A record number of participants. An Arctic storm grounding planes. A program reshuffled at the last minute. From 22 to 24 October, participants flocked to the 2025 Polar Law Symposium in Nuuk, Greenland, not just …
Articles by: "Doaa Abdel-Motaal"
An executive order by the United States in April authorising expanded engagement in seabed mining reflects shifting approaches to the governance of critical mineral resources in areas beyond national jurisdiction. As legal frameworks evolve beneath …
If China sets up the first permanent Moon base, it could easily upend the US-sponsored Artemis Accords on lunar colonisation and take control of part of the Moon. Its behaviour in Antarctica already shows how. …
Can the recently concluded Artemis Accords that pave the way for exploring, extracting and using resources of the Moon, Mars and other stellar bodies become a blueprint for the mining of Antarctica? No, they can’t, …