Blog: NSR – Twinned development of shipping, oil
In December, a record heat wave was cascading through the Arctic at a time when snow and ice would normally
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Author: Mia Bennett
Blog: A year in the global Arctic
As 2015 draws to a close, it’s good to step back and take stock of the year that was. Digging
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Blog: Greenland pioneers Arctic tourism & mining
The world’s largest island has risen to the lofty ranks of Lonely Planet’s Top 10 countries to visit in 2016. This past October,
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Blog: Will COP21 turn down heat on Arctic?
The world’s leaders are meeting in Paris this week for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, generally known as
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Blog: Arctic Observing Open Science Meeting
Last week in Seattle, the Arctic Observing Open Science Meeting (AOOSM) convened for the first time in seven years. The meeting was
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Blog: Moscow, where polar bears stalk the streets?
This summer in Helsinki, I found token signs of the country’s Arctic identity, which I discussed in a post called “Finland: An
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Blog: Arctic like ‘discovering a new Africa,’ Iceland
The Arctic Circle Singapore Forum convened last week in the hot and hazy tropical megalopolis. The forum is an offshoot of the
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Blog: Mapping the Arctic’s future while erasing its past
Yesterday, Nature Climate Change published a new paper on mapping the future of the Arctic Ocean. The extent of open water
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Blog: Travelling to Arctic Russia by train
When most people think of Russian railroads, they think of the Trans-Siberian Railway. The world’s longest railroad extends east and west
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Blog: What does Trudeau win mean for Arctic?
On Monday, Liberal Member of Parliament Justin Trudeau swept to victory, ousting Conservative leader Stephen Harper after nine years in
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Blog: Arctic cruise industry expands
In August, just as the short polar cruising season was winding down to a close, I sat down in a canteen at Moscow
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Blog: The man with the mammoth bones
“It tastes like shoe leather. It’s good with ketchup, too.” That’s how John Reeves, a larger-than-life character in Alaska, described
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Blog: Reindeer, oil at Energy Summit
Across the vast tundra of northern Eurasia, nomadic indigenous peoples have herded reindeer for thousands of years. From the Sami in
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Blog: Arctic Energy Summit – Mood subdued after Shell news
It felt like somebody had died. Such was the mood on the frigid floor of the Arctic Energy Summit this
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Blog: Singapore and the Arctic
In Singapore, they say, there are two seasons: summer outdoors and winter indoors. On a hot and dangerously hazynight last
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