. The
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Blog – Monchegorsk, Russia: a mining town with green aspirations
Murmansk, the largest city in the entire Arctic, is having a makeover. At the restaurant on the top floor of
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Blog – Walking around Murmansk under the midnight sun
Last week, I recounted my overland journey with thirty-some colleagues from Kirkenes, Norway to Murmansk, Russia. The five-hour road trip
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Blog – Smelters, huskies, and fish pies: the Arctic road from Norway to Russia
On a gray June day, a group of thirty-odd Arctic scholars and artists participating in a traveling symposium called the
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Blog – Sámi school preserves reindeer herders’ heritage with help of internet
In my previous post, I wrote about how a Concorde jet and Chinese tourists have irrevocably changed Lapland in the
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Blog – In Santa’s hometown, are tourism and a railway threatening Sámi culture?
Located just a few kilometers to the south of the Arctic Circle, the unassuming Finnish city of Rovaniemi does not
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Blog – Underwater tunnels revolutionize transport in the Faroe Islands
Fifty-five million years ago, the Northeast Atlantic Ocean opened up between Europe and Greenland, pushing the two landmasses apart. In
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Blog – How Northwestern Inuit led construction of Canada’s highway to Arctic Ocean
Last November, Canada’s first highway to the Arctic Ocean opened. When shovels broke ground on the all-weather road in January
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