Svalbard, 220
Svalbard, 105, 122–31, 143–44, 246
Svalbard Treaty (1920), 127–28, 129
Sveinungsen, Ståle, 212–13, 220
Sweden, 120, 245
Tara, 62, 88
Tasiilaq, Greenland, 7, 33, 36, 138, 263
Tedesco, Marco, 230–31
Thompson, Robert, 183–84
Tireless, HMS, 74–75
Toole, John, 66
Total S.A., 191, 204
Trans-Arctic shipping route, 215–20
Transpolar Drift Stream, 65–66, 68–69, 88
Treadwell, Mead, 119, 218–19, 223–24
“Trophic cascade,” 168
Tunnganarniq, 31
Turbellarians, 152–53
T3 Ice Island, 64–65
Uemura, Naomi, 5
Umiak, 215
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). See Law of the Sea
United Nations International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea, 115
U.S. Arctic Research Commission (USARC), 119, 218
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), 140–42, 181, 186
U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center, 69, 89, 92, 228
U.S. Navy, 72–73, 75, 161, 220
Varandey Terminal, 189–90, 191, 214
Vardø, 212–13, 220, 224
Vaté, Virginie, 54
Vayrynen, Paavo, 188
Vega, 245
Vermeij, Geerat, 171–72
Victor, Paul Emile, 234
Victory, HMS, 260
Vidar Viking, 196–98
Volcanism, 98–99
Wadhams, Peter, 73–75, 81
Walker, Donald “Skip,” 230
Walruses, 126–27, 144–45, 150
Walter, Katey, 237–38, 244
Wang, Muyin, 96
Warm waters, 79–84, 88–89
Warneke, Carsten, 253
Watts, Murray, 38
Weddell Sea, 167
West Hudson Bay, 140–41
West Siberian Plain, 186–87
Whale hunting, 20–21, 181–84
Whales, 146–48. See also specific types of whales
White Rose field, 203
Williamsburgh, 211
Wind patterns, 88–89
ice flow and, 68–70, 78–79, 84
Wolf, Shaye, 143
World Wildlife Fund (WWF), 105, 222
Yamal Nenets, 42–56
future of reindeer herding, 53–56
industrial development and reindeer herding, 50–53, 55–56
life of nomad reindeer herder, 45–48
Soviet Union and, 48–50, 53–54
Yaranga, 54
Yar Sale, 46
Yarsalinsky, 45–46, 49
Yedoma, 243, 244
Yenisey River, 12, 15
Yupik. See Inuit
Yuribei River, 42, 46
Zender, Charles, 248–50
Zimov, Nikita, 244
Zimov, Sergey, 242–44
Zooplankton, 151
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ALUN ANDERSON began his career as a research biologist and has been the editor, editor-in-chief, and publishing director of New Scientist from 1992 to 2005, during which time he successfully launched the magazine in the United States. Previously he was the Washington DC bureau chief for the science journal Nature. Anderson lives in London but spends considerable time in the United States, where he is on the board of Xconomy in Boston.
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