Issues affecting circumpolar nations
February 27th is International Polar Bear Day. In the rapidly warming Arctic climate, sea ice is declining at record rates, destroying
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change
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The year 2020 shaped up to be one of the three warmest years on record, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
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This year is shaping up to be among warmest years on record with extreme temperatures observed around the world, including
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Imagine you head for the North Pole to test your brand-new giant, state-of-the-art icebreaker – and you can’t find any
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Human Rights Watch criticizes ‘inadequate’ government response to issue, calls for stronger climate targets The federal government is not doing
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The Arktika icebreaker will have to undergo a second test-voyage to prove its capabilities to crush thick and hard sea-ice.
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A year-long international Arctic science expedition came to an end on Monday as the German research icebreaker Polarstern returned to
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In 2020, Arctic sea ice reached the second lowest level ever recorded It used to be the size of all
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As climate change threatens the survival of several polar bear populations in the lower Arctic latitudes, thinning sea ice in
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This season’s sea-ice extent is soon reaching minimum, with a specially sharp decline north of Svalbard and Russia’s Arctic archipelagos.
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Lawrence Ruben has lived in the Arctic all his life, and is still learning about the changing region. In the
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A big chunk of Greenland’s ice cap, estimated to be some 110 square kilometres, has broken off in the far
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Temperature records are coming one after another across the Arctic. On the 15th August, Russian meteorologists measured 18,1° Celsius at Cape Sterligov
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The Arctic could be completely ice-free in summers by 2035, according to a new study that compared present-day conditions with
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