How better data could dramatically improve Arctic shipping insurance
Having functioning Arctic shipping insurance is a fundamental step toward safety and development in the Arctic. However, substantial uncertainty around polar maritime risk and...
What Rex Tillerson’s confirmation hearing might be able to tell us...
At Wednesday's Senate confirmation hearing for President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, expected topics like Russia, nuclear weapons, and Mexico came...
A US-led naval Arctic security program is excluding Russia. That’s a...
Scholars and sailors from six Arctic nations gathered at the U.S. Naval War College in April to begin a 13-month research program on Arctic...
Why climate policy makers should listen more carefully to the Arctic’s...
While the global spotlight has placed climate change on many regional and national agendas, it’s easy to overlook smaller scale efforts to adapt and...
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...
Word of new Arctic oil is encouraging but Alaska shouldn’t bank...
The announcement of new oil discovered on the North Slope in recent weeks – in fact, several in the past few months – is...
The Trump administration is still downplaying how much land Arctic refuge...
As the Trump administration moves ahead with plans to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration as soon as possible, it is...
Obama’s Arctic decision trashes years of work
President Obama’s Dec. 20 executive order locking up offshore development in the Arctic was Alaska’s “Nightmare before Christmas.” Much of the policy and planning...
The furor over a tourism-related polar bear death misses some key...
A recent and very unfortunate incident in Svalbard where a polar bear was killed in self-defense after attacking a man from a cruise vessel...
From threatened to thriving: Using technology to preserve Arctic Indigenous languages
Most Gwich’in children living in the Northwest Territories in Canada and Northern Alaska will never learn to speak their native language. Of the 6,000...
