A new issue of Arctic and North is out. Michael Burger (Roger Williams): The Last, Last Frontier. Asya Pereltsvaig on the growing importance of the Arctic Council. Dru Oja Jay on Nunavut and the future of Canada's Arctic: Inuit challenge Canadian government over failures on Nunavut deal's 20th anniversary. You can download The Fast Changing Arctic: Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World, ed. Barry Scott Zellen. Suzanne on a new use for drones — studying the Arctic: Researchers and universities are using the planes to track the environment, from oil spills to Arctic melt. If you were a pilot flying low over the Arctic, this is what you'd see. The Big Melt: Andrew Curry on the race to find, and save, ancient artifacts emerging from glaciers and ice patches in a warming world. The North Pole isn't melting, but parts of Siberia are baking and burning. Russia moves to promote northeast passage through Arctic Ocean. From Mother Jones, as ice in the fabled Northern Sea Route melts, it could drastically cut shipping times from the Far East to Europe; and how much should you worry about an Arctic methane bomb? Recent warnings that this greenhouse gas could cost us $60 trillion have received widespread publicity — but many scientists are skeptical. Very cold scientists discovered 100,000-year-old fossils of very cold microbes buried underneath the surface of a frozen Antarctic lake — we have not seen the film, but is this or is this not the very plot of The Thing?
