Elsewhere…

Looking Back on the Year that Was in the Arctic,’ [Cryopolitics]
Russian Legislators Ban Foreign Shipments of Oil, Natural Gas and Coal along Northern Sea Route,’ [The Independent Barents Observer]
Algae Growth Speeds Up Greenland’s Melting,’ [Scientific American]
Arctic Dilemma: Scientists Came to Explore Canadian Arctic but Their Work Could Also Change Its Future,’ [National Post (Canada)]
Trump’s National Security Strategy Mentions the Arctic, but Not Climate Change,’ [High North News]
Russia to Focus on Beefing Up Military Infrastructure in Arctic and on Western Border,’ [TASS]
The Strange Reinvention of Icelandic,’ [The Economist]