Why we need a ‘Polar Code’ for Arctic community resettlement
The eight countries of the Arctic are experiencing the effects of climate change most acutely — a climate that is changing so quickly that...
Will the Arctic Council begin addressing national security?
This year’s Arctic Council ministerial meeting showcased increasingly complicated issues in the region — from national security to climate change and more — and...
How a new initiative aims to promote women and bridge polar...
There are amazing women in polar scholarship and representation, but all too often their contributions are under-represented and under-valued. Barriers such as a funding...
Did Finland fail as Arctic Council chair?
The chair of the Arctic Council organises the meetings of the Sustainable Development Working Group and the Senior Arctic Officials as well as the...
Homes like parkas? Why Arctic housing may need to go...
SEATTLE — Arctic housing specialist Jack Hébert likes to paraphrase a saying from the Inupiaq, an Indigenous group living in Alaska's Arctic."Before the white...
Pompeo’s bombastic Arctic Council performance could prove an aberration — or...
No, Mike Pompeo, the United States did not purchase Alaska from Russia in 1857. That happened a decade later, as every school child in...
China reveals Arctic geopolitics to be above Pompeo’s pay grade
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s swashbuckling fantasies aside, geopolitical competition in the contemporary Arctic is not about who controls swaths of continents or...
Why the work of the Arctic Council will continue even without...
On Tuesday this week, as many readers will know, the foreign ministers of the eight Arctic states, who met in Finland for a key...
Why a US-driven dispute over Arctic Council climate language is different...
Refusing to talk about climate change in hopes it will go away is hardly a sensible strategy.But it’s not really a surprise that U.S....
Why US climate hostility might be a bigger threat to Arctic...
The Trump Administration’s reluctance to recognize climate change as a major problem in the Arctic is currently frustrating negotiations in the run-up to the...
