Blog: The Canadian Arctic Council Chairmanship – Lots of Leadership, No Followers
This week Canada surprised the Arctic Council by replacing its Chair of the Senior Arctic Officials, Patrick Borbey, halfway into
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Blog: China-Russia gas deal creates Arctic winners and losers
The $400 billion, 30-year China-Russia gas deal signed in Shanghai on May 21 has sparked a lot of excitement about
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Ice-Blog: Arctic birds breeding earlier
Migratory birds that breed in the Arctic are starting to nest earlier in spring because the snow melt is occurring
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Blog: Hamburg & the Northern Sea Route
The port city of Hamburg, Germany actually lies 130 kilometers inland from the North Sea. Despite this distance, it has
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Ice-Blog: Climate talks at glacial place?
Who would have believed it? It has been a long time since the routine UN climate talks in Bonn aroused
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Blog: Interactive atlas shows Inuit trails
Last week, a new atlas was released documenting the network of pan-Inuit trails crisscrossing the Arctic from Alaska to Greenland.
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Ice-Blog: UN Bonn climate talks
The delegates to the UN climate meeting currently taking place here in Bonn are receiving an urgent appeal from polar
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Ice-Blog: Time for a “new environmentalism”?
What are these cuddly marmots doing on an exhibition stand at Green Week, Europe’s biggest environment policy gathering, being held
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Blog: Reflections on 8th international congress of Arctic social sciences
In the logging town-turned service center of Prince George, British Columbia, close to 500 people descended upon the University of
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Ice-Blog: Keeping Greenland in focus
Two interesting publications relating to Greenland caught my eye over the past few days. But it has not proved easy
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Blog: UK has Arctic on radar in national maritime security strategy
The United Kingdom is a country with longstanding interests in the Arctic. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English whalers
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Ice-Blog: Ukraine’s shadow on Arctic cooperation
When a meeting of the Senior Arctic Officials of the Arctic Council scheduled to take place in Canada in June
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Interview: CBC North journalist finds home in Canadian Arctic
“If you think Iqaluit is the North, you have another thing coming.” So some folks in this Canadian city of
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Ice-Blog: Cryosphere in Crisis?
You can’t say the latest research results on the thinning of the West Antarctic ice sheet didn’t make the media.
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Blog: Reindeer migration (by boat!) in Arctic Norway (VIDEO)
Norway’s public broadcaster NRK has a spectacular timelapse video up on their website showing reindeer migrating to an Arctic island….
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