Arctic

September 2026

• A Skier Goes for a Glacier Walk The Arctic Institute, 29 Sep
• Trump’s Greenland Deal Is a Win. Now for the Hard Part Hudson Institute, 28 Sep
• Making the Greenland Agreement Work: Building Distributed Arctic Deterrence Hudson Institute, 28 Sep
• Security Cooperation Among the Arctic NATO Allies RUSI, 27 Sep
• Five days after the vote, FSB arrests leading election expert The Barents Observer, 25 Sep
• Doctor, 74, volunteers for war as Northern Russia loses medical staff The Barents Observer, 25 Sep
• Kampen om Grønland er ikke over (The struggle over Greenland is far from over) Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 25 Sep
• 'Culture cannot stay silent in wartime' The Barents Observer, 25 Sep
• Sea Ice in the Arctic reaches Annual Minimum Extent for 2026 Arctic Portal, 25 Sep
• The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of September 21, 2026 The Arctic Institute, 25 Sep
• Murmansk governor and major general give up seats in regional parliament The Barents Observer, 24 Sep
• Greenland, Denmark and US Sign Arctic Security Agreement, Naming Two Future Defence Locations Arctic Portal, 24 Sep
• As Arctic sea ice reaches this year’s low, shipping reaches historic high The Barents Observer, 24 Sep
• Sara Olsvig Appointed Senior Emissary for the Central Arctic Ocean Arctic Portal, 24 Sep
• Ted Stevens Center schedules Sept. 29 Arctic science-and-security preview land offset forum, 24 Sep
• USA fikk ikke Grønland, men mineralene er blitt sikkerhetspolitikk (US influence over Greenland shifts to critical minerals) Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 24 Sep
• The EU’s Arctic Problem is not Unanimity. It is a Missing Category RUSI, 23 Sep
• Skogen i klimagassregnskapet: Kort sikt, lang sikt og vanskelige avveininger i norsk LULUCF-politikk (Forests in Norway’s greenhouse gas accounting: Short-term and long-term trade-offs) Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 23 Sep
• Hva er nytt i Grønlandsavtalen? (What the new Greenland deal means) Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 23 Sep
• Three things to know about Trump’s Greenland deal Atlantic Council, 23 Sep
• Barents Pride cancelled The Barents Observer, 23 Sep
• Petermann Glacier Loses 76 km² of Floating Ice in Major Arctic Calving Event Arctic Portal, 23 Sep
• Norway advances three-brigade Army plan as Oslo proposes public-shelter upgrades land offset forum, 22 Sep
• Russia issues arrest warrant against Barents Observer journalist Denis Zagore The Barents Observer, 22 Sep
• A Map of the Arctic Ocean The Arctic Institute, 22 Sep
• “Anyone but United Russia”: How Kirkenes residents voted in the State Duma “election” The Barents Observer, 22 Sep
• In a secret Arctic operation, Putin’s yacht was moved from Severomorsk to Kamchatka The Barents Observer, 21 Sep
• Iceland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs renews cooperation agreement with IACN Arctic Portal, 21 Sep
• Trump’s Greenland Agreement Hudson Institute, 21 Sep
• Greenland, Denmark and US Move Toward New Arctic Security Agreement Arctic Portal, 21 Sep
• ATCO Frontec’s Arctic roles span Nasittuq support, polar radar R&D and a separate Grays Bay investment land offset forum, 20 Sep
• ATCO’s Arctic activities involve distinct companies and partnerships land offset, 20 Sep
• Norway makes it harder for Ukraine to seize Russian ships at Svalbard The Barents Observer, 19 Sep
• What the Greenland deal means for the transatlantic alliance Atlantic Council, 19 Sep
• Finland’s first F-35s arrive in Rovaniemi, but Norwegian airspace approval for East Finnmark remains uncertain The Barents Observer, 19 Sep
