...Mia M. Bennett The snow-white Arctic is darkening physically and economically. Climate change is turning frozen seas into open water and blackening snow and ice as soot spreads and algae propagates. At the same time, the region’s shadow economy is expanding. Illicit activities like human...

... people envision a white frozen land, empty save for the gulag. To the contrary, it is a patchwork of arctic and subarctic ecosystems that represent a sampling of most world re- gions in the same latitude. The second point to keep in mind as we explore climate change adaptation in the Russian north...

...Pavel K. Baev [P]olicies based on the delusional but popular perception of the Arctic shelf as a ‘treasure chest’ of high-value resources that must be protected by military means have arrived at an inevitable dead end. © 2013 Current History. All rights reserved. 2013 The Regents...

... David O'Reilly Arctic 24 The transition from an easy to a tough resource era will come at a high price. The End of Easy Everything michael t. Klare According to some experts, many of the world s key energy and mineral supplies are being rapidly depleted and will soon be exhausted. Other experts...