Current NPR-A plan makes sense for both wilderness and oil development
In the glow of the midnight sun, we’re paddling down the wild Utukok River in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. Here, the wilderness swallows you,...
The First Frontier: Creating a climate displacement fund for displaced Alaska...
Alaska needs a climate displacement fund, or it risks the lives of its indigenous communities.The world’s first climate change refugees may not only be...
Hilcorp’s Cook Inlet leaks underscore Arctic risks
Hilcorp’s oil release from an underwater pipeline in Cook Inlet this month, combined with its natural gas pipeline leak that has been flowing nonstop...
Why election day in Greenland is anything but ordinary
As this is being written, the premier of Greenland, Kim Kielsen, is taking his time negotiating with potential partners over the terms for his...
Elders thank Obama for Bering Sea designation
Imarpig. In my Yup’ik language, this means the big water, the ocean. This is the Bering Sea. It is where our stories come from...
Missile defense and the danger of ignoring diplomacy
At a remote site in Interior Alaska, 40 rockets in underground silos stand ready for launch, each topped with small spacecraft that could be...
Trump is failing the US — and the Arctic — by...
In his January interview with a fawning Piers Morgan, American Pres. Donald Trump again praised himself as a “stable genius” and demonstrated that he...
How Trump made me a whistleblower after I warned of danger...
I am not a member of the deep state. I am not big government.I am a scientist, a policy expert, a civil servant and...
Commentary: Indigenous peoples are safeguarding Arctic cooperation
At the recently concluded Arctic Circle Assembly held in Reykjavik, representatives from Arctic states underlined time and again the achievement of continuing cooperation under...
A lonely Arab at the Arctic Circle Assembly
In attending the fifth annual Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavik, Iceland, I was struck at how far-reaching this one conference has become. Addressing issues...
