What the new IPCC climate report means for the Arctic
If a half-degree temperature rise in world temperatures doesn’t sound alarming, the latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change should put that...
A deepwater port in Alaska’s Arctic is essential for U.S. national...
While cooperation has been a hallmark of Arctic relations between the United States and Russia, it is important to consider national security due to...
Could resurrecting mammoths help stop Arctic emissions?
If you managed to time travel back to Ice-Age Europe, you might be forgiven for thinking you had instead crash landed in some desolate...
Why Greenlanders are taking Trump’s interest very seriously
Annex Greenland?We can ask the question, when Russia can annex Crimea, why would the United States hesitate with Greenland? I think that a U.S....
In a rush to launch Arctic Refuge drilling, Trump officials are...
In testimony last fall, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski promised that there would be no cutting corners on oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife...
The First Frontier: Creating a climate displacement fund for displaced Alaska...
Alaska needs a climate displacement fund, or it risks the lives of its indigenous communities.The world’s first climate change refugees may not only be...
Why people matter when we talk about Arctic climate change
It is very difficult to have a conversation with an ice floe.You may select a floe with an intriguing personal history; perhaps a past...
How fake news and starving bears could keep more complex stories...
In Tromsø, the main Arctic city in Norway, mayor Kristin Røymo welcomed us with a warning. She talked of what she called “Google images...
In 1945, the North Pole was a powerful global symbol. It’s...
NEW YORK — The Uber driver slid onto Columbus Avenue, where not a single moving car blocked our path on a street that normally...
The furor over a tourism-related polar bear death misses some key...
A recent and very unfortunate incident in Svalbard where a polar bear was killed in self-defense after attacking a man from a cruise vessel...
