Feature Interview: The environmental and social impacts of Arctic tourism
The changing Arctic climate has opened up business and economic opportunities in everything from resource development to shipping. Arctic tourism
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Canada
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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Feature interview: finger pointed at Canada, Russia, for degradation of intact boreal forest
The latest satellite mapping analysis of the planet’s untouched forests by a group of organizations such as Greenpeace and the
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Found at last! Franklin ship lost for 166 years
The well-prepared ships left England in 1845 in search of the fabled Northwest Passage through the Arctic, to the Orient.
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Blog: Asia and the Arctic in Eurasian Geography and Economics
For interested readers, the peer-reviewed journal Eurasian Geography and Economics has just published my article, “North by Northeast: Toward an
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Worst forest fire season in decades in Canada`s Northwest Territories
The wildfire season continues to get worse in Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT). Already listed as the worst season for fires
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Blog: China-Russia gas deal creates Arctic winners and losers
The $400 billion, 30-year China-Russia gas deal signed in Shanghai on May 21 has sparked a lot of excitement about
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Blog: Interactive atlas shows Inuit trails
Last week, a new atlas was released documenting the network of pan-Inuit trails crisscrossing the Arctic from Alaska to Greenland.
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Blog: Reflections on 8th international congress of Arctic social sciences
In the logging town-turned service center of Prince George, British Columbia, close to 500 people descended upon the University of
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Ice-Blog: Ukraine’s shadow on Arctic cooperation
When a meeting of the Senior Arctic Officials of the Arctic Council scheduled to take place in Canada in June
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Interview: CBC North journalist finds home in Canadian Arctic
“If you think Iqaluit is the North, you have another thing coming.” So some folks in this Canadian city of
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Feature Interview: The need for business cooperation in the Arctic
All over the circumpolar world, business and the prosperity of indigenous communities is taking centre stage. Canada, the current chair
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Greenland meeting to discuss Arctic fishing
International delegations from five Arctic coastal nations are meeting in Greenland this week to discuss Arctic fishing. Huge sections of
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Blog: Local vs Global – Dualism in Arctic Policy Development
For those readers who just arrived to this blog from a 1981 deLorean, the Arctic has in recent years become
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(Français) Les ours blancs au milieu d’un souque-à-la-corde canado-américain
(Français) À en croire le gouvernement canadien, les ours blancs ne sont pas menacés par la chasse. Des mesures strictes
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