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Blog: Arctic Sweden—Kiruna pivots from underground to outer space

Mia Bennett
Posted: Monday, January 23, 2023 at 08:55 — Last Updated: Monday, January 23, 2023 at 09:02
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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

Amy Tucker, CBC
Posted: Monday, November 21, 2022 at 09:02
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‘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

Yle News
Posted: Friday, November 18, 2022 at 15:50
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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

Mia Bennett
Posted: Wednesday, September 7, 2022 at 15:04
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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

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 24, 2022 at 08:45
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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

Marc Lanteigne
Posted: Monday, August 15, 2022 at 15:07 — Last Updated: Monday, August 15, 2022 at 16:29
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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

Mia Bennett
Posted: Monday, August 1, 2022 at 16:08
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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

Marc Lanteigne
Posted: Monday, July 18, 2022 at 11:34 — Last Updated: Monday, July 18, 2022 at 11:38
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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

Mia Bennett
Posted: Monday, June 27, 2022 at 15:48
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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

Irene Quaile
Posted: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 13:39
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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

Mia Bennett
Posted: Friday, May 27, 2022 at 08:30 — Last Updated: Friday, May 27, 2022 at 08:32
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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

Marc Lanteigne
Posted: Monday, May 2, 2022 at 08:30
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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

Irene Quaile
Posted: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 at 10:54
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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

Irene Quaile
Posted: Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 12:01
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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?

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 15:50
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What a relief this would have been to the old hands in the Arctic Council family. After three successive dramatic

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