As energy prices spike and many countries are seeking green alternatives, the issue of strategic materials in the Arctic is moving quickly from abstract question to hard strategy. Which Arctic acto…

The Roundup this week looks at the effects in the European Arctic of ongoing international conflicts, as well as calls from a recent conference in Alaska for greater Indigenous inclusion in regiona…

Debates over language and Indigenous voices, research on the formation of subglacial lakes, and good news about regional wildlife, are all featured in this week’s Roundup.

After a difficult week in global affairs, the Roundup looks at the state of great power security in the Arctic, comments on NATO, and the rules of thumb for polar research.

This week in the Roundup: key elections in Denmark and its effects in Greenland, geopolitics in Svalbard, and marine research developments in the Arctic Ocean.

It’s back! The Arctic News Roundup has returned, covering events from all around the region.

It’s back! Find out how much you know about Iceland in this new quiz about the country!

Nuuk skyline [Photo by Marc Lanteigne] by Marc Lanteigne Initial assessments of US foreign policy as the first year of the second Donald Trump administration drew to a close have included growing c…

The entrance to the 2025 Arctic Circle Assembly venue at Harpa, [Photo by Marc Lanteigne] by Marc Lanteigne 2025 will inevitably be known as a tumultuous year in Arctic politics, and potentially a …

Nordic flags at Stortinget (Norwegian Parliament), in Oslo. [Photo by Marc Lanteigne] by Marc Lanteigne Election season has begun in earnest in Norway, as the country now faces a host of domes…

Spitsbergen’s western coastline, Svalbard [Photo by Marc Lanteigne] by Marc Lanteigne With record-setting high temperatures being experienced in much of Europe since the month began, the word…

[Photo by Marc Lanteigne] by Marc Lanteigne ‘Assume nothing’ has became the de facto catchphrase to best describe the upcoming parliamentary elections in Canada, to be held on 28 April. Political f…

[Photo by Marc Lanteigne] by Marc Lanteigne It was widely predicted in local and international media that this month’s parliamentary elections in Kalaallit Nunaat / Greenland would be the most&nbsp…

Traffic sign in Nuuk. [Photo by Marc Lanteigne] by Marc Lanteigne This year’s Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromsø began on a hopeful note, (as the city was spared the windstorms which plagued the…

The Government House (Stjórnarráðshúsið) in Reykjavík [Photo by Marc Lanteigne] by Marc Lanteigne After close to seven years of an unusual left-right coalition governing Iceland, voters on 30 Novem…

The election of a convicted felon to the presidency compounds what has already been a fairly disastrous decade for the world's northernmost region.

A bust of Roald Amundsen in the centre of the settlement at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard [Photo by Marc Lanteigne] by Marc Lanteigne Although there remains much conventional wisdom which still considers th…

[Photo by Marc Lanteigne] by Marc Lanteigne For Germany, debates about the evolution of the country’s foreign and security policies are hardly new, and the ‘modern’ era of those deliberat…

The Norwegian government’s plans to open up for mining on the sea floor have been shelved as part of a deal to get its budget through parliament.

Harpa Concert Hall, site of the Arctic Circle Assembly [Photo by Marc Lanteigne] by Marc Lanteigne Since 2022, and arguably even before that, security and ‘hard politics’ issues have been grow…

[Photo by Kevin Doyle via Unsplash] by Marc Lanteigne Much of the world is now bracing for yet another period of uncertainty and potential chaos in the wake of the election victory of Donald Trump …