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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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Blog: The Czech Republic goes for Arctic Council observer status

Marc Lanteigne
Posted: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 15:58 — Last Updated: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 10:03
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Last week, as part of the Virtual Dialogue series created by the Arctic Circle conference to offer an e-platform for policymakers and

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Blog – Pole to Pole: India’s Arctic White Paper

Marc Lanteigne
Posted: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 16:00
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India was one of the five Asian governments which were accepted by the Arctic Council as formal observers in 2013,

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Blog – 2021: Future doesn’t just happen – It’s what we make it

Irene Quaile
Posted: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 14:26 — Last Updated: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 14:38
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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

Irene Quaile
Posted: Thursday, December 3, 2020 at 13:12 — Last Updated: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 14:44
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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?

Marc Lanteigne
Posted: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 at 15:10
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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?

Marc Lanteigne
Posted: Friday, September 18, 2020 at 11:15 — Last Updated: Friday, September 18, 2020 at 11:29
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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?

Mia Bennett
Posted: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 at 17:09
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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

Irene Quaile
Posted: Friday, June 12, 2020 at 14:52 — Last Updated: Monday, June 15, 2020 at 09:26
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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

Mia Bennett
Posted: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 13:50 — Last Updated: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 14:42
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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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