Blog: Senate energy committee hearing exposes irony of Arctic opportunities
Last week, the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on Arctic opportunities to assess how the country
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Special Features
Proposed cuts to public broadcasting funding rile rural Alaska radio listeners
JUNEAU — Facing the prospect of possibly devastating cuts proposed by a legislative committee, fans of public radio and television are
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Arctic sea ice ‘thinning dramatically’, study finds
The Arctic sea ice is thinning at a steadier and faster rate than researchers previously thought, a new study based
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U.S. needs Arctic military strategy says defense secretary
U.S. secretary of defense, Ash Carter, affirmed on Tuesday the need for a U.S. military strategy for the Arctic as
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Sanctions against Russia have cost ExxonMobil $1bn
The American oil major lost big money after cooperation with Rosneft in the Arctic, Black Sea and Western Siberia was
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Blog: China – Mining & housing in the Arctic
Last week, I reviewed China’s past year in the Arctic. In its first full year as an Arctic Council observer, a
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Targeted Arctic lease sales could ward off conflicts says U.S. agency
A fresh new five-year plan for oil and gas leasing in the nation’s outer continental shelf features what federal officials hope will
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Blog: China’s year in the Arctic
Thursday marked the first day of the Year of the Sheep (or ram or goat, depending on how you translate it).
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Introduce carbon tax on meat and flights say Swedish researchers
The amount of carbon dioxide emissions within Swedish borders has decreased, but the total amount of emissions caused by Swedish
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Alaska policy, oil exports and moose threats – Arctic week in Review
On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories on Eye on the Arctic this
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Arctic train line in Nordics would open up polar potential
A railway line from northern Finland to the Norwegian Arctic coast will open a new base for industrial development in
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Norway’s oil exports plunge to half
Falling oil price hits Norway hard. Exported crude oil for NOK 13.2 billion (€1.54 billion) in January, less than half
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Four nuclear submarines under construction in Russia’s Far North
Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk outside Arkhangelsk has full order books for 2015. For the first time since the fall of
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U.S. interior secretary vows to work on solutions for climate-threatened Alaska village
KIVALINA — In a whirlwind visit to Northwest Alaska on an unseasonably warm day, U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on
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Climate change a threat to moose in Sweden
Rising temperatures are a threat to Sweden’s moose (or European elk) population, writes the newspaper Kvällsposten. If global warming continues,
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