Arctic Circle 2014: Welcome to the new global Arctic
The Arctic has been no stranger to foreigners for quite some time. Although Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson opened the…
Arctic Circle Day 1: A tale of two Arctics
Icelandic President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson opened this year’s Arctic Circle conference today by declaring, “If the Global Arctic was not…
From Arctic Circle 2013 to 2014, a big drop in the price of oil
I’ve arrived in Iceland for the Arctic Circle 2014 assembly. I expressed some reservations about the conference program yesterday, but it…