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RUSSIA SAYS ITS SEA-BASED NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IS SAFE. CRITICS CALL IT A 'FLOATING CHERNOBYL.'
Akademik Lomonosov Russia says sea-based nuclear power plant is safe. Critics call it a 'Floating Chernobyl.'... READ MORE›
ARCTIC ICE CHOKED WITH RECORD AMOUNT OF MICROPLASTIC
Arctic ice choked with record amount of plastic from cigarette butts to packing material... READ MORE›
'NOWHERE IS IMMUNE' AS MICROPLASTICS TURN UP IN ARCTIC SEA ICE, POSING UNKNOWN FOOD CHAIN RISKS
Researchers warned Tuesday of a troubling accumulation of microplastics in sea ice floating in the Arctic ocean, a major potential source of water pollut... READ MORE›
RECORD LEVELS OF PLASTIC DISCOVERED IN ARCTIC SEA ICE
Scientists have found a record amount of plastic trapped in Arctic sea ice, raising concern about the impact on marine life and human health... READ MORE›
BOWHEAD WHALES NOT ONLY SINGERS BUT ALSO AVID COMPOSERS
The diversity and interannual variability in songs of bowhead whales in this study are rivaled only by a few species of songbirds, the study found... READ MORE›
ARCTIC JAZZ: BOWHEAD WHALES ARE THE COOLEST CATS
The diversity and inter-annual variability in songs of bowhead whales in this study are rivalled only by a few species of songbirds, the study found... READ MORE›
ARCTIC WARMING: SCIENTISTS ALARMED BY 'CRAZY' TEMPERATURE RISES
Record warmth in the Arctic this month could yet prove to be a freak occurrence, but experts warn the warming event is unprecedented... READ MORE›
'WACKY' WEATHER MAKES ARCTIC WARMER THAN PARTS OF EUROPE
As long ago as 1973, a study suggested that an ice-free Arctic Ocean could make regions farther south colder... READ MORE›
ARCTIC TEMPERATURES SOAR 45 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL, FLOODED BY EXTREMELY MILD AIR ON ALL SIDES
Arctic shows no sign of returning to reliably frozen region of recent past decades, NOAA concluded in its Arctic Report Card, published in December... READ MORE›
MELTING ICE SHEETS ARE HASTENING SEA LEVEL RISE, SATELLITE DATA CONFIRMS
Research shows that pace of melting in Antarctica and Greenland has accelerated... READ MORE›
ARCTIC SEA ROUTES COULD EASE MALACCA STRAIT SECURITY ISSUE
The Northern Sea Route runs along the Russian Arctic coast from the Kara Sea, along Siberia, to the Bering Sea... READ MORE›
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BOATY MCBOATFACE TO GO ON ITS FIRST ANTARCTIC MISSION
Its mission will be to investigate water flow and turbulence in the dark depths of the Orkney Passage, a 3.5km deep region of the Southern Ocean... READ MORE›
'EXTRAORDINARILY HOT' ARCTIC TEMPERATURES ALARM SCIENTISTS
It's been about 20C warmer than normal over most of the Arctic Ocean, along with cold anomalies of about the same magnitude over north-central Asia... READ MORE›
RESURRECTION OF KEYSTONE AND DAPL CEMENTS AMERICA'S CLIMATE ANTAGONISM
Those Trump Tower chats with Al Gore about climate change - and Ivanka Trump's apparent concern over the issue - now vanish over the horizon... READ MORE›
UK CONSIDERS TAX ON SINGLE-USE PLASTICS TO TACKLE OCEAN POLLUTION
An estimated 12m tonnes of plastic enters the oceans each year, and residues are routinely found in fish, sea birds and marine mammals... READ MORE›
ICEBERG TOURISTS FLOCK TO NEWFOUNDLAND TOWN
It's already been a busy season in iceberg alley, with hundreds of icebergs reported in the Atlantic... READ MORE›
U.S., CANADA BAN OFFSHORE DRILLING IN ARCTIC WATERS
The move helps put some finishing touches on Obama's environmental legacy while also testing president-elect Donald Trump's promise to unleash the nation's untapped energy reserves... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN TANKER SAILS THROUGH ARCTIC WITHOUT ICEBREAKER FOR FIRST TIME
The northern sea route between Siberia and the Pacific is still closed to conventional shipping for much of the year... READ MORE›
OBAMA PUTS ARCTIC OCEAN OFF LIMITS FOR DRILLING IN LAST-DITCH BARRIER TO TRUMP
US Department of the Interior says 'fragile and unique' Arctic ecosystem at risk if drilling allowed, possibly by pro-fossil fuels Trump administration... READ MORE›
THE ARCTIC, ANTARCTIC POLES JUST SET A NEW RECORD FOR LOW LEVELS OF SEA ICE
