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[Photo by Marc Lanteigne] by Mingming Shi 1) As the Guardian news service revealed in an exposé, clothes laundering in Europe and North America are the probable sources of microplastic fibres being found in the Arctic Ocean. As researchers have argued, this plastic pollution is not only damaging to the natural environment, but is also… Continue reading Arctic News Roundup: 11-17 January →

The National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, Goa [Photo by Goan VR via Wikimedia Commons] by Marc Lanteigne India was one of the five Asian governments which were accepted by the Arctic Council as formal observers in 2013, along with China, Japan, Singapore and South Korea. Although Beijing received most of the international attention… Continue reading Pole to Pole: India’s Arctic White Paper →

Nuuk, Greenland [Photo by amanderson2 via Wikimedia Commons] by Mingming Shi On 8 December 2020, Mette Frederiksen, the Prime Minister of Denmark, formally apologised on behalf of her government for a so-called ‘cultural experiment’, (kulturmut tunngatillugu misiliineq in Greenlandic; kulturelt eksperiment in Danish), which took place starting in 1951. That year, twenty-two Greenlandic children were… Continue reading From Denmark to Greenland, A Long-Awaited Apology →

The team at Over the Circle would like to send warm thanks to its readers, and we look forward to continuing to provide news and commentary from all around the changing Arctic in 2021. Happy Holidays /  Joyeuses Fêtes / ᑯᕕᐊᓇᒃ ᐃᓄᕕᐊ to everyone, and all the best for a safe and Happy New Year!

[Photo by Marc Lanteigne] by Marc Lanteigne The last quarter of 2020 has witnessed a flurry of activity in the area of Arctic governance and cooperation, including the recent publication of revised regional white papers by both Norway [in Norwegian] and Sweden, (with an updated Arctic policy from Denmark soon to follow). As well, it… Continue reading The Road to Reykjavík: 2021 in Arctic Governance →