How Maine is turning itself into an Arctic player
PORTLAND, Maine — Promoters of Maine’s stake in Arctic policy often point to a map of the Northwest Passage, the sea route along the...
A proposed mining access road in Alaska’s Arctic could harm subsistence...
The cost of a proposed 200-mile road into Northwest Alaska could weigh heavily on the dinner tables of villagers living near the route, a...
Across the north of Europe, fall gets off to a warmer...
Autumn starts as spring ended—with substantially warmer weather than normal. Summers in the northernmost parts of mainland Europe are getting longer.
According to the Norwegian...
‘Right to Be Cold’ sounds warning of rapid Arctic warming
The Right to Be Cold: One Woman’s Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet
By Sheila Watt-Cloutier; Penguin Canada; 2016; 368...
Icelanders swap city lights for northern lights
Lights off. Lights on.
Reykjavik, Iceland's capital and biggest city, went dark Wednesday night after the City Council switched off street lamps and encouraged residents...
Russia plans to kill a quarter-million reindeer amid anthrax fears
You know Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid . . . ?
Their cousins may all be dead soon.
Faced with a public...
As Norway’s Arctic draws visitors, more polar bears get shot
ON BOARD THE POLARSYSSEL - More polar bears are being shot dead on Norway's remote Arctic islands, where dangerous encounters with humans are getting more frequent as...
Canada confirms discovery of second ship from doomed Franklin Arctic voyage
TORONTO — Canada confirmed on Monday it has found the wreck of HMS Terror, the second of two British ships lost in the disastrous Franklin Arctic...
Ottawa isn’t ready to back Nunavut’s road to the Arctic Ocean
Canada's federal government is not yet ready to support one of the Government of Nunavut’s biggest infrastructure dreams: the 325-kilometer (roughly 200-mile) Grays Bay...
Shipping companies snub Russian Arctic route
According to figures from the Russian Northern Sea Route Administration (NSRA), transit shipping on the route by mid-September amounted to 208,500 tons of cargo....
