In Iceland visit, Special Representative on the Arctic and High North discusses challenges of the Arctic and its growing importance
OSCE Parliamentary Vice-President and Special Representative on the Arctic and High North Rt. Hon. Mark Pritchard (United Kingdom) is concluding an official three-day visit to Iceland where he discussed security and environmental challenges that the Arctic is facing. During his…
USA working with allies over sanctions on Russian Arctic LNG project
The sanctions are aimed at degrading Russia’s future energy production and export capabilities, while maintaining the flow of energy to world markets.
Impact of Holocene environmental change on the evolutionary ecology of an Arctic top predator
The Arctic is among the most climatically sensitive environments on Earth, and the disappearance of multiyear sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is predicted within decades.
The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 30 October, 2023
Western Arctic Caribou Herd Numbers Declining for Last 20 Years
The world’s boreal forests may be shrinking as climate change pushes them northward
Earth’s boreal forests circle our planet’s far northern reaches, just south of the Arctic’s treeless tundra. If the planet wears an Arctic ice cap, then the boreal forests are a loose-knit headband wrapped around its ears, covering large portions of Alaska, Canada,…
The long Arctic winter sets in
As the long Arctic winter sets in, sea ice extent has increased at a faster than average pace.