Blog: The Arctic Council at a crossroads – Still, and again
The narrative of “the Arctic Council at a crossroads” has been prominent since at least 2008, and probably before. It
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Special Features
More than 100 new nukes in northern waters
Latest data exchange on nuclear weapons held by Russia and the United States shows the first Post-Soviet increase in numbers
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Finland’s Lapland tour industry gears up for busy holiday season
It may feel like summer just ended, but it’s only six weeks until the Christmas flight season begins in northern
Read moreBiologists spot huge gathering of walruses in Arctic Alaska
With floating ice sparse in the Chukchi Sea, an estimated 35,000 walruses were found crowded onto a beach near the
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How Should U.S. Lead in the Arctic?
Arctic experts and policymakers gathered at a Washington, D.C. think-tank today to focus on how the U.S. might wield its
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Bethel, Alaska residents speak out against marijuana legalization
BETHEL – A small, mainly anti-pot crowd on Monday filled the tiny Legislative Information Office here to put on the
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Kara Sea oil discovered a week before sanctions hit
Exxon and Rosneft have found oil at the first well drilled, but the unanswered question is how to exploit it
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Thunderstorms in Arctic Sweden cost mining company
The intense thunderstorms in Sweden this summer cost mining company LKAB hundreds of millions of kroner, due to forced standstills.
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Blog: With Keystone XL delay, Alberta, Canada looks North
Keystone XL, the $5.4 billion, 1,897-kilometer pipeline that would transport crude oil from the Alberta tar sands across the border
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Ice-Blog: The Arctic on the UN agenda
To those of us who deal with the Arctic on a regular basis, the significance of the melting ice for
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Secret nuclear cargo transported along coast of Norway
Despite a cold political climate, the U.S. and Russia cooperated on a secret September voyage with highly-enriched uranium from Poland
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Ice-Blog: UN Climate Chief on New York summit
Your Ice Blogger has been busy with the New York climate summit around the corner. I was delighted to read
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Sami leader harassed by police on way to UN conference
Valentina Sovkina was on her way from Lovozero on Russia’s Kola Peninsula to the UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples.
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Finland’s president dismisses claims of Russian ‘appeasement’
Finland’s president Sauli Niinistö has refuted claims by the leader of the Green League, Ville Niinistö, that the government’s approval
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NASA projects tracking changes in Alaska’s glaciers and Arctic atmosphere
The U.S. agency that explores outer space is also probing another frontier — the rapidly warming climate in Alaska and
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