• Northern Notes 65: Updates from the Arctic Social Sciences Community Arctic Portal, 18 Sep
• – USA har rettet oppmerksomheten mot feil del av Arktis (US Arctic security focus may be looking in the wrong place) Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 18 Sep
• Warriors on the ballot The Barents Observer, 18 Sep
• Oil for the Inner Circle The Barents Observer, 18 Sep
• The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of September 14, 2026 The Arctic Institute, 18 Sep
• European Arctic Summit Outlines New Priorities for the Arctic Arctic Portal, 18 Sep
• Rescues, Rockets, and the Ring of Fire Ted Stevens Center, 17 Sep
• Coherent, credible and comprehensive or diffuse and ineffective? The energy poverty policy mix in Norway during geopolitical changes Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 17 Sep
• The Arctic Institute’s 2026 Connecting the Cryosphere Series: An Introduction The Arctic Institute, 17 Sep
• NATO and Ted Stevens Center complete virtual Arctic-security course land offset forum, 16 Sep
• The Teetering State of Norwegian-Russian Management Cooperation of Northeast Arctic Cod Stocks The Arctic Institute, 15 Sep
• CEPA assessment frames Russia’s Arctic posture as fortress, frontline and contested space land offset forum, 15 Sep
• Operation Atlantic City 26: A Reminder That Allied Cooperation Remains Key to America’s Security Hudson Institute, 14 Sep
• The EU’s Arctic problem won’t go away without Norway, Iceland and UK’s help Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 14 Sep
• Reuters reports a disrupted GUGI cable-sabotage exercise near Svalbard—what the evidence establishes land offset forum, 13 Sep
• NATO tests Arctic AI, sensors and uncrewed systems in Task Force X trials land offset forum, 13 Sep
• Russia’s Heroes of the Fog runs Arctic autonomous test with surveillance tasks land offset forum, 12 Sep
• Misvisende om situasjonen i Barentsburg (Misleading claims about Barentsburg supply situation) Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 11 Sep
• Sea change: America’s new great game in the Arctic Circle Atlantic Council, 11 Sep
• The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of September 7, 2026 The Arctic Institute, 11 Sep
• Iceland Puts the Freeze on Brussels’ “Ever Closer Union” Heritage Foundation, 10 Sep
• Reimagining Care: Emerging Urban Inuit Models of Health and Wellbeing in Canada The Arctic Institute, 10 Sep
• Hvem skal få bruke strømmen vår? (Who gets priority when Norway’s power is scarce?) Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 09 Sep
• The Transatlantic Watchtower: Iceland’s Role in Great Power Competition Hudson Institute, 08 Sep
• Legitimacy is an Arctic Security Asset: What Denmark’s Legally Fatherless Greenlanders Reveal about Trust, Sovereignty, and Security in the High North The Arctic Institute, 08 Sep
• Focus on the High North: Upgrading the EU's Arctic policy and protecting the EU's interests in a rapidly evolving region Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 07 Sep
• The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of August 31, 2026 The Arctic Institute, 04 Sep
• How Norway Can Do More To Forestall the Russian Threat Heritage Foundation, 03 Sep
• The Polar Silk Road: nine years on and still not a master plan for the Arctic Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 03 Sep
• Looking north: Arctic security strategy for a new era Atlantic Council, 03 Sep
• Strong Because Weak: Strategic Dependency, Legal Constraints, and Greenland in Contemporary Arctic Geopolitics The Arctic Institute, 03 Sep
• Barentsburg: Caught Between Worlds RUSI, 01 Sep
• Inuit Sovereignty and the Future of the International Order The Arctic Institute, 01 Sep

