News: By Source
On Thursday, five Arctic nations signed a declaration promising their fishing vessels will stay out of a 1.1 million-square-mile zone in the central Arctic Ocean, an area bigger than the Mediterranean Sea.
[ More ]
A new report from the International Council on Clean Transportation on air pollution from ships in the high Arctic warns of huge increases in air pollution from shipping.
[ More ]
For thousands of years, ice and harsh conditions have served as a natural barrier between species from the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans in the northern hemisphere. New research, however, shows that large fish populations will soon be able to make the journey northward and defy the barrier between the Atlantic and the Pacific which could have serious consequences for both fisheries and local ecosystems.
[ More ]
The author evaluates whether the recent increase in Russian militarization of the Arctic poses a threat to the security or environment of the Arctic region.
[ More ]