Ice, water, but no people: the misguided "Idea of North"
While many of the movers and shakers in the Arctic world have been attending the Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromsø, Norway this…
San Francisco: The 20th-century golden gateway to the Arctic
In 1936, the newly built Arctic schooner North Star of Herschel Island was loaded from a dock in San Francisco onto a larger…
Along Northern Sea Route, twinned development of shipping and oil
In December, a record heat wave was cascading through the Arctic at a time when snow and ice would normally…