World | FOCUS Oct 21, 2020
As the Arctic's attractions mount, Greenland is a security black hole
by Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen
Shrinking sea ice in the remote region has fast-tracked a race among global powers for control over resources and waterways.
World / Science & Health Oct 12, 2020
The world's biggest expedition to the North Pole arrived back in Germany Monday, more than a year after it set off to collect information to understand the effects of climate change on the Arctic. "It is now back," said Antje Boetius, director of the Alfred ...
World / Science & Health Sep 22, 2020
'Devastating' loss pushes Arctic sea ice to second-lowest level on record
by Cassandra Garrison and Natalie Thomas
This year's decline was especially fast between Aug. 31 and Sept. 5, thanks to warm air coming off a heat wave in Siberia almost certainly caused by climate change.
World / Science & Health Sep 15, 2020
Sea of slush: Arctic sea ice lows mark a new polar climate regime
by Natalie Thomas and Cassandra Garrison
With climate change driving up Arctic temperatures, the once-solid sea ice cover has been shrinking to stark, new lows in recent years.
World Sep 3, 2020
Winter ice in the Bering Sea, in the northern Pacific Ocean between Alaska and Russia, is at its lowest level in the past 5,500 years, according to a study released Wednesday. Researchers analyzed vegetation that accumulated on the uninhabited island of Saint Matthew over the ...
World / Science & Health Aug 15, 2020
As climate change bites, Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return
Greenland's ice sheet may have shrunk past the point of return, with the ice likely to melt away no matter how quickly the world reduces climate-warming emissions, new research suggests. Scientists studied data on 234 glaciers across the Arctic territory spanning 34 years through 2018 ...
World / Science & Health Aug 7, 2020
Canada's last intact Arctic ice shelf collapses, losing 40% of area in two days
Data shows that last month was the world's third-hottest July on record, heat that has also been linked to wildfires that have been scorching patches of Siberian forest.
World / Science & Health Aug 6, 2020
Ice covering the Arctic Ocean reached the lowest level since at least 1979 for July as temperatures spiked in the region, leaving large stretches of Russia’s Siberian coast mostly ice-free. Sea ice extent in the Arctic last month was 27 percent below the average set ...
World / Science & Health Jul 26, 2020
Highest-ever temperature recorded in Norwegian Arctic archipelago
Norway's Arctic archipelago Svalbard on Saturday recorded its highest-ever temperature, the country's meteorological institute reported. According to scientific study, global warming in the Arctic is happening twice as fast as for the rest of the planet. For the second day in a row, the archipelago registered ...
World / Science & Health Jun 8, 2020
Giant diesel spill in Russia offers glimpse of Arctic’s future
With temperatures rising at twice the global average rate in the Arctic Circle, the frozen ground is thawing and causing cracks in roads and buildings.
Commentary / World May 12, 2020
A NATO flotilla sails back into the Cold War
by James Stavridis
After months of Moscow's provocations, the U.S. and U.K. sent surface ships to the Barents Sea for the first time in 35 years.
World / Social Issues Feb 25, 2020
Arctic 'doomsday vault' stocks up on more plant seeds as pace of climate change increases
An Arctic "doomsday vault" is set Tuesday to receive 60,000 samples of seeds from around the world as the biggest global crop reserve stocks up for a global catastrophe. The seeds are to be deposited in the vault inside a mountain near Longyearbyen on Spitsbergen ...