Why Greenland is only the start of the battle for the Arctic

Global Roaming with Geraldine Doogue and Hamish Macdonald · Feb 11, 2026 · 29m

Ice is melting. Seas are rising. Even anthrax is emerging out of the permafrost. But the climate crisis is changing more than the environment. The Arctic is fast becoming a pressure point for NATO, Russia and China as they wrestle for control of the thawing north. But what do they want it for?

Geraldine Doogue and Latika Bourke (The Nightly) are joined by Klaus Dodds to talk about the transformation of the Arctic from a "zone of peace", as former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev called it, to the major powers' hottest property.

Guest: Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics at Middlesex…