August 2026

• South 8 plans winter battery testing with Army’s 11th Airborne Division in Alaska land offset forum, 31 Aug
• From Operator to Strategist: An Arctic Journey Ted Stevens Center, 29 Aug
• The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of August 24, 2026 The Arctic Institute, 28 Aug
• Alaska Defense Forum Frames Readiness as an Alaska-Wide Defense Requirement land offset forum, 27 Aug
• The Arctic Institute’s 2026 Polar Disaster Risk Reduction and Response Series: A Conclusion The Arctic Institute, 27 Aug
• Welcoming Our Inaugural Canadian Arctic Fellow: Major Marie-Eve Lemoine Ted Stevens Center, 26 Aug
• Alliance ‘Dots on the Map’: Jan Mayen and the High North Connection RUSI, 26 Aug
• What Iceland’s referendum means for the EU’s future Atlantic Council, 26 Aug
• Cold Reality: Why U.S. Military Arctic Readiness Is (Still) Lagging and What the Pentagon Can Do about It The Arctic Institute, 25 Aug
• Arctic Pacific Security Dialogue 2026 Ted Stevens Center, 24 Aug
• China Adapts to a Colder Arctic Reception Hudson Institute, 24 Aug
• Strategic Insights from the High North: Highlights from the 2026 North American Arctic Field Workshop Ted Stevens Center, 22 Aug
• Analyzing bilateral environmental agreements: The case of mercury cooperation between China and Norway Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 21 Aug
• The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of August 17, 2026 The Arctic Institute, 21 Aug
• Kinas snarvei til Europa er fortsatt på prøvestadiet (China’s Arctic shortcut to Europe is still being tested) Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 20 Aug
• Beyond winning and losing: What Beijing wants from the Iran war Brookings, 20 Aug
• Research, Survey, Espionage: The Securitization of Marine Scientific Research in US Law? The Arctic Institute, 20 Aug
• Local Perspectives in Disaster Risk Reduction: Visualising Disaster Risk in Svalbard The Arctic Institute, 18 Aug
• Virtual Culturally Grounded Interventions for Substance Use in Urban American Indian and Alaska Native Emerging Adults RAND, 17 Aug
• Summer Cohort in Focus: Voices from the Field Ted Stevens Center, 14 Aug
• The EU First Needs an Arctic Map, Then a Real Arctic Strategy Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 14 Aug
• The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of August 10, 2026 The Arctic Institute, 14 Aug
• Iceland’s EU Accession Debate: Domestic Drivers over Geopolitical Concerns The Arctic Institute, 13 Aug
• Northern Approach: What it takes to fuel, fly, and fight in the Arctic Ted Stevens Center, 11 Aug
• Kan vi redde klimaet ved å hogge skogen? (Will logging help or hurt Norway’s climate goals?) Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 11 Aug
• Great Power Competition in the Arctic and the Role of India Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 11 Aug
• Changing Dynamics in the Arctic: Actors and Alliances Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 11 Aug
• Arctic Geopolitics: A Subregional Approach to Security and Geography Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 11 Aug
• Choosing the Bear: Navigating Spectacular Risks in Longyearbyen The Arctic Institute, 11 Aug
• An update on Europe’s Russia sanctions Brookings, 06 Aug
• Sovereignty Below the Threshold: Why Arctic Security Demands a Nordic Economic Strategy The Arctic Institute, 06 Aug
• Can Europe survive China Shock 2.0? Brookings, 05 Aug
• Keeping an Eye on Iceland: Volcanoes and Climate Change The Arctic Institute, 04 Aug

July 2026

• There Is No Such Thing as 'Arctic Geopolitics' Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 31 Jul
• High-Level Engagements: Bolstering Homeland Defense and Arctic Security Ted Stevens Center, 30 Jul
• AI’s Arctic Land Grab The Arctic Institute, 30 Jul
• A Framework for Avoiding Polar Disasters The Arctic Institute, 28 Jul
• Norsk-russisk forvaltningssamarbeid i Barentshavet gjennom 50 år Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 27 Jul
• TSC Previews 2026 Dialogue: Homeland Defense from America’s Arctic Ted Stevens Center, 21 Jul
• Legal Preparedness for One Health in Polar Regions: Strengthening Disease Surveillance The Arctic Institute, 21 Jul
• Tending the planetary: Toward an ecology of institutions for Earth system tipping points Brookings, 20 Jul
• Nordic Minilateralism: How Finland and Sweden Are Quietly Redefining EU-NATO Cooperation in the North The Arctic Institute, 16 Jul
• How to Deliver on NATO 3.0 RAND, 15 Jul
• U.S. Research Vessels and Scientific Leadership in Antarctica Congressional Research Service, 15 Jul
• IISS Report Assesses Kremlin Coordinated UAV Campaign Over Europe land offset forum, 15 Jul
• New Paper Argues Russia's Arctic Strategy Driven by Durable Networks Beyond Putin land offset forum, 15 Jul
• Icebergs and Navigation Safety in Antarctica: Possible Impact of new Sea-Ice Regime in the Southern Ocean and South Atlantic Ocean The Arctic Institute, 14 Jul
• Trump Calls for Control of Greenland Again Hudson Institute, 13 Jul
• From Pandemic to Permafrost: Legal Pathways for One Health Preparedness in Arctic Communities The Arctic Institute, 09 Jul
• Norway Helped Manage a Soviet Nuclear Legacy for 25 Years. Russia’s War Changed Everything RUSI, 08 Jul
• US Strikes Iran and President Trump Renews Push for Greenland Hudson Institute, 08 Jul
• NATO’s new Arctic presence shows that European allies are stepping up Atlantic Council, 06 Jul
• Critical minerals in the Arctic Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 01 Jul

