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Arctic Inspiration

Arts, Culture & Media

Would you seek creative inspiration while seasick in one of the coldest places imaginable? This fall a group of 14 artists sets sail for a two week journey to the Arctic Circle. They’ll start from an archipelago halfway between Norway and the North Pole. Reporter Matt Holzman will be on board with the artists, but […]

Arctic in Residence

Arts, Culture & Media

Make This Scary Short Screenplay

Arts, Culture & Media
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
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
NASA Earth Axis v2

Melting ice is causing the Earth’s axis to shift direction

Science

Global warming has profound effects on our planet, including melting Earth’s immense ice sheets. A new study from NASA reveals an unexpected result of all that ice melting: It’s moving the axis of rotation of the entire planet.

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

Looking small for big answers in Greenland

Environment

Scientists working in Greenland are looking for tiny clues to help fill in the big picture about the fate of the island’s giant ice pack. They’re using cutting edge technology to track minute changes that could help predict what a warmer future might hold for Greenland and the rest of the world.

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.

Is America’s newest frontier in the Arctic?

Environment

President Barack Obama becomes the first sitting president to head north of the Arctic Circle. His focus is climate change, but it could also be about claiming new land for the US.

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

Scientists are trying to get to the bottom of those mysterious new holes in Siberia

Environment

The discovery of two giant holes in the ground in far northern Russia is raising all kinds of speculation about their origin. No one yet knows for sure how they were formed, but a leading scientist is pointing to an ever-more usual suspect—climate change.

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

Scientists are trying to get to the bottom of those mysterious new holes in Siberia

Environment

The discovery of two giant holes in the ground in far northern Russia is raising all kinds of speculation about their origin. No one yet knows for sure how they were formed, but a leading scientist is pointing to an ever-more usual suspect—climate change.