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Whaling activities have resumed in Iceland and Japan, and the world speaks out. Does it?

Dr Nikolas Sellheim Director, Sellheim Environmental Fellow, Polar Research and Policy Initiative Introduction Whaling in 2023 still constitutes an activity

The Sidelining of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in CITES Media Coverage

Photo: Ng Swan Ti / Oxfam. Dr Nikolas Sellheim Director, Sellheim Environmental Fellow, Polar Research and Policy Initiative The fall

Arctic Media Hotline and Observatory

Polar Research and Policy Initiative (PRPI) launches Arctic Media Hotline and Observatory to improve Arctic media coverage Project Lead: Dr

Czech-Arctic Connections: Interview with Amb. Zdeněk Lyčka

Photo by Hasse Ferrold. Alisa Musanovic I’m with Zdeněk Lyčka, who is the co-ordinator of the annual Czech Arctic Festival.

The Ukraine Invasion signals an earthquake in Arctic and Nordic politics

A member of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine stands inside the damaged Kharkiv regional administration building in the aftermath

Nordic Plus: International Cooperation in the Arctic enters a New Era

Image: 11th Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting. © Arctic Council/Flickr. Prof Dr Stefan Kirchner MJI Research Professor of Arctic Law; Head

It’s time for an Arctic Council 2.0

The flags of the Arctic Council member states and permanent participants. (Linnea Nordström / Arctic Council Secretariat) Alice Rogoff For

UK-Arctic Trade and Investment Observatory

Greenwich Park, with the City of London in the background. Project Lead: Dr Dwayne Ryan Menezes Project Team: Mikhail Radkevitch, Helena Roberts,

Livelihood, cruelty, extinction? The recent killings of Atlantic white-sided dolphins in the Faroe Islands

Image by Annie Spratt from Unsplash. Dr Nikolas Sellheim Dr Nikolas Sellheim investigates and evaluates the international outcry in response

A RARE Opportunity: How Greenland came to be central to the Biden Presidency

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Greenlandic Minister of Foreign Affairs, Business, Trade, and Climate Pele Broberg; Faroese Minister of

A Snapshot: UK-Faroe Islands Trade Relations

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Shaan Afzal-Khan Expanding on our UK-Arctic Trade and Investment Observatory, we are now building a collage of all the relevant

Kingdom of Denmark: Measures to Address Coronavirus Pandemic

Shaan Afzal-Khan Expanding on our UK-Arctic Coronavirus Observatory, we are now compiling all of the relevant COVID-19 information pertaining to

The Ellett Line: Scotland’s Decades of Subpolar Marine Observation

RRS Discovery Scientific Cruise DY052 – The Extended Ellett Line. ukosnap.wordpress.com/ © Captain Smurf/Flickr. Erin Willahan On Monday, 23 September 2019, the

Maritime Futures 2035: The Arctic Region. SALIENSEAS Scenario Workshop, Denmark

Doug Cost, Assistant Professor, at University of Alaska Fairbanks, at the 2018 SALIENSEAS Scenario Workshop Dr Berill Blair On 13

The Arkansas Cotton in Trump’s Woolly Greenland Linen

Dr Dwayne Ryan Menezes The Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen might have dismissed Trump’s plan to purchase Greenland as “absurd”,

Embassy of Iceland to the UK and PRPI host Evening on Sustainable Arctic Tourism in London

On 26 June 2019, Polar Research and Policy Initiative (PRPI) had the great pleasure of hosting an evening on Sustainable

Sustainable Tourism Development in the Nordic Arctic: Proceedings of 2019 Iceland Workshop

Since 2018, Polar Research and Policy Initiative (PRPI) has joined forces with the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) to host

Commercial Sealers under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants

Woodstock in northern Newfoundland. © Nikolas Sellheim Nikolas Sellheim On 17 December 2018, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted

Dr Nikolas Sellheim on The Seal Hunt: Cultures, Economies and Legal Regimes

Trade and the Canadian North

(L to R) Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Mexican Minister of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo

Whaling activities have resumed in Iceland and Japan, and the world speaks out. Does it?

The Sidelining of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in CITES Media Coverage

Arctic Media Hotline and Observatory

Czech-Arctic Connections: Interview with Amb. Zdeněk Lyčka

The Ukraine Invasion signals an earthquake in Arctic and Nordic politics

Nordic Plus: International Cooperation in the Arctic enters a New Era

It’s time for an Arctic Council 2.0

UK-Arctic Trade and Investment Observatory

Livelihood, cruelty, extinction? The recent killings of Atlantic white-sided dolphins in the Faroe Islands

A RARE Opportunity: How Greenland came to be central to the Biden Presidency

A Snapshot: UK-Faroe Islands Trade Relations

Kingdom of Denmark: Measures to Address Coronavirus Pandemic

The Ellett Line: Scotland’s Decades of Subpolar Marine Observation

Maritime Futures 2035: The Arctic Region. SALIENSEAS Scenario Workshop, Denmark

The Arkansas Cotton in Trump’s Woolly Greenland Linen

Embassy of Iceland to the UK and PRPI host Evening on Sustainable Arctic Tourism in London

Sustainable Tourism Development in the Nordic Arctic: Proceedings of 2019 Iceland Workshop

Commercial Sealers under the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants

Dr Nikolas Sellheim on The Seal Hunt: Cultures, Economies and Legal Regimes

Trade and the Canadian North

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