Busting the 2,000-acre myth about drilling in Alaska’s Arctic refuge
The recent Republican tax bill, signed into law by President Trump, calls for two oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife...
China and the US both have strategic designs for Greenland
Two seemingly unrelated messages, reaching us only a few days apart, recently revealed how Greenland occupies an increasingly strategic place in today’s geopolitics.
One of...
US Navy plans to send surface vessels through the Arctic
The United States Navy is drawing up plans to send multiple surface vessels through the Arctic Ocean this summer, signaling a potential change in...
Russia sets out stringent new rules for foreign ships on the...
The Russian government has elaborated a set of rules for foreign naval vessels sailing on the Northern Sea Route, according to Izvestia. The newspaper has...
Norway won’t participate in a major European NATO exercise next year
NATO’s northernmost country, with a direct border to Russia’s militarized Kola Peninsula relies heavily on allied reinforcements, but lacks capacity to join when its...
Alaska’s new governor has dismissed the state’s climate team and scrapped...
The state of Alaska no longer has an official strategy for addressing climate change.
With an administrative order issued on Feb. 21, Gov. Mike Dunleavy...
Why President Trump’s idea to buy Greenland is not a joke...
For more than a week, journalists and commentators across the world have been regarding U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks that he may consider buying...
As Greenland’s plans to build new airports gather momentum, Denmark is...
When it comes to the future of Greenland’s economy, there are two things lawmakers in Nuuk and in Copenhagen can agree on.
The first is...
For the first time ever, an Arctic Council ministerial meeting has...
A meeting of all eight Arctic foreign ministers, including U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Russia's Sergei Lavrov, ended on Tuesday in Rovaniemi,...
A Nuuk plan to marginalize the Danish language in Greenland worries...
A single sentence in the agreement struck by the four parties making up Greenland’s new coalition government is threatening to sour the relationship between...
