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
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,
The long road back
Analysis | Reykjavík is shedding its capital controls, but the economic collapse of 2008 will see Iceland re-emerge onto a considerably different landscape Marc Lanteigne
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
North by north-east
Analysis | Beijing has been seeking to deepen its engagement of the Far North. A recently concluded symposium in Shanghai provides some insight into the direction
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
A ‘ludicrous, ignorant and insensitive’ attitude towards sled dogs
Opinion | Nunavut’s treatment of Inuit sled dogs smacks of the very same conduct demonstrated by early explorers and traders claiming land and resources as
Putting profit before people in the hunt for Arctic oil
Opinion | Inuit concerns over seismic testing in Canada’s part of the Baffin Bay are being brushed aside, putting not just the Arctic at risk,
Not now. But soon?
Weekly Cover | As a federal court says it will expedite a challenge to seismic testing in Canada’s Baffin Bay more bedfellows are joining the
Next stop: New Arctic
Before space was the final frontier, there was the Arctic. The lessons learned by the explorers of yore may prove valuable for tomorrow’s spacefarers