Tag: Arctic

(Arctic) Interior Department halts seismic surveys for oil in Alaska’s Arctic refuge (Arctic Today)

Yereth Rosen The company proposing to survey parts of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain missed a deadline for its plan to protect polar...

(Arctic) Larger areas of ocean in the Arctic must be protected (The Barents Observer)

Text by Helge M. Markusson, Fram Centre Climate change and increased human activity are threats to marine mammals living in the Arctic. https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/node/8028

(Arctic/Russia/Oil Discoveries) Igor Sechin: New Arctic oil discoveries are world’s biggest (The Independent Barents Observatory)

Atle Staalesen Rosneft leader Igor Sechin on Monday made another visit to the Kremlin, his fifth in a year, and the Vostok Oil project was...

(Arctic/Russia/Norway) Kremlin takes look at grand Arctic tourism project on border to Norway (The Independent Barents Observatory)

Atle Staalesen It is one of Andrei Chibis’ top regional development priorities, and this week the governor traveled to Moscow to present the plans to...

(Arctic) Agents and the Arctic: The Case for Increased Use of Agent-Based Modeling to Study Permafrost (The Arctic Institute)

Sierra Hicks, Christopher McComb and Lilian Alessa Permafrost thaw is one of the world’s most pressing climate problems, already disrupting lifestyles, livelihoods, economies, and ecosystems in the north,...

(Russia/Arctic) Russia’s New ‘Arctic Offensive’: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Costs? (Part One) (The Jamestown Foundation)

 Sergey Sukhankin On February 1, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree approving the launch of six major state-supported investment projects in the Arctic...

(Russia/Arctic) Nuclear submarines and central heating (DIIS)

Flemming Splidsboel Hansen https://www.diis.dk/en/research/nuclear-submarines-and-central-heating

(Arctic) The Arctic threat that must not be named (War on the Rocks)

SHARON E. BURKE https://warontherocks.com/2021/01/the-arctic-threat-that-must-not-be-named/

(Arctic) Climate Change and Security in the Arctic (Center for Climate and Security)

https://climateandsecurity.org/climate-change-and-security-in-the-arctic/

(Arctic) The Arctic on the Frontlines (Gail Whiteman, Project-Syndicate)

It is comforting to imagine the Arctic as a snowy faraway place, populated by reindeer and polar bears. In fact, it is a cornerstone...

(Arctic) New Undersea Cables Could Become a Flashpoint in the Arctic (Paul Goble, The Jamestown Foundation)

Russian efforts to control the Northern Sea Route and to secure exclusive access to the local seabed, from which it hopes to pump oil...

(Russia/Petrochimical Sector/Arctic) Putin tasks to expand petrochemicals roadmap with Arctic projects (TASS)

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered to update the roadmap of the Russian petrochemical sector development by 2025 and complement it with implementation of promising...

(Arctic) Deep Dive Debrief: Strategic Stability and Competition in the Arctic (Rebecca Hersman, Eric Brewer, Maxwell Simon, CSIS)

The Arctic is growing in geostrategic importance and potentially becoming yet another zone for strategic competition, as this previously impenetrable territory becomes increasingly accessible...

NATO/ARCTIC/BLACK SEA REGION – NATO Facing Challenges From the Arctic to the Black Sea Region (LSE IDEAS)

LSE IDEAS, the New Strategy Center Bucharest (NSC) and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) host a one-day conference to provide a comprehensive...

INDIA/ARCTIC – Delhi to the Arctic via Paris (Chaitanya Giri, Gateway House)

India’s pledge to the Paris Agreement gives it the flexibility to confidently place its climate action policies across various multilaterals. Although an observer of...

ARCTIC – Scientists wrap up first studies of radionuclides in Arkhangelsk Region’s peatlands (TASS)

According to the researcher, the Arctic has suffered due to many factors, from nuclear testing on Novaya Zemlya Archipelago to a Chernobyl disaster https://tass.com/science/1229457