Blog: Arctic Sweden—Kiruna pivots from underground to outer space
On January 13, 2023, mainland Europe’s first spaceport opened in the Swedish Arctic city of Kiruna–better known for iron ore
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Baffinland set to head back to Nunavut communities for talks
‘There has to be that constant dialogue, in order to fully work together in collaboration,’ says Paul Quassa Baffinland Iron
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Finnish Defence Forces to use biofuels on land, at sea
Solar panels have also been installed on Defence Forces facilities all the way up into Lapland, where one building at
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Blog: Life on an Arctic farm, interrupted only by Norwegian jets
This summer, I found myself on a farm in the Norwegian Arctic solely in charge of 16 horses, 12 goats,
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Chinese shippers shun Russian Arctic waters
For the first time in several years, China’s state shipping company COSCO is not not sailing on the Northern Sea
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Blog: The Arctic in a warming world
The far north has long been considered a barometer for the measurement of global climate change, including via phenomenon such
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Blog: Shetland races to build a sub-Arctic spaceport
On the United Kingdom’s northernmost island, the new space race is getting under way. AAs part of my lifelong odyssey
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Blog: A line drawn here … Arctic boundaries shift in a time of conflict
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine entered its fifth month, and with little sign of a resolution, Arctic governments in
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Blog: The US is using a mine in Greenland to counter China
The U.S. has offered $657 million to develop the world’s northernmost mine in Greenland to counter China. Is it worth
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Blog: UN experts talk climate in Bonn amidst Arctic warming, Ukraine invasion
Same procedure as every year? While the Russian aggression in Ukraine continues to dominate the headlines and COVID simmers steadily
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Blog: The geopolitical collapse of the Arctic
Hint: It’s not because of climate change. Five years ago, the Economist published an article headlined, “The Arctic as it is known today is
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Blog: Polar opposites? Greenland’s new coalition government
Last month, the Government of Greenland announced [in Danish] a radical change in its makeup. This was the departure of one
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Blog: Arctic SOS to Climate COP26 – urgent action needed to avert weather catastrophe
With the final countdown running for the UN climate conference, COP26, in Glasgow, the mood is shifting between desperate hope
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Blog – Hot times ahead as oil-fuelled Russia chairs the Arctic Council and polar warming picks up pace
The bi-annual Ministerial Meeting of the Arctic Council in Reykjavik, Iceland, on May 20th attracted a lot of media interest – not least
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Blog: The Arctic Council is back on track … or is that a rut?
What a relief this would have been to the old hands in the Arctic Council family. After three successive dramatic
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