Blog – Companies ill-prepared to respect indigenous rights in Arctic, study finds
With the temperature at the top of the world rising and demand for natural resources accelerating, the extractive industry is
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Author: Mia Bennett
Blog – Chasing electric blue icebergs in Greenland
Last week, China’s sole icebreaker, Xue Long (Snow Dragon), completed its first voyage through the Northwest Passage. The Ukrainian-built vessel
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Blog – Tales of the unexpected: Inuit shepherds in Greenland
In Greenland, there’s a joke that if you go out to dinner with a Greenlandic people, there’s five people: mom,
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Blog – Trudeau’s Yukon plan: funding another road to nowhere
The past few years have been good for the Canadian road-building industry in the Arctic. In 2011, former Prime Minister
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Blog: In the Arctic Ocean, an Alaska Native corporation seeks to fill void left by Shell
When Shell aborted its $7 billion Arctic drilling efforts in the Beaufort Sea in September 2015, environmentalists breathed a sigh
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Blog: Explosions in the Arctic: mining gravel in Alaska
On the Fourth of July in the United States of America, fireworks and explosions galore. That means the time is ripe
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Blog: China’s Belt and Road initiative moves into Arctic
When China convened its Belt and Road Forum in Beijing last month, most of the attention focused on the initiative’s
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Blog: China, Japan and South Korea hold dialogue on the Arctic
A little over four years ago, as several Asian countries were vying for observer status in the Arctic Council, there
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Blog: Drilling in Arctic Refuge to close deficit? Let’s be real.
The White House’s budget will be delivered to Congress today. Called “A New Foundation for American Greatness,” the 62-page document
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Blog: The last few bipolar months of the U.S. Arctic Council chairmanship are ending
Two years ago in Iqaluit, Canada’s “heart of the Arctic,” the U.S. took over the chairmanship of the Arctic Council,
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Blog: Obituary for an Arctic river
I haven’t been posting a lot lately, and that’s because I’ve had a hectic schedule over the past month with fieldwork
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Blog: Trump’s budget could cause infrastructure crisis for rural and native Alaskans
U.S. President Donald Trump released his proposed budget, and the reaction has been swift and scathing. Rural communities, healthcare, the environment,
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Blog: Why Republicans’ Russia-envy in the Arctic is misplaced
A flurry of headlines have recently declared that Russia is kicking its militarization efforts in the Arctic into high gear.
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Blog: Ceci n’est pas une pipe: The surrealism of Russia’s three new Arctic pipelines
On January 18, Russia’s state owned gas company, Gazprom, opened a new pipeline stretching from the frozen Bovanenkovskoye gas field
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Blog: Arctic 2016 in photos
In 2016, I traveled to far-flung parts of the Arctic I’d never before visited. I spent over two months of
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