The amount of sea ice in both the Arctic and Antarctic is at a record low and climate change is partly to blame, scientists announced Wednesday... READ MORE›
THIS IS THE POLAR BEAR CAPITAL OF THE WORLD, BUT THE SNOW HAS GONE
With Geoff York, director of conservation at Polar Bears International, we pored over satellite maps every day... READ MORE›
CANADA'S MOST SHAMEFUL ENVIRONMENTAL SECRET MUST NOT REMAIN HIDDEN
Unfortunately, the now full-blown environmental crisis of tar sands tailings ponds has only gotten worse in the last decade... READ MORE›
ARCTIC PERMAFROST THAWING FASTER THAN EVER, US CLIMATE STUDY FINDS
Arctic sea ice usually shrinks in September and this year it was only the eighth lowest on record for the melting season... READ MORE›
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION RUSHES TO PROTECT PUBLIC LANDS BEFORE TRUMP TAKES OFFICE
Obama has protected more land and water - more than 265m acres - via executive action than any other president... READ MORE›
ANTARCTIC SEA ICE SHRINKS TO SMALLEST EVER EXTENT
People sceptical of mainstream findings by climate scientists have often pointed to Antarctic sea ice as evidence against global warming... READ MORE›
NORTHERN HEMISPHERE SEES IN EARLY SPRING DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING
And in the US, spring arrived 22 days early this year in Washington DC... READ MORE›
U.S. SAYS EXXON UNDER TILLERSON VIOLATED RUSSIA SANCTIONS IN 2014
As the United States and others tightened Russian sanctions, ExxonMobil's ability to operate there dwindled... READ MORE›
A MASSIVE CLIMATE CHANGE STUDY IS CANCELED ... BECAUSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Scientists say the Arctic is one of the regions hit hardest by climate change... READ MORE›
HOW DISAPPEARING SEA ICE HAS PUT ARCTIC ECOSYSTEM UNDER THREAT
The base of the Arctic food chain is being depleted, in other words... READ MORE›
EXTREME ARCTIC SEA ICE MELT FORCES THOUSANDS OF WALRUSES ASHORE IN ALASKA
Agency scientists said about 60 young walruses were killed because of crowding and stampedes... READ MORE›
GRAB YOUR EAR MUFFS THE NEW YEARS ARRIVING WITH A FRIGID BANG
A deep freeze is about to descend on North America, Europe and Asia thanks to record high temperatures across the Arctic... READ MORE›
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION BLOCKS NEW OIL DRILLING IN THE ARCTIC
The company last month walked away from its Arctic drilling citing the disappointing results and regulatory uncertainty... READ MORE›
ALASKA INDIGENOUS PEOPLE SEE CULTURE SLIPPING AWAY AS SEA ICE VANISHES
Arctic sea ice extent slumped to a record low in November, winnowed away by the warming air, warming seas and unhelpful wind patterns... READ MORE›
COAST GUARD: US PRESENCE IN ARCTIC WON'T STOP CHINESE, RUSSIAN ENCROACHMENT WITHOUT LAW OF THE SEA RATIFICATION
The convention, which the US has avoided signing for years, would allow Washington to extend America's Exclusive Economic Zone to its Arctic continental shelf... READ MORE›
ARCTIC SEA ICE COULD DISAPPEAR EVEN IF WORLD ACHIEVES CLIMATE TARGET
A 2C rise would still mean a 39 percent risk that ice would disappear in the Arctic Ocean in summers, they said... READ MORE›
ARCTIC SEA ICE SHRINKS TO SECOND LOWEST LEVEL EVER RECORDED
It was an unusual year for sea ice in the Arctic, Serreze said... READ MORE›
SEA ICE EXTENT IN ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC REACHED RECORD LOWS IN NOVEMBER
Arctic sea ice usually grows over winter until it hits its maximum annual extent in March... READ MORE›
NARWHALS ARE HELPING NASA UNDERSTAND MELTING ICE AND RISING SEAS
The narwhals like it, said Josh Willis, the project lead for NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN TANKER COMPLETES ARCTIC PASSAGE WITHOUT AID OF ICEBREAKERS
This is a big event in the opening up of the Arctic, Mr. Putin said of the tanker's maiden voyage this year... READ MORE›
THE LURE OF A BETTER LIFE AMID COLD AND DARKNESS
Russians are famed for swimming in any weather, even in Norilsk, 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle... READ MORE›
TRUMP SIGNS ORDER TO EXPAND DRILLING IN ARCTIC, ATLANTIC OCEANS
The plan blocked new oil and gas drilling in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans... READ MORE›