The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 27 November, 2023
Inuit-Owned Mineral Exploration Company Takes Over Road and Port Project in Western Arctic
Why can’t we explore the Arctic?
With a frigid and hostile environment, the Arctic is one of the last frontiers yet to be fully explored. As climate change gradually melts the polar ice caps, revealing vast reservoirs of untapped fossil fuels, the question emerges: Which nation will assert its claim…
A brief winter pause
While autumn sea ice growth is in full swing, brief pauses are not unusual.
The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 20 November, 2023
Greenland Decides to Join the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 13 November, 2023
UK Deterrence and Assurance Conference in Scotland Sees Focus on High North Security
China’s Polar Silk Road: Long Game or Failed Strategy?
As China is striving to become a global power, including in maritime and transportation domains, the Arctic is of interest to China.
The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 6 November, 2023
Willow Oil Project in Alaska’s Arctic Given Approval to Proceed
EU urged to throw its economic weight behind Arctic conservation
Despite the EU having little direct say on the protection of poles and glaciers, advocates argued at the One Planet – Polar Summit, hosted in Paris from Wednesday to Friday (8-10 November), that its economic might can still be influential….
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.