Arctic

Large icebergs float away as the sun rises near Kulusuk, Greenland, Aug. 16, 2019.
Critical State
Arctic alternatives: Part II
A CH-47F Chinook helicopter sits nestled in the Alaska Range to offload National Park Service equipment, supplies and personnel on Kahiltna Glacier April 27, 2022. 
Critical State
Arctic alternatives: Part I
This mother polar bear and her two cubs are headed down to the sea ice in the Svalbard archipelago. She’ll have to teach them to hunt seals, their primary prey, in a changing landscape.
Climate Change
Svalbard’s polar bears persist as sea ice melts — but not forever
An elder wearing sunglasses and a white coat points off into the Arctic distance while standing by another man wearing sunglasses.
The Big Fix
New app helps Inuit adapt to changing climate: ‘It’s time for the harpoon and computer to work together’
Smoke rises from wildfires near Berezovka River in Russia
A heat wave in Siberia signals dangerous Arctic warming
Abandoned snow-covered buildings
Development
‘I am a hostage of the north’: Trapped in a post-Gulag Arctic city
A brown fox sits in the grass
Environment
One arctic fox’s incredible journey from Norway to Canada
A large oil tanker docks amid ice and snow in the Arctic. On the side, the ship's name is written in Russian characters.
The Big Melt
An environmental newspaper fights for press freedom in the Russian Arctic
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The Big Melt
As the Arctic warms up, a ‘new ocean’ is bringing new commerce to the top of the world
A sun sets behind a cloud over a grey body of water
The Big Melt
Arctic permafrost is starting to thaw. Here’s why we should all care.
A person walks through a puddle in Shismaref, Alaska.
The Big Melt
An Alaskan village is falling into the sea. Washington is looking the other way.
Arctic Fox
Take our Arctic quiz
A large concrete sphere sits on a brown hill overlooking a slate blue sea.
The Big Melt
In Iceland, a shifting sculpture for a changing Arctic  
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Climate Change
Russia to test shipping route through thawing Arctic waters
Bits of icebergs can be seen that have broken off the Sawyer Glacier in Alaska, where the effects of climate change are being felt at a higher rate than the Lower 48.
Environment
Alaskan youth sue state government for lack of action against climate change
Arts, Culture & Media
Arctic Inspiration
Arts, Culture & Media
Arctic in Residence
Arts, Culture & Media
Make This Scary Short Screenplay
Arctic ice with ship
Environment
Thinning ice and new tankers are opening up sea routes through the Arctic
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.
Environment
Europe’s cold blast, Arctic’s heat wave are ‘two sides of the same coin’
A research team crossing an ice plateau in the Indian Himalayas faced risks of hidden crevasses, storms, avalanches and earthquakes.
Science
Climate change research can be risky. But not doing it is even riskier.
A polar bear keeps close to her young along the Beaufort Sea coast in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, March 6, 2007.
Environment
For polar bears, melting ice in the Arctic means less room to roam for food
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
Global Politics
Here’s a new climate change reality that Trump’s new policies ignore
Greenland's Sermilik fjord is choked with huge icebergs from one of the island's biggest glaciers. But climate researchers working in the fjord and on the Helheim glacier are looking for tiny clues in hopes of getting a better handle on how cliamte change
Environment
Looking small for big answers in Greenland
British singer Charlotte Church holds her hands to her face during an environmental protest near the offices of Shell in central London, Britain August 26, 2015.
Environment
Is America’s newest frontier in the Arctic?
Police detain environmental activist Evgenia Chirikova during an opposition rally in Moscow in 2012. Chirikova's efforts to save a protected forest ultimately made her a leading critic of the Russian government. Now after years of pressure from the govern
Environment
She opposed Putin. They tried to take away her kids.
Eight nations share the territory of the Arctic, which is experiencing the fastest changes of any part of the earth as global temperatures rise. The United States will emphasize addressing the causes and impacts of climate change in the region when it tak
Environment
As new leader of the Arctic Council, the US will focus on the region’s Big Thaw
The polar jet stream carries weather around the Northern Hemisphere. Climate researcher Jenifer Francis believes the rapidly warming Arctic is slowing and warping the jet stream, allowing Arctic air to spill farther south in some places.
Science
How the warming Arctic might be behind Boston’s deep freeze
Britain's National Gallerly sells its soul to the villainous "Man from Shell" is this recent guerilla theater presentation by the activist group Art Not Oil. Fossil fuel industry support of cultural institutions has become increasingly controversial in th
Environment
For these activists, oil and art just don’t mix
Ice scientists Ken Golden and Chris Polashenski drill a plastic tube into the Arctic ice cap north of Alaska as part of their research into melt ponds that form on the ice every spring. The ponds play a key role in the accellerated warming of the Arctic,
Environment
A scientist unlocks one of the mysteries of Arctic ice melt
This gaping hole in the Siberian tundra was the first of two recently discovered on Russia's far northern Yamal Peninsula. Scientists say they almost certainly appeared on the landscape only recently, and may be a result of a buildup of gas underground, l
Environment
Scientists are trying to get to the bottom of those mysterious new holes in Siberia
This gaping hole in the Siberian tundra was the first of two recently discovered on Russia's far northern Yamal Peninsula. Scientists say they almost certainly appeared on the landscape only recently, and may be a result of a buildup of gas underground, l
Environment
Scientists are trying to get to the bottom of those mysterious new holes in Siberia
Arctic ice with ship
Environment
Today’s Arctic explorers follow in the footsteps of history
Drilling unit aground
Environment
A new report finds nations are woefully unprepared for Arctic oil spills
Sports
Snowshoeing and snow snaking are favorites at the Arctic Winter Games
Environment
What’s a deep freeze for the US is just another day in northern Canada
The European Space Agency’s Earth Explorer CryoSat makes precise measurements of changes in the thickness of marine ice floating in the polar oceans, as well as variations in the thickness of the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica.
Environment
On a long downward slide, scientists say 2013 was an up year for Arctic Ice
Conflict & Justice
Russia plans a Christmas present for Pussy Riot and the Arctic 30 — but is it just packaging?
Environment
Researchers suggest supplemental feeding as a potential solution to save polar bears
Environment
Iceland’s president weighs in on impact of rapidly disappearing Arctic ice
Environment
Scientists reveal startling decrease in Arctic Ocean ice cover
Environment
In Norway, an isolated island at the center of global research on climate change
Environment
More oil becoming available as Arctic ice recedes
Swimming Polar Bear
Arts, Culture & Media
Scientists Debate the Prospects for Bringing Woolly Mammoth Back to Life
Caribou, Oil and a Changing Arctic
Arctic Summit
Greenland Sharks: The Apex Predator
Arts, Culture & Media
Amundsen’s North Pole Ship ‘Maud’ to Return Home
Arctic Explorers
China in the Arctic?
Up North In Search of the Polar Bear
Environment
Exxon makes oil deal with Russia
Global Politics
Canada’s Largest Islands
Arctic Melting Speeds Up Rising Sea Levels
Environment
Big changes in the world’s cold regions
Adventures Above the Arctic Circle
Arctic Thaw
The Living on Earth Almanac
Alaskan Reserve Opening for Oil Exploration