Some Alaska industries increasingly staff out-of-state workers, report
It’s something that never fails to rile Alaskans — valuable in-state jobs going to Outsiders. More of those jobs are
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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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Oil and gas consultations in Canada’s eastern Arctic next week
Federal officials will travel to ten communities in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut beginning next week. They’re inviting people
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Ice-Blog: Arctic hot topic in icy Tromso
It’s standing room only for anyone who came a bit late to the opening of Arctic Frontiers this morning. This
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Feature Interview: What Arctic highway project tells us about Canada’s plans for North
Construction on Canada’s long planned Arctic highway project in the western Arctic got underway this month. The project will connect
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Laser technology used to map polar bear den habitat
What is the best way to find sites that could be used for polar bear dens, the cozy snow caves
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Shell plans Arctic Alaska comeback
Royal Dutch Shell is back, baby! Well, maybe. The Netherlands-based oil giant has long said it would not return to
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Conoco adds rigs to Alaska operations
Oil rigs usually do their work in obscurity, but the two that ConocoPhillips hopes will help boost production on the
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Ice-Blog: Philippines, Warsaw, Arctic – join the dots
I have very mixed feelings as the UN climate conference gets underway in Warsaw just as the Philippines are devastated
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Ice-Blog: Greenpeace: Pirates, Hooligans – what next?
If it didn’t involve thirty committed conservationists being imprisoned and intimidated, I might be inclined to see the Russian authorities’
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Conservative government takes office in Norway
STAVANGER, Norway — A conservative government promising tax cuts and stricter controls on immigration has taken office in Norway. Incoming
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Norway faces minority government after coalition talks fail
Ruling parties agreed to keep some sensitive areas off limits to Norway’s sprawling oil industry, including the Arctic Lofoten and
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Commodifying nature: The price of ice
A graduate student recently interviewed me for his dissertation on Russia, the Arctic, oil and gas. During the interview, he
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Norway’s new government to reshape world’s largest wealth fund
Norway’s incoming centre-right government plans to revamp and possibly break up the country’s $750-billion oil fund, changing how one of
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U.S. interior secretary to spend night in ANWR
New Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is headed to Alaska to spend a night in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the
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