Cryosphere Series 2026

What Rights Cannot Hold: Sea Ice and the Exhaustion of Legal Imagination

Legal rights struggle to address the materiality of Arctic sea ice, prompting planetary solidarity as a new framework

A Skier Goes for a Glacier Walk

An exploration of grieving and celebrating glacial travel in a changing climate, through 40+ years of one skier’s

A Map of the Arctic Ocean

A speculative map layering Arctic ice retreat, territorial claims, shipping, extraction, and wildlife migration to

The Arctic Institute’s 2026 Connecting the Cryosphere Series: An Introduction

The Arctic Institute's 2026 Connecting the Cryosphere Series explores the layered nature of the cryosphere through