The territorial dispute between Russia and Ukraine, which has been going on since the illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, is now starting to show effects also far away from the battlefields of Eastern Ukraine: in the waters of the Arctic Ocean, off the shores of Russia's far north....

There is no single treaty regulating the Arctic Ocean, nor a regional seas programme. Written in 2015, this article was intended to show how there existed, during the Obama administration, the possibility to create a legally binding treaty protecting the Arctic marine environment. Today (2019),...

Climate change is opening new sea routes in the Arctic Ocean. The Northern Sea Route (NSR), along Russia's Arctic shore, is particularly important in this regard. While in recent weeks some shipping companies have pledged to refrain from shipping through the Arctic, due to the environmental...

The Arctic is sparsely populated and many rural areas of the Arctic suffer from a demographic decline. On the other hand has the Arctic long attracted outside interest and in recent years the countries of the European High North have become important migrant destinations. Simultaneously, many...

The tourism industry currently sees two major trends: Arctic tourism and cruise tourism. The combination of these trends means a dramatic growth in the number of tourists who visit remote Arctic and sub-Arctic communities, often just for one day or a few hours. The economic benefits of such...

In the Arctic, climate change is a reality already today (Fountain, 2021). Anthropogenic climate change leads to warmer temperatures in the Arctic three times as fast as the global average (Deshayes, 2021). Climate change has multiple impacts on the daily lives of those who call the Arctic their...