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India in the Arctic?
Just dug up an interesting piece on India’s growing interest in the Arctic, which identifies three core rationales: a desire to study climate change, oil and gas exploration (India already participates in exploration off the coast of Russia’s Sakhalin island), and broader geo-strategic goals (India has aspirations to eventually join the Arctic Council). As Arctic ice continues to recede, expect a broader range of countries – many of whom one would not normally put in the same sentence as “Arctic” – to turn their attention northward.
Strategic Implications of an Open Arctic: A Conversation with Norwegian Ambassador Strommen
This is a cross-post from CSIS’ Asia Policy Blog
Strategic Implications of an Open Arctic – Part 2
By Eddie Walsh
[Editor’s Note: The following is the second post in a series on the Strategic Implications of an Open Arctic for the Pacific. You can read part one here] (more…)
Thawing Ice and Data in the Arctic: Navies Uncover Vital Climate Information
Both the UK and the U.S. Navies are cooperating with scientists to share climate data collected in the Arctic. Naval submarines have spent the better part of the last few decades trawling the depths of the cold waters. With a changing climate, both physical and political, and melting ice in the Arctic, the data collected during such missions is now an invaluable tool to those trying to get a better, more accurate understanding of what exactly is happening up there. (more…)