Where Did All the Ice Go? Arctic Ice Extent Reaches New Record Low
By Malte Humpert Arctic Ice Extent set a new all-time record low on August 24, 2012. Preliminary figures by the IARC-JAXA Information System (IJIS), a collaboration between International Arctic...
View ArticleThe Arctic This Week: News for 18 August - 24 August 2012
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View ArticleInterview with Ruth Davis, Senior Political Advisor at Greenpeace...
By Tom Fries Greenpeace activists climbed Gazprom's Prirazlomnoye oil platform south of Novaya Zemlya, in the Russian Arctic to protest plans by the Russian energy company to drill in the...
View ArticleThe Arctic This Week: News for 25 August - 31 August 2012
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View ArticleInterview with Ruth Davis, Senior Political Advisor at Greenpeace...
By Tom Fries Greenpeace's "Save the Arctic" campaign has had several different high-profile initiatives, including the "Arctic Ready" website collecting fake Shell ads, phalanxes of polar bears...
View ArticleThe Arctic This Week: News for 1 September - 7 September 2012
Iceberg from the fast-moving Kangerlussuaq Glacier, East Greenland. Dave Walsh 2009By Tom Fries The Arctic This Week – 1 September to 7 September 2012Not a subscriber yet? Sign up here. The newsletter...
View ArticleInterview with Ruth Davis, Senior Political Advisor at Greenpeace...
By Tom Fries In this podcast, part 3 of 3, Tom Fries talks with Ruth Davis, Senior Political Advisor to Greenpeace International, about the organization's "Save the Arctic" campaign. There are a couple...
View ArticleThe EU and The Arctic: A Never Ending Story
Deputy Secretary General of the EU Foreign (EEAS) Helga Schmid visiting Svalbard with Kåre R. Aas.Photo: Alex Winther, UD http://goo.gl/bJuffBy Andreas Østhagen The European Commission’s new outline...
View ArticleThe Arctic This Week: News for 8 September - 15 September 2012
Céline Clanet / extract from her project on the sámi village of "Máze""Waiting for Ante, 2008" - celineclanet.comBy Tom Fries The Arctic This Week – 8 September to 14 September 2012Not a subscriber...
View ArticleThe Arctic This Week: 15 September - 21 September 2012
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View ArticleThe Arctic This Week: 22 September - 28 September 2012
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View ArticleThe Arctic This Week: 29 September - 5 October 2012
A young (possibly one year old) polar bear cub becomes fascinated with a small spherical device (a reference ball) used by scientists working on sea ice. The cub and its mother stopped science work...
View ArticleThe Future of Arctic Shipping
By Malte Humpert and Andreas Raspotnik Arctic sea ice is melting rapidly, and within the next decade the effects of global warming may transform the Polar region from an inaccessible frozen desert into...
View ArticleThe Arctic This Week: 6 October - 12 October 2012
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View ArticleThe Arctic Dialogue in Brussels: Are we talking about the same ‘Arctic’?
By Andreas Østhagen The number of Arctic seminars in Brussels seems to increase in parallel with the decrease of Arctic sea ice every year. Despite this swell of discussion, the rhetoric used by the...
View ArticleThe Arctic This Week: 13 October - 19 October 2012
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View ArticleThe EU as a Prospective Permanent Observer to the Arctic Council: Footholds,...
This article is based upon a presentation that the author gave at a workshop at the Rideau Institute in Ottawa on 27 September 2012. The workshop’s title was “Circumpolar Challenges: an Ambitious...
View ArticleThe EU as a Prospective Permanent Observer to the Arctic Council: Footholds,...
This article is based upon a presentation that the author gave at a workshop at the Rideau Institute in Ottawa on 27 September 2012. The workshop’s title was “Circumpolar Challenges: an Ambitious...
View ArticleThe Arctic This Week: 27 October - 2 November 2012
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View ArticleArctic Oil and Gas: A Regional or Global Concern?
By Andreas Østhagen Due to environmental concerns spotlighted by NGOs like Greenpeace and Bellona, Arctic petroleum activity is being scrutinised as never before by governments, local inhabitants and...
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