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06.03.2024 - 16:25 [ theHindu.com ]

Why is NATO’s Steadfast Defender 2024 military exercise significant? | Explained

According to NATO, the military exercise incorporates land, air, sea, cyber, and space operations to enhance civil-military cooperation. Over 90,000 troops from 31 NATO allies as well as special invitee Sweden are expected to participate in the exercise over the next few months.

During the first phase (Transatlantic reinforcement) of the exercise, North American forces are scheduled to move to Europe across the Atlantic Ocean. The phase includes live maritime exercises and amphibious assault training in the North Atlantic and Arctic Seas.

24.04.2023 - 08:26 [ ScienceAlert.com ]

Earth‘s Magnetic North Pole Has Shifted So Much We‘ve Had to Update GPS

(Feb 6, 2019)

Scientists on Monday released an emergency update to the World Magnetic Model, which cellphone GPS systems and military navigators use to orient themselves.

It‘s a minor change for most of us – noticeable only to people who are attempting to navigate very precisely very close to the Arctic.

24.04.2023 - 08:12 [ Newsweek ]

Earth‘s Magnetic North Pole Follows ‚Unusual‘ Path, Races Towards Siberia

(23.03.2023)

Experts told Newsweek that the pole could reach the vast Russian region as soon as the middle of the century.

Having said that, the movement of the magnetic north pole is unpredictable and scientists cannot reliably forecast how it will behave beyond a few years into the future. As a result, there is significant uncertainty as to how long it will take to reach Siberia and whether or not it will even get there at all.

28.08.2022 - 12:55 [ ArcticToday.com ]

A sweeping US Senate bill aims to address key Arctic issues

(August 4, 2022)

The bill would establish a year-round presence in Arctic waters while calling for deepwater port investment. The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy would be required to submit a report on establishing and maintaining a permanent presence at ports in Nome, Unalaska, Port Clarence, and potentially other deepwater ports in the American Arctic and sub-Arctic.

28.08.2022 - 12:24 [ ORF.at ]

USA und NATO wollen Präsenz am Nordpol stärken

Washington hatte am Freitag angekündigt, erstmals einen Arktissondergesandten zu ernennen, um „die amerikanischen Interessen und die Zusammenarbeit mit Verbündeten und Partnern in der Arktis“ zu fördern. Der US-Senat muss dem Vorhaben noch zustimmen.

26.07.2021 - 17:23 [ Informationsstelle Militarisierung e.V. ]

Alaska: Dual use

Von Alaska aus könnten die USA in beide Richtungen – gen Arktis und in den Indo-Pazifik – Macht entfalten, so der neue US-Verteidigungsminister Lloyd Austin zur Bedeutung des US-Bundesstaates.

19.05.2021 - 21:28 [ teleSUR ]

What To Expect From Arctic Council Meeting in Iceland?

The 12th Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting is to be held Thursday in Reykjavik, Iceland. As the United States and Russia will use this multilateral stage to have bilateral talks, this year‘s meeting has attracted more attention.

19.05.2021 - 19:27 [ France24 ]

US and Russian foreign ministers to meet in Iceland in bid to ease friction

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russia‘s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are due to hold talks on Wednesday night ahead of a possible presidential summit in June in an attempt to improve the dire relations between the former Cold War foes.

28.04.2021 - 23:37 [ Dave deCamp / Antiwar.com ]

Navy SEALs Shifting Focus Away From Counterterrorism to Face Russia and China

The 2018 National Defense Strategy outlined the US military‘s shift away from counterterrorism towards so-called ‚great power competition‘

23.04.2021 - 14:50 [ Informationsstelle Militarisierung (IMI) ]

Arktis: Toxische Mischung

[…] Die Arktis-Politik der EU stammt aus dem Jahr 2016. Die Überarbeitung soll bis Oktober vorgelegt werden, kündigte der EU-Sonderbeauftragte Michael Mann an, der ebenfalls im Europäischen Parlament anwesend war.“

12.04.2021 - 17:02 [ Rick Rozoff / antikrieg.com ]

Russland alarmiert über Militarisierung der Arktis durch NATO-Staaten

In einem weitaus größeren Maßstab werden die USA am 3. Mai die neueste Variante der Übung „Northern Edge“ in der Arktis in Alaska starten. (Das Pentagon bevorzugte in seiner Erklärung zu den Kriegsspielen den Begriff „High North“). An den Übungen werden 10.000 amerikanische Soldaten teilnehmen, die „üben werden, wie das US-Militär reagieren könnte, wenn die schwelenden Spannungen in der Arktis einen Siedepunkt erreichen.“ Seltsame Wahl der Metaphern angesichts des Schauplatzes.

28.02.2021 - 21:17 [ Trend.az ]

Russia launches its first Arctic-monitoring satellite

The creation of a satellite system in highly elliptical orbits is necessary for information collection to solve operational meteorology and hydrology problems, and monitoring the climate and environment in the Arctic region, it said.

27.02.2021 - 17:20 [ Al Jazeera ]

Inuit voices grow louder in fight over Nunavut mine expansion

As the mayor of Clyde River, a small Inuit hamlet in the territory of Nunavut in northern Canada, Jerry Natanine had seen local opposition to an iron ore mining project building for years.

So, when a group of Inuit hunters this month set up a protest blockade at the Mary River mine on Baffin Island, in the Arctic Archipelago, he was not surprised. “They’re not here to listen to us at all,” Natanine told Al Jazeera in a phone interview, referring to Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation, which runs the site.

23.07.2020 - 12:41 [ Al Jazeera ]

Pompeo visits Denmark after diplomatic spat over Greenland

Pompeo met his Danish counterpart Jeppe Kofod and the country‘s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, in Copenhagen on Wednesday along with foreign affairs representatives for Greenland and the Faroe Islands, also a Danish autonomous territory.

09.03.2020 - 02:20 [ The Barents Observer ]

The dream of an Arctic railway fades as Sami herders signal ‘veto’

A ‘veto’ against the railway by the Sami herders could be the final nail in the coffin for the project. It is unlikely that the Governments of Finland and Norway would invite for a new big conflict with the indigenous peoples up north.

03.10.2019 - 02:23 [ Xinhuanet ]

China‘s research vessel returns to Qingdao after completing Arctic expedition

They also conducted marine surveys in the eastern Bering Sea and the northern Pacific Ocean, expanding China‘s exploration of the Arctic and beyond.

07.06.2019 - 16:30 [ Sputniknews.com ]

Einsatz unter Eis: Nordflotte schickt U-Boote zur Kraftprobe in die Arktis

Es ist schon lange her, dass U-Boote der russischen Nordflotte Waffeneinsätze in arktischer Umgebung trainierten, schreibt die Zeitung. Deswegen standen die Verfolgung und Bekämpfung unter Wasser im Mittelpunkt des Manövers, das im vergangenen Mai im Eismeer stattgefunden hat. Drei Atom-U-Boote – K-114 „Tula“, K-407 „Nowomoskowsk“ und K-560 „Sewerodwinsk“ – entsandte die russische Marine zum Übungseinsatz.