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Sea ice breaks apart as the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica traverses the Northwest Passage through the Victoria Strait in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in a Friday, July 21, 2017, file photo.

Sea ice plays a crucial role in cooling the planet. It’s melting at record-breaking rates.

Climate Change

According to research at the Norwegian Polar Institute, last decade’s average Arctic sea-ice levels hit their lowest in 1,000 years. And last month, sea ice reached its lowest point ever recorded in July.

Chanthon Bun, who was incarcerated for 23 years, part of that time in San Quentin State Prison in California, shows artwork from an origami course offered in the prison.

He’s out of prison and has COVID-19. But he’s still sheltering from ICE.

Immigration
Several people are shown through a stone window with metal bars on it walking.

ICE says international students must take classes in person; TikTok planning to pull out of Hong Kong; More students return to school in South Africa

Top of The World
Nathaniel B Palmer in port

Antarctica Dispatch 1: Gearing up and shipping out

Into the Thaw: Decoding Thwaites Glacier
Snow is blown off of the calving front off of Thurston Island in western Antarctica in this photo, taken in November 2014. New findings show the western side of Antarctica to be more vulnerable to warming oceans — and increased ice loss — than first thoug

A scientist’s response to Antarctic ice loss: ‘We can act.’

Frozen ice Bering Sea

Bering Sea loses half its sea ice over two weeks

Environment

Temperatures in Alaska on Tuesday were as high as 45 degrees above average.

Sheriff Thomas Hodgson, who runs the Bristol County Jail

How a few notations by a school resource officer caused a teen to wind up in a high-security detention facility

Conflict

Henry Lemus Calderón, 19, is incarcerated in a high-security unit, and he can’t figure out why. Though in the country illegally, he was never arrested for any crime and never ordered removed, and he bristles at the notion of being considered in need of high security.

bensalem police

Police in Trump-supporting towns aid immigration officials in crackdown

Conflict

Dozens of local police departments are joining forces with ICE to more aggressively enforce President Donald Trump’s crackdown on people living in the country illegally.

DHS bus

The complicated reasons why some people overstay their US visas

Conflict

For some people, overstaying their visa was never the plan. Rather, it is the result of one, or several, extenuating circumstances that convince immigrants they cannot or do not want to return to their countries.

Line of protesters on lawn behind fence, with police officer near tree at edge of photo

California governor signs sanctuary bill into law. Supporters say it’s ‘probably not enough.’

Justice

Supporters of the bill negotiated with law enforcement groups for the state’s sanctuary law. That limited, but also maintained, how much local agencies can connect with ICE.