Blog: The Russian Far East, the Arctic and Foreign Trade
On Monday, I wrote about the diamond mine located in Mirny, a city in the Sakha Republic in the Russian
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Blog: Mapping and distorting the Arctic
I’m here at the University of Minnesota’s Polar Boot Camp, which is run by the on-campus Polar Geospatial Center (PGC).
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Blog: Full steam ahead for Asian icebreakers in the Arctic this summer
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) governs many of the activities on and below the
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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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Ice-Blog: Climate talks at glacial place?
Who would have believed it? It has been a long time since the routine UN climate talks in Bonn aroused
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Ice-Blog: Time for a “new environmentalism”?
What are these cuddly marmots doing on an exhibition stand at Green Week, Europe’s biggest environment policy gathering, being held
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Blog: UK has Arctic on radar in national maritime security strategy
The United Kingdom is a country with longstanding interests in the Arctic. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English whalers
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Blog: The tyranny of time and distance in Arctic SAR
In a recent post, I discussed cross-polar flights and the international framework that exists for search and rescue (SAR) coordination
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Ice-Blog: Eco-group questions Iceland oil
Back in January, China’s state-owned oil company CNOOC obtained an Arctic exploration licence for the remote Dreki area, 125 miles
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Ice-Blog: Climate change back on the agenda?
Trawling the media for climate-related stories over the weekend, I began to see some signs that the message might be
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BLOG: Conference in New Delhi analyzes Asia-Arctic linkages
“It’s so far, but so very near to us now.” This is what Dr. Uttam Kumar Sinha observed during the opening
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FEATURE INTERVIEW: Would a Canada-U.S. merger be good for the Arctic?
Canada and the United States have a reputation for being among the world’s friendliest neighbours. They share a common language,
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BLOG: Russia opens first of ten new search and rescue centers in the Arctic
On August 20, the first of ten new Russian search and rescue centers along the Northern Sea Route (NSR) opened
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Yong Sheng: Why Arctic voyage of Chinese cargo ship is business as usual
Much is being made of the voyage of the Yong Sheng, a Chinese cargo ship slowly making its way across
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All eyes on China as cargo vessel takes to the north
On August 8, the Chinese cargo ship Yong Sheng set sail from Dalian, a port city in northeastern China. The Hong Kong-flagged
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