Donate

Arctic

A small crowd of people are shown examining green ballots next to rows of boxes.

Main opposition party against mining wins Greenland election

Politics

Greenland’s main opposition party wins parliamentary election after securing more than a third of the votes. The Community of the People party is against an international mining project involving uranium and other metals.

Arctic Inspiration

Arts, Culture & Media

Arctic in Residence

Arts, Culture & Media

Make This Scary Short Screenplay

Arts, Culture & Media
A man walks in the snow next to the Houses of Parliament in London on March 1. Brtain and much of the rest of Europe have been hit with a late winter blast linked to extreme warming in the Arctic.

Europe’s cold blast, Arctic’s heat wave are ‘two sides of the same coin’

Environment
A view of tundra landscape in the Rocky Mountains — 11,000 feet from sea level.

In the dead of winter, plants are already starting to prepare for spring — underground

Science

In the Arctic, there is five times more root biomass under the ground than above it, scientists say

A research team crossing an ice plateau in the Indian Himalayas faced risks of hidden crevasses, storms, avalanches and earthquakes.

Climate change research can be risky. But not doing it is even riskier.

Science

Climate change research in extreme environments is a dangerous business, but scientists say getting boots on the ground is vital to understanding where we’re headed as we warm the planet.

A polar bear keeps close to her young along the Beaufort Sea coast in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, March 6, 2007.

For polar bears, melting ice in the Arctic means less room to roam for food

Environment

“So there are more bears coming onshore than have in the past, and staying there longer. And when they’re on shore, they typically are losing weight, because they are eating minimally or not eating at all.”

Arctic

President Trump, why are scientists finding their research suddenly being censored by the government?

Global Politics

Convincing the public about the threat of climate change is hard enough as it is, but what happens when climate scientists don’t even have the numbers to prove it?

The Polar jet stream carries weather systems around the northern hemisphere. It's powered by the temperature differential between the Arctic and areas farther south, but new research finds that it's being disrupted as rapid warming in the Arctic reduces t

Here’s a new climate change reality that Trump’s new policies ignore

Global Politics

As President Trump turns US government policy away from the realities of climate change, a new scientific study confirms a link between climate pollution and dangerously extreme weather. The irony of the timing is not lost on the study’s lead author.