Because of the melting Arctic ice, it looks like polar bears are turning to an unusual source of food: other polar bears.

Jean-Jacques Mosconi, head of strategy in the French Shtokman partner Total SA, said the first gas from Shtokman would begin flowing into export pipelines in 2015, with liquefied natural gas production starting up a year later.

In preparation of ice free Arctic summers, the US Navy has issues a 33-page Arctic roadmap developed by its Task Force Climate Change. The document covers all naval operations.

The former commanding officer of HMCS Toronto said Monday that Arctic sovereignty is a matter of use it or lose it — and Canada has been busy using it.

Ore from several new mining projects in the Finnish and Swedish north might be exported through northern Norwegian ports. That will lead to the construction of new joint Nordic infrastructure.

A group of Alaska North Slope women who are strongly opposed to plans to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other offshore sites in Alaska are in Washington this week. The group is there to lobby both Obama’s administration and members of congress, detailing their concerns about oil and gas development in the Arctic.

Those scientists who are researching and monitoring the impact that global warming is having in the extreme north are growing more and more frustrated with people’s disbelief and apathy about how far reaching and extensive the problem is, and also how difficult monitoring the situation can be.

Both the Finnish and the Swedish governments grant permits to Nord Stream gas pipe to utilize their exclusive economic zones.

In August, American Secretary of Commerce, Gary Locke, approved a plan that will see a large part of the Arctic remain off-limits to commercial fishing. Federal officials have announced that that plan will go into effect the 3rd of December.

It looks like some Arctic polar bears that call both Canada and Greenland home will be receiving some protection from both countries. Official in both Canada and Greenland have announced that the two countries have reached an agreement on several measures that are aimed at the protection of populations of polar bears that are shared by the two countries. The bears tend to travel between Nunavut and Greenland.