Weekly Cover | Oslo’s decision to keep Svalbard’s coal mines running has more to do with hanging on to territory than digging it up
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Too much, too late
Weekly Cover | Ottawa is addressing a lack of marine infrastructure in Nunavut. But some say the funding would be better spent elsewhere
Remote, but no longer terminal
Weekly Cover | Norwegian authorities are recommending that Kirkenes be the site of a new major Arctic port. Making the most of its location, however,
Having your seal and eating it, too
Weekly Cover | In Greenland, seals are eatable and wearable. That is not be enough to make them sellable
Equal, but opposite
Weekly Cover | When foreign activists protest Faroese whale hunts this summer the Faroese will respond by banding together and embracing the tradition even more
A clockwork Arctic
Weekly Cover | In Alaska, a movement is afoot to drop daylight savings time. Rebellious Iceland never adopted it. But most Northern territories prefer to
Irritating the world since 937 (at least)
Weekly Cover | Think a week’s worth of cancelled flights are a pain? Iceland’s volcanoes have been blamed for everything from mass migration to revolution
Footballers on ice
Weekly Cover | The beautiful game faces ugly conditions in Greenland. Communities are trying to do something about that, but it will take an international
Exploring the German Arctic
Weekly Cover | It’s a warming world. Germany is drawing on decades of research to help understand how changing polar climates will affect us all
An entirely different kind of cold war
Weekly Cover | Competition to host your data is tough. Sub-Arctic territories that once assumed their cold climate was advantage enough are now finding they
Powering up a connection to a renewable Europe
Weekly Cover | The prospect of a building a submarine power cable to the UK might enrich the people of Iceland, but opponents fear it
Putting their foot down
Weekly Cover | Neither the people of Iceland nor the country’s government want to join the EU. Voters, though, say it’s their right to be