On our way home (Photo: Anders Sandberg) Kiruna, Sweden, is perhaps the epitome of a company town. In 1899, a year before the mine that is today the world’s largest underground iron-ore mine opened near what is today Kiruna, it had a population of 18. Today, the...
All hands on deck, but still lacking decks to man (Photo: US Coast Guard) Russia has one. So, too, does Sweden. In fact, seven of the eight countries with territory in the Arctic, and indeed a lot of countries that don’t, have an Arctic ambassador. Only the US does...
He sees a more dangerous Arctic (Photo: Nato) It is not every day that a Nato secretary-general makes a visit to Canada. Indeed, the visit last week by Jens Stoltenberg was the first since he took over as the alliance’s leader in 2014. Rarer still is a visit to...
Command, but also control (Photo: Nato) Greenland is a part of Denmark, and Denmark is a member of Nato. Greenland, thus, according to the maths of collective defence, is a member of Nato. That means that, were Greenland ever attacked, the other members of the...
Where the Brooks Range ends, and the conflict begins (Photo: Fred Paillet) A week after two oil companies said they were ready to move ahead with a major oil project in northern Alaska, a third said it was ending its exploration activities, leaving only a state...
