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Discussing the importance of the blue economy to the Arctic

A “polar code” for Arctic shipping is almost in place, but needs more awareness.

The reality is not if there will be an Arctic oil spill due to shipping but when and how frequently such accidents will happen.

If you want a safe, climate-conscious vacation stay close to home rather than cruising the Arctic, says one observer. Meanwhile those who hope to benefit from such cruises say careful advance planning is needed.

Arctic shippers view sea ice as something to be avoided, or where necessary to be broken up to allow ships access. For Arctic wildlife, the ice is a place to use to rest, feed, and give birth. What happens when icebreaker meets ice-dependent species?

Russia needs help if the northern sea route is to be safe and efficient.

What’s thick, sticky, and could have devastating local effects if spilled in the Arctic? The answer is heavy fuel oil (HFO) a shipping fuel used extensively in the Arctic.

Ecosystems may not think, at least not in the way that most people would recognize thinking, but people as essential elements of natural systems do think – and need to think more about how they affect natural systems, and how those natural systems in turn affect them back.

About eighty people from around the word gathered in a room in Reykjavik, Iceland last night, puzzling over where to put new ports and mines in the Arctic.

This editorial by Clive Tesar, Marc-Andre Dubois, and Alexander Shestakov of the WWF Arctic Programe originally appeared in Science issue 6306. Later this month, government science officials from Arctic and other nations will be in Washington, DC, invited by the White House to the first ever Arctic Science Ministerial meeting. The event is framed as a response to […]