UN Secretary General addresses Arctic Circle: "There's no Planet B"
Yesterday at the Arctic Circle conference in Iceland’s booming capital, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon accepted the first-ever Arctic…
The continental shelf: geological, legal, or geopolitical?
With Shell receiving conditional approval to drill in the Chukchi Sea in offshore Alaska, the phrase “continental shelf” has come up…
Commodifying nature: The price of ice
A graduate student recently interviewed me for his dissertation on Russia, the Arctic, oil and gas. During the interview, he…