Arctic Watch

Facts About the Arctic

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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.

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. 

Russia is modernising its meteorological stations in Arctic

In anticipation of future shipping, dozens of stations above the Arctic Circle are being upgraded.

Space dust in the Arctic is helping scientists track the climate crisis

That urgency stems from climatologists battling with understanding how the Arctic will respond to the worsening climate crisis.

Clean Arctic Alliance hails Nordic push for sustainable polar marine fuels

Black carbon—a short-lived climate pollutant that accelerates the melting of ice and snow—is a “climate superpollutant” that is produced when fossil fuels are burned. It has been linked to an increased pace of warming seen in the Arctic.

A New AI Data Center for the High North

The facility would match the scale of Aker’s ongoing Stargate Norway project in Narvik, developed jointly with OpenAI and Microsoft.

Russian oil exports to China main cargo on Arctic route

The number of oil voyages is higher than the same period a year earlier.

China Launches 18-Day Arctic Express Containership Route To Europe With Stops in UK, Germany, Poland

A Chinese shipping company is set to launch the first liner-type container shipping route via the Arctic.