Arctic Today’s most popular LinkedIn posts of 2024

By Arctic Today December 30, 2024
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To reflect our growing social media presence. we’ve rounded up the stories that had the biggest impact on LinkedIn this year.

President Donald J. Trump salutes the 195 cadets during the 136th U.S. Coast Guard Academy Commencement in New London, Conn., May 17, 2017. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Patrick Kelley

1. What a second Trump administration might mean for icebreakers: Commentary
Posted: November 2024
Summary: In his article, Peter Rybski reminded us of Donald Trump’s 2017 pledge to to deliver the U.S.’s first new heavy icebreakers in more than 40 years. As he prepares to return to the White House, can Trump finally make good on that promise? The early signs are encouraging, Rybski wrote.

Exploration helicopter on top of the Nalunaq Mountain. (Amaroq Minerals)

2. Investors rush to Amaroq’a golden Greenlandic venture
Posted: March 2024
Summary: Back in March, Eldur Ólafsson – CEO and founder of Amaroq Minerals – spoke to us about Greenland’s vast reserves of untapped minerals. Ólafsson has had his eye on the country’s mineral wealth for over a decade and is now poised to profit from his foresight.

Admiral Rob Bauer on stage at the Arctic Circle Conference, alongside organizer Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson. (Elías Thorsson)

3. NATO admiral Rob Bauer warns of growing military cooperation between Russia and China in the Arctic
Posted: October 2024
Summary: At this year’s Arctic Circle Assembly, Admiral Rob Bauer highlighted the growing threat that Russia and China pose to the Arctic region. Their deepening partnership isn’t just about security, he said; it is also having an impact on shipping and other drivers of the Artic economy.

The Polar Star icebreaker. (USCGC)

4. Finland spent years on icebreaker deal before memorandum with US, Canada
Posted: November 2024
Summary: For our fourth story we return to the subject of icebreakers. In November, Finland moved a step closer to achieving its long-term goal of supplying the U.S. with polar icebreakers. It was the culmination of years of efforts by Finland’s shipbuilding industry to expand into new markets.

Ivan Pavlov. Photo: Thomas Nilsen

5. ‘Darkness is not forever’
Posted: June 2024
Summary: The subject of our last story is Ivan Pavlov, a prominent Russia human-rights lawyer left the country in 2021 after he was accused of disclosing classified information. Despite everything that’s happened to him and the people he has worked for (including Aleksei Navalny), Pavlov hasn’t given up hope of returning to his homeland someday.