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China & the Arctic – A View to 2050 | Hong Kong and online

Why don’t Icelandic sagas mention volcanoes?

Mining the sky: Synthetic diamonds imperil Arctic economies

High above the Third Pole, Nepali climbers conquer K2 in winter

Breaking down the US Navy’s blueprint for a blue Arctic

Kicking off 2021: A virtual book launch

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Russia

Navalny & Nord Stream 2: It all goes back to the Arctic

The poisoning of Putin's fiercest critic, Alexei Navalny, could disrupt plans for Nord Stream 2, which would bring gas from…

Mia Bennett 2September 16, 2020Sticky
USA/Alaska

What the Arctic reveals about coronavirus

The biological residues of the 1918 Spanish Flu dug up from the Arctic's frozen recesses may inform how we react…

Mia Bennett 2March 21, 2020Sticky
Climate Change

Welcome to the geoengineered Arctic

At Arctic Circle 2019, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, it seemed, had not gotten the memo: Oil is out,…

Mia Bennett 5October 15, 2019Sticky
Asia & the Arctic

China & the Arctic – A View to 2050 | Hong Kong and online

This symposium will leverage Hong Kong’s historic position as a meeting place between East and West to bring together social…

Mia Bennett 0April 18, 2021
Iceland

Why don’t Icelandic sagas mention volcanoes?

The March 2021 eruption of Iceland's Krýsuvík volcanic system has led to the livestreaming of an eruption like never before.…

Mia Bennett 3March 22, 2021
Mining

Mining the sky: Synthetic diamonds imperil Arctic economies

Once fixed in place, commodities like diamonds can now be conjured out of the sky from anywhere. This bodes ill…

Mia Bennett 0February 26, 2021
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Mia Bennett is an assistant professor in the University of Hong Kong’s Department of Geography and School of Modern Languages & Cultures.
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Travel & Photo

Fox Glacier, New Zealand

New Zealand’s Southern Alps offer a lush mirror image of the Arctic

By the end of this century, tourism on the moon may be possible, but glacier tourism in New Zealand may…

1April 18, 2020

Going underground in Kiruna

"In order for us to be able to continue mining iron ore, up until 2035, everything on top of the…

0November 6, 2019

Icelandic artist lights up London

Olafur Eliasson's show at London's Tate Modern passes Iceland's landscape through a glass prism, refracting it into a world of…

0August 8, 2019

Cycling along the whale-road

On the windswept Outer Hebrides, one of the remotest parts of the United Kingdom, silvery mists swirl over white sand…

1June 28, 2019

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Asia & the Arctic

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Maps & Satellite Imagery

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Russia’s extension of US overflight rights hurts the Arctic

Every week, hundreds of flights on U.S. airlines pass through Russian airspace. Only a handful of these flights actually start…

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New European satellite provides crystal-clear view of Arctic

Featured image: Ice flowing out to sea near Ilulissat, Greenland In June of last year, a satellite called Sentinel-2 rocketed into space.…

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Seen from space: Canadian highway to Arctic Ocean nears completion

Featured image: The Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway seen from space with NASA’s Landsat-8 satellite. A few days ago, The Washington Post ran a story…

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At night, satellites cast eyes on the Arctic frontier

(A version of this post originally appeared as part of the December 8 launch of Arctic Deeply, a now sadly defunct…

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