AIDEA approves more spending as it seeks to open Arctic refuge...
Alaska’s state-owned development bank is continuing its efforts to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling.
Directors...
Canadian miner working on proposal to keep Nunavut iron mine open
Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. is developing a proposal to keep its Mary River iron ore mine running.
The plan, which the company calls a “Sustaining...
Canada’s Hudson Bay polar bear population plummets as climate change warms...
TORONTO — Canada's Western Hudson Bay polar bear population has fallen 27 percent in just five years, according to a government report released last...
Are Indigenous protected areas the key to COP15’s ’30 by 30′...
MONTREAL — At the northernmost point of Canada's mainland, in the territory of Nunavut, the Inuit community of Taloyoak has hunted caribou, Arctic char...
Canadian Coast Guard finishes Arctic operating season
The Canadian Coast Guard and its seven icebreakers have finished their Arctic operating season and left the North, the federal organization announced in a...
With leases suspended, Alaska agency wants $6 million more for Arctic...
Alaska’s economic development agency has released plans to spend $6 million next year to advance its campaign to search for oil in the Arctic...
Pandoravirus: The melting Arctic is releasing ancient germs – how worried...
Scientists have recently revived several large viruses that had been buried in the frozen Siberian ground (permafrost) for tens of thousands of years.
The youngest...
The Arctic is getting hotter and rainier, the latest report card...
Seasons in the Arctic are shifting, and the region is getting hotter and rainier, according to an annual report card by the National Oceanic...
Could a warming Arctic unleash the next pandemic?
As the land and waters of the Arctic warm — potentially releasing pathogens — and as more species migrate toward the poles in a...
Oldest DNA on record — 2 million years — reveals Greenland’s...
WASHINGTON — Scientists have identified DNA from animals, plants and microbes dating to about 2 million years ago — the oldest on record by...
