 Photo: U.S. Coast Guard Ryan Uljua, April 4, 2016 Following a sly piece of last-minute legislative maneuvering, the US Congress is now widely expected to fund a ninth National Security Cutter (NSC) for the Coast Guard. The ninth NSC will join the originally planned eight ships, six of which have already been built. Unlike Congress, President Obama’s Office of Management and Budget has deemed the 9th NSC an “unnecessary” luxury. However, now that funding for the ship is all but guaranteed, the Administration should work with Congress and the Coast Guard to transform the so-called "luxury" ship into a vital national asset in the US Arctic. | Conference Join The Arctic Institute for Arctic Business 2016 and the High North Dialogue 2016 in Bodø, North Norway this May. Contest Newsletter The Liberal’s first budget signals a change when it comes to tackling issues such as climate change and the people of the Arctic (CBC). Many leaders in N.W.T. are happy about the budget, although not all. The promising parts included $27 million in funding for affordable housing, among other things (CBC). Analysis Wilfrid Greaves, March 22, 2016 Environmental changes in the Arctic are driving complex physical and social processes that place circumpolar states and peoples on the frontline of global environmental insecurity. Humanity’s collective impacts on the global biosphere have led to a new geological era – the Anthropocene – in which transformative environmental change threatens to undermine conditions of security for states, sub-state communities, and non-human referent objects. |
 Photo: Lee Narraway,Students on Ice Youth Perspective Series Janelle Trowbridge, March 24, 2016 Dog sledding is often no longer seen as the most viable and accessible mode of transportation in the North. Yet, there is potential for this cultural mode of transportation to blossom into a method of building better relationships between Northern nations. Public diplomacy, which is the diplomacy of influencing, informing, and understanding the public of another nation, involves above all else the process of intercultural relations. |  Photo: Facebook acount Arctic Winter Games 2016 Nuuk 2016 Analysis A few days before the opening ceremony of the 2016 Arctic Winter Games (AWG) in Nuuk, Greenland, weather reports looked bleak. A spring blizzard was on its way and expected to peak the day prior to the opening ceremony. |  Photo: Pete Souza Analysis Part two analyzes opportunities for a North American Arctic adaptation program to safeguard communities against the most immediate effects of a changing climate. Together, they offer a foundation to jumpstart US-Canadian cooperation in the age of the anthropocene. |
 Photo:Office of Naval Research Quick Guide Victoria Herrmann, February 10, 2016 From February 1 to March 18, the 40th session of the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf is taking place in New York City. Early in its session, Russia’s Natural Resources and Environment Minister Sergei Donskoi presented his country’s claim to extend its rights in the Arctic through an extended continental shelf. |  Source: Commercial Fishermen for Bristol Bay Analysis Brett Veerhusen, February 1, 2016 In the coming decades, Arctic nations are poised for increased mineral development. The mining industry is important to all Arctic countries and the industry provides jobs and economic opportunity to Arctic regions. |  Photo: Deutsch Roemer Podcasts |
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