Arctic Watch

Facts About the Arctic

Month: December 2025

Climate change is straining Alaska’s Arctic

Ambler Access Road, approved by Trump administration, designed to reach massive copper deposits.

Dispose of mining waste in Arctic Ocean worries Sámi fishers and herders

The Nussir mining project is owned by Canadian company Blue Moon Metals.

The US National Security Strategy 2025

The United States seeks an Arctic region that is peaceful, stable, prosperous, and cooperative.

Deep sea mining in the Arctic stopped once again

The agreement to stop all exploration and exploitation of deep sea minerals was confirmed after pressure from the environmental movement and hard negotiations from the green opposition parties in Norway. 

The UK’s National Emergency Briefing on the Climate and Nature Crisis

These briefings are the clearest, most up-to-date picture of the climate and nature crisis in Britain.

Facts About the Arctic in December 2025

The latest Alfred Wegener Institute sea ice concentration map shows that the Pacific side of the Central Arctic Basin is now almost completely refrozen.

​​From the Indus to the Ice: China, Pakistan, and Lessons for Arctic Engagement

As China’s presence in the Arctic expands across scientific and security dimensions, understanding patterns in China’s global engagement is vital.

The deep sea and the Arctic must be included in efforts to tackle climate change

The deep sea stores 50 times more carbon than the atmosphere and 20 times more than all terrestrial plants and soils combined.