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Category: Updates

Greenland first

10 June, 2021 Kevin McGwin

UPDATE | Denmark is seeking to keep its kingdom together by giving Greenland and the Faroe Islands a little elbow room

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Proof of intent

29 October, 2020 Kevin McGwin

UPDATE | A US concession to Greenland has opened the door to closer relations between the two countries

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Tipping point

23 October, 2020 Kevin McGwin

UPDATE | Greenland’s legislature has been suspended and students have been quarantined in order to head off a corona outbreak

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Geographically distancing

2 October, 2020 Kevin McGwin

UPDATE | Greenland’s health authorities announce a return to the test-and-quarantine strategy that prevented an outbreak this spring

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Mission: impossible (until later)

7 March, 2019 Kevin McGwin

UPDATE | Moving a fishing boat grounded in the waters of northern of Svalbard any time before late summer risks human lives and could threaten

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Status crab

14 February, 2019 Kevin McGwin

UPDATE | Because crabs move on Norway’s continental shelf, not in the international waters above it, Oslo may limit who can catch them

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Secessionist success

11 May, 2018 Kevin McGwin

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Unburying the hatchet

5 May, 2018 Kevin McGwin

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Lessons of the century

22 August, 2017 Kevin McGwin

UPDATE | A monitoring expedition to Camp Century on the Greenland ice cap finds the best thing we can do to keep its toxic waste

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Pumping money into the ground

2 November, 2015 Kevin McGwin

UPDATE | Oslo will fund development of “safe and sustainable” oil exploration in the Barents

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Standing on principle

16 September, 2014 Kevin McGwin

UPDATE | After setting its own whaling quota in 2013, Greenland will again be granted an official exemption from the whaling moratorium

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Arctic Watch

  • Extreme Weather and the Arctic Meltdown
  • The Arctic: a delicate icy ecosystem
  • MOSAiC Science lectures – Arctic Sea Ice Ecology

Related thinks

  • Far but not so far: Italy’s Role and Interests in the Arctic (The Arctic Institute)
    11 November, 2020
  • Russia Unveils New Arctic Development Strategy: Focal Points and Key Priorities (Eurasia Daily Monitor)
    10 November, 2020
  • A Danish Approach to the Arctic (The International Affairs Review)
    10 November, 2020

Announcements

  • Minister Vandal announces appointments to the Board of Directors of Polar Knowledge Canada
    11 November, 2020
  • MEPC75 Webinar: Why the IMO’s draft Arctic HFO regulation will not protect the Arctic, and how to fix it
    11 November, 2020
  • Swedish, Finnish and Russian wolves closely related
    11 November, 2020
  • Scientists Have Discovered an Ancient Lake Bed Deep Beneath the Greenland Ice
    11 November, 2020
  • Sweden’s strategy for the Arctic region 2020
    11 November, 2020
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