Blog:Put up or shut up with your Arctic Conflict Theory
The Arctic is on the verge of conflict; so the theory goes. Melting ice is uncovering a trove of riches,
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Special Features
US pushes ambitious Arctic Council goals
Just six months into the United States’ chairmanship of the Arctic Council, events have “already moved the ball forward enormously”
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How Inuk are you?… The Quiz
Inuvery or Inu-white? If you’re from outside the Canadian Arctic you’re probably reading those two words and thinking ‘What the ….?’ But if
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Final round of UN climate talks before Paris
The final round of official pre-Paris climate negotiations take place in Bonn next week with countries, including Sweden, still working
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U.S. cancels lease sales in Arctic Alaska
WASHINGTON — The Interior Department is canceling several lease sales for offshore Arctic drilling for the 2012-17 period, citing diminished interest.
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Politics, plastics and whaling: Arctic week in Review
On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this
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‘Iceberg’ sculpture captures ‘awe’ of Canadian Arctic
An arctic-themed sculpture inspired by icebergs is being mounted at the Canadian Museum of Nature in the nation’s capital, Ottawa.
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International community talks Arctic in Iceland
REYKJAVIK: The capital of Iceland stands in the Arctic limelight for the next couple of days, as people from around
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Alaska gives go-ahead to hunt ice-stranded muskox
If an Alaska resident spots a musk ox floating on ice sea ice adjacent to a western Alaska game management
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Blog: The Arctic Council’s Capacity Challenge
Last month the Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples’ Secretariat (IPS) put out a request for proposals (RFP) for the long-discussed funding
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IEA under-estimates renewable energy: expert
A professor at a Finnish University says that the International Energy Agency has consistently under-estimated the potential and future growth
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Female whalers break ‘ice ceiling’ in Arctic Alaska
For thousands of years, when Inupiat whaling crews hunted bowhead whales, the harpooners were traditionally men — until this generation, which has
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Shipping, science and Shell: Arctic week in Review
On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories from Eye on the Arctic this
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Ice, shipping and the Northwest Passage
New findings from on-site research have found that ice in the Northwest passage can still be too thick and ice
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Arctic no shipping rival to Suez: expert
As the ice retreats, Arctic shipping is expected to increase. But if your idea of “Arctic shipping” is cargo carriers
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