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Arctic Security and Dialogue: Assurance through Defence Diplomacy
Authors: Troy J. Bouffard, Elizabeth Buchanan & Michael Young*
For over two decades, key stakeholders have been confident that the Arctic Council was the appropriate...
Norilsk Nickel has a permafrost monitoring plan
Russian nickel and palladium producer will monitor the state of permafrost
Russia's Norilsk Nickel, a major global nickel and palladium producer, has created an environmental...
Melting Ice on the Roof of the World: Opportunities and Dilemmas in the Arctic Ocean
For centuries humanity has relied upon the ocean for its evolution and sustenance: be it the medium of exploring new lands as done so...
Strategic Partnership, Arctic-Style: How Russia and China Play the Game
Russian-Chinese technical-military cooperation in the 1990s started
when the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) initiated large-scale
rearmament based on Russian technologies. About 80% of Russian armaments...
Connecting the Poles: The importance of collaboration between regions
The
Arctic and Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH), separated by thousands of miles, share
many of the same wonders and challenges, and yet they hardly work together...
How climate is changing politics
In the fall of 2019, Democratic Speaker of the US House of
Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, went on record saying that competition for
resources was turning ecology...
Satellites record second lowest Arctic sea ice extent since 1979
The polar oceans are among the most rapidly changing
oceans in the world. The yearly cycle of the build-up and melting of Arctic sea
ice is...
Dying Wildlife on a Warming Planet
Authors: Meena Miriam Yust and Arshad M. Khan
The emaciated polar bear, a sorry remnant of
magnificence, raiding garbage cans in an iconic, even infamous photo,...
Reassessing Maritime Dynamics of the Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is defined by the
International Hydrographic Organization (IHO), to consist of the circular
portion of waters around the geographical North Pole. It does...
Battle for the Arctic: Friends and foes
According to Western media, the "struggle for the Arctic" is
becoming ever more fierce. Moreover, this confrontation is unfolding much
faster than expected.
In its recent publication...