Brett Simpson is based 200 miles above the Arctic Circle in Tromsø, Norway—the world’s northern-most city—from where she’s investigating intersecting environmental, societal and political challenges across the Arctic, one of the earth’s fastest-changing environments. She’s reporting on a region that’s the center of mounting geopolitical competition and confrontation over oil, gas and other resources—overshadowed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has disrupted the Arctic Council, the sole international forum of Arctic states and organizations. The region’s developments will have major and mounting global significance.
An alumna of Princeton and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Brett recently finished a Fulbright fellowship in Germany. She’s written for National Geographic, The Atlantic, The New York Times and other publications.
Dispatches from Brett Simpson
Hybrid warfare on the high seas
Russia’s shadow fleet, undersea sabotage and security gray zones.
Into the darkness
Lessons from Norway’s winter mørketid.
Colonialism, capitalism, cooperation: Norway’s complicated legacy of polar research
The Fram Center cements the country’s status as an Arctic powerhouse. But it also inherits old myths.