STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden will allow NATO to base troops on its territory even before it formally joins the defence alliance, the prime minister and defence minister said on Friday. Sweden applied last year to join NATO as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Objections from Turkey and Hungary have delayed the bid and Sweden now hopes to join The post NATO may base troops in Sweden before Stockholm joins, government says appeared first on ArcticToday ..read more

Alaska’s state budget for the next fiscal year hasn’t even been signed into law yet, but its expectations for oil revenue may already be out of date. On Tuesday, the U.S. Energy Information Administration raised its estimates for oil prices in the second half of this year and in 2024. The revised estimate came two days after The post Saudi Arabia’s oil production cut could affect Alaska’s state finances appeared first on ArcticToday ..read more

The Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in summer by the 2030s, even if we do a good job of reducing emissions between now and then. That’s the worrying conclusion of a new study in Nature Communications. Predictions of an ice-free Arctic Ocean have a long and complicated history, and the 2030s is sooner than most scientists The post Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in summer by 2030s, say scientists appeared first on ArcticToday ..read more

“Their actions are contrary to the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations,” according to the statement which was published shortly after Finnish President Sauli Niinisto had his meeting with the Government’s Foreign and Security Ministerial Committee on Tuesday. The meeting discussed the current security situation in Europe amid Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine and the explosion of the The post Finland expels nine Russian diplomats appeared first on ArcticToday ..read more

There are currently more NATO fighter jets above the Arctic Circle than at any time since the breakup of the Soviet Union. A record high 150 jets from 14 nations are currently training in the skies over Norrbotten, northern Sweden, including sorties from the air bases at Rovaniemi and Pirkkala in Finland and Ørland in The post Carrier USS Ford is now operating inside the Arctic Circle appeared first on ArcticToday ..read more

The report was on 1st of June handed over to the Norwegian Storting by Dagfinn Høybråten, leader of the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It has taken the 12-person expert group five years to complete the report that was commissioned by the parliament in 2018. The legislators wanted a historical mapping of the government policy towards the The post Norway’s injustice against minorities laid out in new landmark report appeared first on ArcticToday ..read more

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – The Faroe Islands said on Thursday it would tightly restrict access to its ports by Russian fishing trawlers, after Norwegian police said some that docked there regularly were carrying military radio equipment. Faroese authorities initially tightened inspections of fishing and transport vessels in response to the police comments, reported in April by The post Faroe Islands tightly restricts port access for Russian trawlers appeared first on ArcticToday ..read more

On board a Russian fishing vessel  “This is the steering wheel and this is where you control the speed.” Alexey Reginya, the captain of the Russian fishing vessel “Yantarny” shows me the ship’s bridge. This huge vessel, built in the 1980s, rises high in the harbour of the arctic Norwegian town Kirkenes, The post “The trust is gone” – tensions on the rise in Norway after more restrictions for Russian fishing vessels appeared first on ArcticToday ..read more

OSLO (Reuters) – The U.S. will open its northernmost diplomatic station in the Norwegian Arctic town of Tromsoe, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday, at a time when cooperation among the Arctic nations has been hit by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The region is becoming strategically more important as a shrinking ice cap The post US to open diplomatic station in Arctic Norway, says Blinken appeared first on ArcticToday ..read more

The 158 meter long and 22,661 ton heavy ship will enable Rosatom to replace nuclear fuel at its new fleet of icebreakers, as well as small-scale floating nuclear power plant Akademik Lomonosov. The multi-purpose vessel will have ice-class Arc5 and be able to operate in harsh Arctic waters. It will replace Imandra, the more than 40 year old The post Russia’s new storage vessel for spent nuclear fuel is designed for sailing in Arctic sea-ice appeared first on ArcticToday ..read more