Canada ponders exceptions to relief well rule for Arctic oil drilling
Companies drilling offshore for oil in the Canadian Arctic have long been required to show that they are capable of
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Author: Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Former Coast Guard chief to be U.S. Arctic representative
A former U.S. Coast Guard commandant, Admiral Robert Papp, will be the Obama administration’s special representative for the Arctic, while
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Rising mercury levels leave their mark on yellow-billed loons, study says
Yellow-billed loons that migrate to nesting sites on Alaska’s Arctic coastal plain are bearing an undesirable burden that comes from
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Arctic air clearer after Soviet Union’s collapse, long-term study says
The clouds of black carbon soiling snow and ice in Finland’s Arctic region have diminished significantly since the middle of
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Researchers turn to satellite monitoring to count polar bear populations
For polar bears, iconic Arctic animals that are coping with diminished sea ice and a rapidly-changing habitat, population numbers are
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The importance of Alaska’s Arctic lakes
The tens of thousands of lakes that dot the tundra of Alaska’s North Slope are so similar that almost all
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Arctic sea-ice melt moderate in early June but rapid at end of the month
Sea ice in the Arctic melted at a moderate pace in early June, but the rate accelerated late in the
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Alaska military sites vulnerable to climate change
Several U.S. military sites are vulnerable to rising temperatures and seas as well as other impacts of climate change, and
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Long-term warming inside Greenland’s ice sheet
In the mid-20th century, when Carl Benson was traveling Greenland gathering data he would use to write his Ph.D. thesis
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Arctic plants to be studied in Nunavut
A team of botanists is headed next week to a remote area in the Canadian territory of Nunavut to try
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Did Arctic fox evolve from Himalayas?
Today’s Arctic foxes are likely descendants of foxes that acclimated to cold and extreme conditions millions of years ago in
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Birds carry plant fragments from Arctic
Mosses and other plants that grow in northernmost North America are also found in southern South America, but not in
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Study: Port Clarence development not economically feasible without offshore oil drilling
Development of a deepwater port along the Bering Strait is economically feasible in the coming decade only if oil development
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Alaska’s future looks more rainy, less snowy: study
Alaskans of the future might have to stock up on ice cleats and endure disappointing snow seasons. A newly published
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Red foxes conquering Alaska’s North Slope: study
Red foxes, which began showing up in the Prudhoe Bay area in the late 1980s, are gradually conquering Alaska’s North
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