June 2026

• NATO Awakens in the High North: Arctic Sentry and the Hague Summit Commitments land offset forum, 29 Jun
• NATO's Arctic Sentry and the High North Strategy: A Fact-Pattern Analysis of the 2025 Hague Summit and Its Operational Aftermath land offset forum, 29 Jun
• Polar Icebreakers as a Test-Bed for US Shipbuilding Competitiveness land offset forum, 28 Jun
• Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter and Arctic Security Cutter Icebreaker Programs land offset forum, 28 Jun
• Arctic Energetics: Renewable Energy and Local Communities in Northern Norway land offset forum, 28 Jun
• The Emerging Importance of Space in the Arctic land offset forum, 28 Jun
• NATO Enlargement to Sweden and Finland land offset forum, 28 Jun
• National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A): A Summary land offset forum, 28 Jun · Congressional Research Service
• Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies: Five-Year Anniversary — Establishment, Leadership, and Operations land offset forum, 27 Jun
• European Hydrogen Policy Report: Germany, Netherlands, France, United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 26 Jun
• The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of June 22, 2026 The Arctic Institute, 26 Jun
• Risk Analysis of Infrastructure Vulnerability and Sustainable Resource Exploitation in the Arctic The Arctic Institute, 25 Jun · land offset forum
• Why China plays by the rules in the Arctic Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 24 Jun · land offset forum
• The Circumpolar Podcast – China and Arctic Law The Arctic Institute, 24 Jun
• The Faroe Islands in WTO? A Path to Sovereignty and Recognition or Paradiplomatic Crisis with Denmark over the Arctic? The Arctic Institute, 23 Jun
• An Introduction to Arctic Governance and Geopolitics Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 22 Jun
• Arctic Energetics: Renewable Energy Projects Meet Local Communities in Norway Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 19 Jun
• The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of June 15, 2026 The Arctic Institute, 19 Jun
• Arctic Connections Podcast: U.S.-Canada Security Cooperation in the North American Arctic land offset forum, 18 Jun
• The Circumpolar Podcast – AMAP and the Climate Data Dilemma The Arctic Institute, 17 Jun
• The NORAD-USNORTHCOM Command Obligated Research and Experimentation (CORE) Program: RDT&E Opportunities and Application Procedures land offset forum, 16 Jun
• NORAD-USNORTHCOM CORE Program: Open RDT&E Opportunities and Submission Procedures land offset forum, 16 Jun
• Canadian Domestic Arctic Mobility Enhancement (DAME) Project and BAE Systems BVS10 Beowulf Competitive Dynamics land offset forum, 16 Jun
• The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of June 8, 2026 The Arctic Institute, 12 Jun
• The Arctic Ocean and the WTO Fisheries Subsidies Agreement The Arctic Institute, 11 Jun · land offset forum
• The Circumpolar Podcast – Don’t bury the Arctic Council yet The Arctic Institute, 10 Jun
• Disaster Risk Reduction and Response: Greenland The Arctic Institute, 09 Jun
• Shorebirds ingest plastics too Arctic Council, 09 Jun
• Radiological/Nuclear Risk Assessment in the Arctic Full Technical Report Arctic Council, 09 Jun
• Ukraine, Iran, and the strains on Russian and American power Brookings, 08 Jun
• Chokepoints and coercion: Iran's challenge to maritime openness Brookings, 08 Jun
• The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of June 1, 2026 The Arctic Institute, 05 Jun
• Handbook Exercise 'Arctic-2014' Murmansk June 23-24, 2014 Arctic Council, 05 Jun
• Final Report. Exercise “Arctic-2012”. Saida-Bay, Murmanskregion. June 19-21, 2012 Arctic Council, 05 Jun
• Appendix IV: Operational Guidelines 2023, Agreement on Cooperation on Marine Oil Pollution Preparedness & Response in the Arctic Arctic Council, 05 Jun
• Signal: MG Cogbill / 11th Airborne Division — 'Down from Heaven, Arctic Tough' (Arctic Angels Operational Posture, June 2026) [High North] land offset forum, 05 Jun
• CBMP-Terrestrial North American Scoping Workshop Ottawa, Canada 14-16 January 2025 Arctic Council, 04 Jun
• CBMP Terrestrial Nordic Scoping Workshop- Copenhagen, Denmark 20-22 November 2024 Arctic Council, 04 Jun
• Signal: Ted Stevens Center — Ukraine Drone Warfare Lessons for the Arctic (June 17 Event, Nolan Peterson / IWC) land offset forum, 04 Jun
• Research: Virginia Tech — Inuit Food Systems, Climate Change, and Cross-Continental Indigenous Knowledge Exchange (Pangnirtung, Nunavut) land offset forum, 04 Jun
• The Circumpolar Podcast – Japan & South Korea in the Arctic The Arctic Institute, 03 Jun
• NSF commits $8B to sustain U.S. scientific presence in Antarctica NSF, 02 Jun
• Crisis Management in Arctic Communities: Principles of Crisis Response The Arctic Institute, 02 Jun
• Opportunity: CCIC2S Modernization RFI — NORAD Missile Warning C2 System [FA8723-26-R-B002_PA-1933] land offset forum, 02 Jun
• Opportunity: North Warning System (NWS) Rotary Airlift Services — USAF Arctic Radar Support [FA489026R0015] land offset forum, 02 Jun
• Opportunity: Commercial Solutions Opening — Data & Analytics for Maritime Domain Awareness [N6600126SC036] land offset forum, 02 Jun
• Opportunity: Blue Tide 2026 — Navy Maritime Tech Demonstration, Newport RI [N66604-BlueTideAUG2026] land offset forum, 02 Jun
• Opportunity: Individual Multispectral Camouflage (IMSC) — Arctic/Cold Environment Requirement [SCIE RFI] land offset forum, 02 Jun

