Will Sweden be 1st fossil-free welfare state?
Addressing the United Nation’s General Assembly on Saturday, Swedish Prime Minster Stefan Löfven said his nation would work toward becoming one
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Special Features
Owners fire BarentsObserver editor
They first refused to give the newspaper editorial freedom, today they followed up with the dismissal of Editor Thomas Nilsen.
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Alaska scientist teaches Church about climate
Glenn Juday, a devout Roman Catholic and an ecologist, had been working on climate education within the Roman Catholic Church
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Russia-Norway disagreements stop bay clean-up
Finnmark Governor insists installation of new navigation marks along Russia’s heavily militarized Kola Peninsula coast must be completed before allowing
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Address Arctic on campaign trail says Nunavut
The premier of Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut is calling on Canada’s political parties to clarify their positions on
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The new face of climate change?
German tourists aboard a cruise through the Hinlopen Strait in Svalbard this summer were approaching a yellow dot on an ice-floe,
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Permafrost thaw to cost global economy trillions
Permafrost may be mostly invisible underground, but the consequences of its thawing will be anything but. That’s according to a
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Scientists race to understand thawing permafrost
FAIRBANKS — Until recently, climate models, which predict everything from sea level rise to temperature increase, have largely ignored or glossed over permafrost,
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U.S. military could return to Iceland
Keflavik Air Base outside Reykjavik could once again become base for U.S. military, nearly ten years after the last forces
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Blog: Chinese naval ships near Aleutians
A few days ago, the U.S. Navy reported that it had detected five Chinese naval ships near the Aleutian Islands.
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Norway visa rules worry indigenous peoples
Andrey Vokuev in Naryan-Mar, Russia, fears for the cooperation between indigenous peoples. Next week, applicants from the Nenets tundra will
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What Obama’s Arctic visit might mean for Paris
All eyes were on the U.S. state of Alaska last week, where a major Arctic conference was underway. The international event
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U.S. icebreaker reaches North Pole
At 7:47 a.m. Saturday, after 28 days at sea, a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker reached the North Pole, making it the
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Sámi Parliament elections begin
The elections for the next Sámi Parliament began on Monday. Thirty-six candidates are in the running for the representative body, despite woes
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Russia – Norway polar bear count nixed
Russian scientists are disappointed that a planned Norwegian-Russian polar bear inventory was cancelled because of lack of good will from
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