A new year’s greeting from our publisher
As we start a new year, I wanted to share a few thoughts with you. And I invite you to do the same with us.
A recent article in the Journal of Foreign Affairs titled “How Much Abuse can America’s Allies Take?” (December 8, 2025 by Robert Kelly and Paul Poast) reports what many of us are thinking.
The integrity of the post-World War II alliance is fractured. Friendships and trust among our nations who worked in cooperation since the Cold War now are strained by this American Administration. Threats to annex Greenland are divisive and unnecessary. But I deeply believe that, despite the words exchanged by governments, we as individuals and as a community stand united by our shared circumstances.
Arctic residents in the Nordics can see NATO’s buildup with their own eyes. Towns are dotted with soldiers in uniform, military vessels ply our waters, and we are witnessing an explosion of growth in satellite and data- related businesses. Security buildup may be less visible in Alaska and the Canadian Arctic but is nonetheless on the rise.
We at Arctic Today will report on these developments so that readers living to our south can know more about this vital part of the globe.
Importantly, we will continue to highlight topics of mutual interest: climate innovation, sustainable energy, environmental change, and ongoing coverage of thriving indigenous communities armed with vast, ancestral knowledge.
What’s more, we will focus on the explosion of Arctic shipping and maritime transportation, the evolving trends in fishing and aquaculture, and the somewhat surprising growth of winter tourism.
Our ongoing partnership with The Barents Observer will continue and highlight the courageous coverage of news from inside Russia.
New readers unfamiliar with the Arctic often are drawn to us by our reporting on climate events. We will continue to offer that coverage as a mainstay. But we also will focus on the many challenges and exciting opportunities that are available in our Arctic regions. We will keep this as our lodestar. We want our southern readers to continue learning more about us.
Personally, as an American, I am grateful that you, our readers, see us in more real and complex terms. We are full of exciting and peaceful developments. Innovation abounds in our universities, our research communities and our business incubators. Investment capital is growing both internally and across borders.
For myself, please know this about me. I am fortunate and grateful to be an American who came of age as globalism enriched the lives of nations and individuals. Some days I feel like I am holding my breath until these days return. Having lived in and visited so many of the Arctic places we cover and gotten to know so many of you and your communities, I am forever a proud member of the Arctic family. Tension among governments is just that. We are the actors and thinkers who know that governments come and go. Political moments pass. Our friendships and partnerships must not.
I hope that Arctic Today makes clear in many ways that we see this community as vibrant and permanent. As always, I invite you to send us content and commentaries that illustrate this ideal from your perspective. Your voices are essential to our mutual understanding. Geography has placed us together and keeps us there. So do our interests, our labors, and our shared hopes for the future.
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Alice Rogoff
Founder and publisher of Arctic Today