May 2026

• Murres in a Changing North Atlantic: Building Shared Understanding for Sustainable Harvest and Conservation Workshop Arctic Council, 29 May
• A framework for US-Japan cooperation in the Arctic Atlantic Council, 28 May
• The Circumpolar Podcast – Italy in the Arctic The Arctic Institute, 27 May
• An Incomplete Renewal: The Case for an Arctic Dimension to the Lancaster House Treaties The Arctic Institute, 26 May · land offset forum
• The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 18 May, 2026 The Arctic Institute, 22 May
• Purchasing Greenland: Trump’s Fantasy or a Real National Security Stake for the United States? The Arctic Institute, 21 May
• The Circumpolar Podcast – Hybrid Threats in the Arctic The Arctic Institute, 20 May
• A framework for US-Japan cooperation in the Arctic Atlantic Council, 19 May
• The Arctic Institute’s 2026 Polar Disaster Risk Reduction and Response Series: An Introduction The Arctic Institute, 19 May
• The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 11 May, 2026 The Arctic Institute, 15 May
• A US and allied strategy for Greenland Atlantic Council, 13 May · land offset forum
• Marine Invasive Alien Species In Arctic Waters Arctic Council, 12 May

April 2026

• Russia’s approach to Northeast Asia in wartime Brookings, 30 Apr
• ACAP Progress Report to Senior Arctic Officials. 11-12 November 2009. Arctic Council, 27 Apr
• Joint Advisory from the Arctic Regional Hydrographic Commission and the Arctic Council’s Working Group on the Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment Arctic Council, 23 Apr
• Arctic Oil Spill Research and Development Workshop Report 2025 Arctic Council, 22 Apr
• Arctic Emergency Management Conference 2025 Evaluation Report Arctic Council, 21 Apr
• ASSR #6 – Small ships in the Arctic Arctic Council, 15 Apr
• PAME Working Group Meeting Reports Arctic Council, 10 Apr
• Improving waste management practices on board fishing vessels in the Arctic – Outcome report from PAME Workshop Arctic Council, 10 Apr
• Synthesis Report on Ecosystem Status, Human Impacts and Management Measures in the Central Arctic Ocean (CAO-SR) Arctic Council, 08 Apr
• Peril and possibility: Collapsing old order, emerging disorder, or new order? Brookings, 03 Apr

March 2026

• The Arctic Council: A Quick Quide Arctic Council, 21 Mar
• ACS Annual Report 2025 Arctic Council, 20 Mar
• A Scoping Assessment of Solid Waste Management in Small and Remote Arctic Communities Arctic Council, 20 Mar
• Analysis of Potential Radiological Consequences of Selected Emergencies Relevant for the Arctic Region – Factsheet Arctic Council, 10 Mar

February 2026

• Validation of the IMO Polar Code Survival Time Study – Factsheet Arctic Council, 20 Feb
• The Polar Vortex: Background and Forecasting Congressional Research Service, 06 Feb · land offset forum
• The increase in Arctic Shipping: 2013-2025 Arctic Council, 05 Feb
• Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Status of Oil and Gas Program Congressional Research Service, 04 Feb · land offset forum

January 2026

• Greenland, Denmark, and U.S. Relations Congressional Research Service, 22 Jan · land offset forum