At Arctic Circle 2019, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, it seemed, had not gotten the memo: Oil is out,…
"In order for us to be able to continue mining iron ore, up until 2035, everything on top of the…
British filmmaker Cal Murphy Barton is producing a documentary about a scientist who has witnessed five decades of Arctic sea…
"In order for us to be able to continue mining iron ore, up until 2035, everything on top of the…
Olafur Eliasson's show at London's Tate Modern passes Iceland's landscape through a glass prism, refracting it into a world of…
On the windswept Outer Hebrides, one of the remotest parts of the United Kingdom, silvery mists swirl over white sand…
Today is the first week of spring, which means that it is Polar Week! It’s also the day on which…
Pompeo’s swashbuckling fantasies aside, geopolitical competition in the contemporary Arctic is not about who controls swaths of continents or oceans.…
Over the weekend, as the temperature in Seoul plunged to -12°C, Koreans bundled up in the long puffy black parkas…
Featured image: In February 2019, street signs in Kirkenes will temporarily go from bilingual to trilingual. Photo: Cryopolitics rendition. Sitting on…
I recently wrote an op-ed for China-US Focus, which describes itself as one of the leading commentary journals of Sino-American relations. The…
Every week, hundreds of flights on U.S. airlines pass through Russian airspace. Only a handful of these flights actually start…
Featured image: Ice flowing out to sea near Ilulissat, Greenland In June of last year, a satellite called Sentinel-2 rocketed into space.…
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…
(A version of this post originally appeared as part of the December 8 launch of Arctic Deeply, a now sadly defunct…
