Arctic Circle

Former Greenlandic Premier Kuupik Kleist introduces the delegation from Japan, and worlds collide.(Mia Bennett)

Arctic Circle 2014: Welcome to the new global Arctic

Mia Bennett
Posted: Tuesday, November 4, 2014 at 20:57 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:33
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The Arctic has been no stranger to foreigners for quite some time. Although Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson opened the

U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski addresses Arctic Circle 2014 in Reykjavik, Iceland, with a map behind her of two polar opposite cities in the Arctic. (Mia Bennett)

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Blog: Arctic Circle – A tale of two Arctics

Mia Bennett
Posted: Monday, November 3, 2014 at 19:33 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:33
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Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson opened this year’s Arctic Circle conference today by declaring, “If the Global Arctic was not

Countries are jockeying for position in the Arctic as climate change opens the region up to increased resource extraction. (The Canadian Press)

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Expert predicts ice-free Arctic by 2020 as UN releases climate report

Craig Medred, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Monday, November 3, 2014 at 14:18 — Last Updated: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 17:39
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Get ready to order those beach umbrellas in Barrow. One of the leading authorities on the physics of

Tourists frolic amidst the geothermal steam of the Blue Lagoon. Reykjavik, Iceland. (Mia Bennett)

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Blog: From Arctic Circle 2013-2014, a big drop in the price of oil

Mia Bennett
Posted: Friday, October 31, 2014 at 19:23 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:33
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I’ve arrived in Iceland for the Arctic Circle 2014 assembly. I expressed some reservations about the conference program yesterday, but it should still be

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Blog: Asia and the Arctic in Eurasian Geography and Economics

Mia Bennett
Posted: Monday, August 11, 2014 at 09:22 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:33
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For interested readers, the peer-reviewed journal Eurasian Geography and Economics has just published my article, “North by Northeast: Toward an

The view from UNBC over Prince George, BC. (Mia Bennett)

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Blog: Reflections on 8th international congress of Arctic social sciences

Mia Bennett
Posted: Thursday, May 29, 2014 at 09:35 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:33
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In the logging town-turned service center of Prince George, British Columbia, close to 500 people descended upon the University of

View across Reykjavík in Iceland from Öskjuhlíd Hill. (Kirsty Wigglesworth, File / AP)

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Blog: Local vs Global – Dualism in Arctic Policy Development

Heather Exner-Pirot
Posted: Friday, October 18, 2013 at 15:13 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 28, 2014 at 20:55
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For those readers who just arrived to this blog from a 1981 deLorean, the Arctic has in recent years become

Ólafur Grímsson, president of Iceland, at the Harpa Reykjavík Concert and Conference Center on Oct. 10, 2013. (Loren Holmes / Alaska Dispatch)

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Many questions, but few answers as Arctic conference gets underway in Iceland

Ben Anderson, Alaska Dispatch
Posted: Friday, October 11, 2013 at 11:20 — Last Updated: Thursday, August 28, 2014 at 20:55
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REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Much has been made in recent years about the impending age of the Arctic.Some envision a future