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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 Norway Politics Politics (Norway) 

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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Blog – Why are we so afraid of China, even in the North?

Timo Koivurova
Posted: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 11:09 — Last Updated: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 09:51
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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

Mia Bennett
Posted: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 14:53 — Last Updated: Friday, October 18, 2019 at 14:05
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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

Mia Bennett
Posted: Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 09:22 — Last Updated: Friday, September 27, 2019 at 13:34
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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

Ingrid A. Medby
Posted: Friday, September 13, 2019 at 10:08 — Last Updated: Friday, September 13, 2019 at 16:20
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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

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Thursday, September 12, 2019 at 10:05 — Last Updated: Friday, September 13, 2019 at 16:21
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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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