Blog – 2021: Future doesn’t just happen – It’s what we make it
As I started work on this post, on December 23rd the thermometer here in north-western Germany showed 14° Celsius. I’ve
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Blog – Some gloom when it comes to Arctic climate, but also a promise of progress
On November 23, Germany’s public service broadcaster ARD dedicated its prime viewing time after the evening news to the Arctic,
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Blog – Arctic policy after the U.S. Election, damage control ahead?
To say that United States foreign policy has experienced major upheavals, many of which have caused far more harm than
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Blog – Whose Arctic security is it anyway?
The question of security in the Arctic has become more pronounced in the region of late. This is thought to
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Blog – To stop coronavirus, Arctic communities took matters into their own hands. Can it last?
Across the Arctic each summer, thousands of tourists and scientists descend upon the region’s villages, research stations, and glaciers. This
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Blog – Summer 2020: When the unprecedented becomes the precedent
It’s raining. I’m delighted. A strange response from a Scot who has fled the damp British climate. I write this
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Blog – Kiruna, an Arctic Swedish town built and relocated for mining
The Arctic mining town of Kiruna, Sweden has a mythical allure to it. The community of 18,000 people built its
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Blog – Why are we so afraid of China, even in the North?
Do you still remember how Japan was feared in the West? After World War II until the early 1990’s, the
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Blog – Geoengineering climate fixes popular at Arctic Circle assembly
At Arctic Circle 2019, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, it seemed, had not gotten the memo: Oil is out,
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Blog – Documentary will show climate change through eyes of pioneering scientist
British filmmaker Cal Murphy Barton is producing a documentary about a scientist who has witnessed five decades of Arctic sea
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Blog – Climate change education is not just about science
Tackling climate change requires radical transformations across society – from individual households to national governments, from the language we use
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Blog – Canada’s new Arctic policy doesn’t stick the landing
On Tuesday, just hours before the 2019 federal election was called, the Liberals released their long-awaited Arctic and Northern Policy
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Blog – Greenland isn’t for sale, but it is for lease
Even if global norms allowed America to buy Greenland, the neat redrawing of national borders and flag-raising that would follow
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Blog – Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson lights up London’s Tate Modern
Olafur Eliasson’s show at London’s Tate Modern passes Iceland’s landscape through a glass prism, refracting it into a world of
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Blog – Between Militarization and Disarmament: Constructing Peace in the Arctic
Since 2007 there has been ongoing debate as to the prospects for conflict in the Arctic. Realists contend that great
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