Feature Interview: Will Russia’s actions in Ukraine affect relations in the Arctic Council?
A meeting of the Arctic Council’s senior Arctic officials takes place in Canada’s Northwest Territories from March 25-March27. The agenda
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Blog: Ukraine’s impact on Arctic gas development: Part II
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the potential impacts Ukraine could have on Arctic gas development. Last week, I
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Nordics rethink security after Ukraine crisis
Norway hopes that both Sweden and Finland will join NATO, as their current relationship with the alliance is equivalent to
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Nordea: Finland’s economy will hardly grow at all this year
The bank says Finland’s weak outlook should be a sign to the government that the economy cannot withstand further tax
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Ice-Blog: Birthday gift for Svalbard seed vault
On the Arctic island of Svalbard in the Spitsbergen archipelago, 1500 kilometers from the North Pole, special deliveries are arriving
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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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Ice-Blog: Why melting Arctic ice leaves us cold!
Since I attended a workshop on “Creating a Climate for Change” in Tromso in January, I have been thinking a
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Nordics expand scope of foreign and security policy cooperation
The Nordic countries are to upgrade cooperation in fields including crisis management and cyber security. The Foreign Ministers of Denmark,
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Ice-Blog: Arctic infrastructure cannot keep pace
The Russian response to Greenpeace’s protest at the Arctic Prirazlomnoye oil rig made it clear to a lot of people
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Blog: Finnish Foreign Minister on the Nordic model and the Arctic
Finland has a smaller profile in the Arctic than its neighbor to the west, Norway. Whereas Norwegian Prime Minister Erna
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Feature Interview: Live from Arctic Frontiers
Last week’s column focused on the Arctic Frontiers conference being held in Tromso, Norway. Deutsche Welle journalist and blogger Irene
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Ice-Blog: Climate Change – Arctic in denial?
If there is one place you would imagine people would have to be conscious of climate change, it would be
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Ice-Blog: Sun returns after dark Arctic winter
The sun has come back over the horizon. I can understand why people celebrate it here. At the moment there
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Ice-Blog: Oil, Industry and Arctic Sustainability
I arrived at the university campus for Arctic Frontiers this morning to find a row of young people waiting to
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Ice-Blog: Sustainable future for Arctic people?
It has been a full day at Arctic Frontiers. This was day one of the two-day political segment (science follows
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