What Danish climate migration drama, Families Like Ours, gets wrong about rising sea levels

International migration from climate change is the exception, not the norm.

Florian Steig, DPhil Student, Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford • conversation
June 27, 2025 • ~6 min

US and Russia squabble over Arctic security as melting ice opens up shipping routes

Melting ice in the Arctic is opening up shipping routes and making the region a valuable strategic asset.

Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham • conversation
April 4, 2025 • ~9 min

Trump’s Greenland bid is really about control of the Arctic and the coming battle with China

Trump’s bid to buy Greenland is partly based on security concerns about Chinese and Russian access to the Arctic.

Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham • conversation
Jan. 9, 2025 • ~7 min

Net zero: Copenhagen's failure to meet its 2025 target casts doubt on other major climate plans

The Danish capital reneged on its net zero target after an incinerator failed to secure state aid.

Inge-Merete Hougaard, Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Ecology, Lund University • conversation
Sept. 13, 2022 • ~8 min

How treaties protecting fossil fuel investors could jeopardize global efforts to save the climate – and cost countries billions

A new study adds up the potential legal and financial risk countries could face from hundreds of agreements, like those under the Energy Charter Treaty.

Kyla Tienhaara, Canada Research Chair in Economy and Environment, Queen's University, Ontario • conversation
May 5, 2022 • ~9 min

Why freezing the Arctic Council is bad news for global security

The Arctic Council was the world’s primary forum for cooperation among the eight Arctic nations and a channel for diplomacy – until Russia launched a war.

Gabriella Gricius, Graduate Fellow with North American and Arctic Defense Security Network, PhD Candidate in Political Science, Colorado State University • conversation
April 20, 2022 • ~7 min

Solar farms, power stations and water treatment plants can be attractions instead of eyesores

Are facilities that produce necessities like energy and clean water doomed to be ugly? Not when artists and landscape architects help design them.

Margaret Birney Vickery, Lecturer in Art History, University of Massachusetts Amherst • conversation
May 15, 2020 • ~9 min

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