Arctic

New Research Makes it Harder to Kick The Climate Can Down the Road from COP28

Without immediate emissions cuts, global temperatures will breach the Paris Agreement’s goals sooner than expected, scientists say. ‘Despite decades of warnings, we are still heading in the wrong direction’

By Bob Berwyn

Is ConocoPhillips Looking to Expand its Controversial Arctic Oil Project?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

The Plucky Puffin, Endangered Yet Coping: Scientists Link Emergence of a Hybrid Subspecies to Climate Change

By Lydia Larsen

New Research Shows Direct Link Between Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Polar Bear Decline

By Bob Berwyn

Extreme Rain From Atmospheric Rivers and Ice-Heating Micro-Cracks Are Ominous New Threats to the Greenland Ice Sheet

By Bob Berwyn

On the Coast of Greenland, Early Arctic Spring Has Been Replaced by Seasonal Extremes, New Research Shows

By Lydia Larsen

Facing a Plunge in Salmon Numbers in the Kuskokwim and Yukon Rivers, Alaskans Seek a Voice in Fishing Policy

By Emma Ricketts

The Melting Glaciers of Svalbard Offer an Ominous Glimpse of More Warming to Come

By Lydia Larsen

June Extremes Suggest Parts of the Climate System Are Reaching Tipping Points

By Bob Berwyn

Can Iceberg Surges in the Arctic Trigger Rapid Warming at the Other End of The World?

By Bob Berwyn

Global Warming Could Drive Pulses of Ice Sheet Retreat Reaching 2,000 Feet Per Day

By Bob Berwyn

Pacific Walruses Fight to Survive in the Rapidly Warming Arctic

By Kiley Bense

Biden Approves ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project to Drill Oil in the Alaskan Arctic

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Activists Make Final Appeal to Biden to Block Arctic Oil Project

By Nicholas Kusnetz, Aman Azhar

This Arctic US Air Base Has Its Eyes on Russia. But Climate is a Bigger Threat

By Natasha Maki Jessen-Petersen

Scientists Examine Dangerous Global Warming ‘Accelerators’

By Bob Berwyn

Biden Administration Allows Controversial Arctic Oil Project to Proceed

By Nicholas Kusnetz

New Study Reveals Arctic Ice, Tracked Both Above and Below, Is Freezing Later

By Charlie Miller

One of the World’s Coldest Places Is Now the Warmest it’s Been in 1,000 Years, Scientists Say

By Bob Berwyn