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...
When the U.S. Navy ended its climate task force, Arctic issues...
Earlier this year, the U.S. Navy quietly stood down Task Force Climate Change, the decade-long mission to understand and plan for rapid environmental changes...
Embattled US Interior secretary, who championed expanded Arctic oil development, resigns...
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who has spent his two years in office pushing for new oil development across Arctic Alaska’s lands and waters, is...
With draft environmental study done, Trump administration hopes for Arctic refuge...
The Trump administration is on track to auction off oil drilling rights next year in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and a key milestone...
Arctic Refuge oil program, in legal limbo, targeted for repeal in...
The Republican-led Congressional act that in 2017 opened up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil leasing would be reversed by a new budget...
UN pins Greenland waste cleanup on Denmark
Greenland was right to demand in 2016 that Denmark assume full responsibility for cleaning up the waste left behind by the U.S. military starting in...
In a new report, Britain reconsiders its Arctic military capabilities
To understand the British House of Commons report, released earlier this month, expressing concern about that country’s capabilities to conduct military operations in the...
With erosion threatening its shoreline, Utqiagvik’s residents are stepping up as...
To understand how worried residents in the northernmost U.S. community are about storm-wave flooding, take a walk along the beach.
In Utqiagvik, formerly known as...
Arctic Council sells itself as a model for international cooperation at...
For the first time since its formation in 1996, the Arctic Council presented its work at the UN’s annual High-level Political Forum on Sustainable...
A call to phase HFO out of the Arctic tops list...
In their annual convention in Anchorage, delegates to the Alaska Federation of Natives passed resolutions urging better protection of the Arctic marine environment, a...
