Blog – The Arctic shipping route no one is talking about
By mid-century – and perhaps by 2035 – a Transpolar Passage will open across the Arctic Ocean via the North
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Blog – Pursuing polar studies from below the Arctic Circle
Last Friday marked the first week of spring, which means that it was also Polar Week! It was also the
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Blog – Kirkenes: The company town that became a Chinatown for five days
The town of Kirkenes, Norway is a little northern melting pot. It sits at the on the country’s Arctic edge,
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Blog – I was angry with the media for how it covered the Arctic
I was angry with the media for a long time. Many newspapers and news sites told us that there was
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Blog – How a Norwegian coastal ferry service went global
It’s been a while since I wrote, and I have a lot of catching up to do. Aside from scrambling
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Blog – Snapshots from up and down the Arctic in 2018
In 2018, conferences, workshops, and meetings brought me to seven of the eight countries with territory north of the Arctic
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Blog – 2018: Recapping the year in the Arctic
Planet Earth has completed another rotation around the sun, which has now set on the Arctic for the next three
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Blog – South Korea, an unlikely polar pioneer, hosts Arctic conference
Over the weekend, as the temperature in Seoul plunged to -12°C, Koreans bundled up in the long puffy black parkas
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Blog – How should we measure Arctic identity?
An intriguing survey on Arctic issues was published earlier this month by The Arctic Studio, a research organization based in
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Blog – When a town in Arctic Norway transforms into “the world’s northernmost Chinatown”
Sitting on the rocky coastline of the slate gray Barents Sea, the hilly city of Kirkenes, Norway is located at
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Blog – After Arctic Circle conference unfolds in Iceland, American tourists and soldiers head north
Two weeks ago, Arctic Circle, the region’s largest annual gathering, took place for the fifth year in a row in Iceland’s
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Blog – When the ice melts, what will happen to Arctic tourism?
Glimmering aurora have returned to light up northern night skies, meaning that summer is drawing to a close. With these
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Blog – Controversy over Greenland airports shows China still unwelcome in the Arctic
Earlier this week, it was announced that in exchange for 700 million Danish kroner ($109 million), Greenland would allow Denmark
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Blog – Reflecting on Arctic development while trekking across Central Asia
Nearly five years ago, I wrote a post comparing the Arctic and Central Asia. Though at first glance the regions don’t seem
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Blog – Kirovsk, the town at the end of the Soviet rainbow
Thousands of years ago on Russia’s Kola Peninsula, retreating glaciers shaved off the pointy peaks of the Khibiny Mountains. The
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