Trump’s National Security Strategy mentions the Arctic, but not climate change
Last week, the Trump Administration released its National Security Strategy, a 55-page document intended to lay out the administration’s strategic interests, threats, and capabilities.Since the...
Arctic tourism is growing — but that’s playing out differently around...
Barren lands, icebergs and a unique flora and fauna have been attracting more and more tourists to Arctic regions over the last decades. However,...
How Angry Birds and prospects of Chinese funding power visions of...
I have just come back from Oulu, a major city in northern Finland, where temperatures dropped to minus 26 degrees Celsius (minus 15 Fahrenheit)....
Under Trump, US-Russian relations hit new low
President Donald Trump came into office with hopes of establishing a "fantastic relationship" with Russia, praising his counterpart in Moscow as "very smart." Instead,...
Shipping Traffic on Northern Sea Route Grows by 40 percent
Shipping traffic in Russia’s Arctic waters along the Northern Sea Route experienced significant growth in 2017. Cargo volume on the route is expected to...
Innovation for a new Arctic
Rapid environmental and social changes in the Arctic region have enormous local and global impacts, from endangering indigenous communities to increasing global sea level....
In 1945, the North Pole was a powerful global symbol. It’s...
NEW YORK — The Uber driver slid onto Columbus Avenue, where not a single moving car blocked our path on a street that normally...
Insulting Canada won’t help the US with its Arctic ambitions
In the summer of 1985, the United States Coast Guard sent the icebreaker Polar Sea on a voyage across the Northwest Passage from Greenland...
The Week Ahead: First among many
The Arctic Council has never made much use of the Arctic Circle, a big annual conference held in Reykjavík, Iceland, each October: It was...
What Trudeau’s first official visit to Canada’s North as prime minister...
Before Justin Trudeau headed south to the White House, he went north to the Arctic. What happened on the Prime Minister’s first official visit...
