Discovering the Arctic is a resource that has been developed in partnership by the Arctic Office/Natural Environment Research Council and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Scottish Association for Marine Science.

The resource contains the following sections:

Introducing the Arctic

  • What and where is the Arctic
  • Countries and peoples of the Arctic
  • The physical landscape
  • The cryosphere
  • Climate change

Ecosystems

  • In the waters
  • Cold feet
  • Red or dead?
  • Long haul travel
  • A fine balance

Climate change

  • Arctic climate challenge
  • Sensitive Arctic
  • Losing the ice
  • The front line of climate change
  • Greenland and global warming
  • What happens next?

Science and research

  • Science
  • Research
  • Paving the way

Living in the Arctic

  • Resources
  • Living on the edge

Tourism

  • Santa where?
  • Wish you were here
  • Last chance to see?
  • The ice hotel

Development

  • The concrete sea
  • Breaking the ice

Governance

  • Arctic geopolitics
  • Arctic circumpolar governance