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Nature: The Living Edens: Arctic Oasis
Follow one 12-year-old Inuit boy's journey into adulthood as he and his father go on an extended hunting trip in the Arctic.
NOW: The Heat Over Global Warming
David Brancaccio talks with Laurie David, a producer of the Oscar-nominated documentary An Inconvenient Truth and a major environmental activist. (January 26, 2007)
National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth: One Degree Factor
At the website of this program that covered how global warming is jeopardizing the future of particular species, experts discuss just how dependent the Gwitchin are on caribou, a species whose numbers are rapidly declining. (April 20, 2005)
Nova: Arctic Passage
For explorers of the 19th century, a route through the Arctic's Northwest Passage was the Holy Grail. Learn about a legendary expedition through frozen waters in "Arctic Passage." (February 28, 2006)
Online NewsHour: The Debate over ANWR drilling
As the Senate considers a bill [later passed] that included drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, two experts debate whether the refuge is a barren wasteland or fragile wilderness in need of protection. (November 2, 2005)
Online NewsHour: The Arctic's Melting Glaciers
The place that the Inuit call "The Land that Never Melts" is, in fact, melting. Watch this video examination of how global warming is affecting those who live in the Arctic. (May 1, 2005)
Scientific American Frontiers: Hot Planet — Cold Comfort
Glaciers are melting in Arctic regions east and west, and global warming is already affecting Alaska. Learn more about how global warming might affect you. (April 16, 2005)
Scientific American Frontiers: Hot Times in Alaska
The Arctic is the planet's thermostat, and a sensitive one at that. Scientists explain why warmer temperatures in Alaska are cause for alarm. (June 15, 2004)
NPR Stories
Weekend Edition Saturday: Arctic Team Studies Global Warming, Inuit Culture
A team of seven explorers - including three Inuit hunters - embarks on a 1,200-mile journey across Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic.Traveling by dogsled, the expedition spends time in local villages discussing the effects of global warming on Inuit cultures. A project of the Will Steger Foundation, the team will communicate with and educate online participants around the world. (February 24, 2007)
Day to Day: Alaska Joins Legal Battle Against Emissions Rules
Alaska is known as the early warning system of climate change, but the state has joined the legal fight against government regulation of carbon dioxide emissions. Many Alaskans are angry that their state is joining the EPA's opposition to greenhouse-gas rules in a landmark case now before the Supreme Court. (February 15, 2007)
Talk of the Nation: Global Warming and the Politics of Polar Bears
Scientists are concerned that the habitats of polar bears might be melting. The debate may affect the environmental philosophy of the Bush administration. Guests explain how the driving factor might be global warming and chemical pollutants carried toward the Arctic Ocean. (January 3, 2007)
All Things Considered: Climate Change May Put Polar Bear on Threatened List
The federal government says climate change threatens the polar bear with extinction, and the efforts under way to arrest global warming will not be adequate to save the mighty Arctic predator. (December 27, 2006)
All Things Considered: Climate Change Cited in Siberian Landscape Shift
Siberia is melting. Vast tracts of Russian tundra, frozen for tens of thousands of years, are starting to thaw. Many experts say the process is taking place so fast they can only attribute it to the effects of global warming. (September 18, 2005)
Day to Day: Inuit Group Confronts Global Warming Threat
Hundreds of Inuit meet in Alaska to discuss global warming and other matters critical to their survival. Sheila Watt-Cloutier, the chairwoman of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, talks with Alex Chadwick about how global warming has impacted life in the north. (July 14, 2006)
All Things Considered: Researchers Race to Catalog Arctic Species
The Arctic Ocean is home to species completely unknown to science — and also a place of rapid change. The summertime ice is melting and could be gone entirely by the end of the century. (September 28, 2006)
Morning Edition: The Arctic's "Hidden Ocean"
The Arctic Ocean is one of the most unexplored places on Earth. It's also changing rapidly — in the summer, sea ice is melting more quickly than usual, due to rising air temperatures. These changes could have serious consequences for Arctic ecosystems. An expedition this past summer set out to survey the biological diversity of the Arctic Ocean, and what species are at risk. (September 28, 2005)
Morning Edition: Native Americans
As the circumstances and conditions of Native American life have evolved over the past half-century, Native American identity has struggled to keep pace. In the latest installment of the Changing Face of America series, NPR's Cheryl Corley examines what it means to be an American Indian at the beginning of the new century. (January 31, 2001)
Morning Edition: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
In the latest National Geographic Radio Expedition, NPR's Elizabeth Arnold travels to a small village north of the Arctic Circle, home of the Gwitchin Indians. These Indians live along the migratory path of a single herd of caribou that pass by the village on their way to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Experts say that underneath the refuge lies the most promising field of oil in North America. The Indians want the animals permanently protected from drilling under the refuge. (December 28, 1998)
Morning Edition: Alaska's Rural Hunters
NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that an old dispute between Alaska and the federal government is threatening one of the state's most cherished freedoms — the right to manage its subsistence hunting and fishing. The federal government says rural residents who need the food to survive should have priority over hunters who have the luxury of shopping in grocery stores. In 1982, Alaska residents approved the rural preference. Since then, the state's governors have tried unsuccessfully to amend Alaska's constitution, which prohibits any special access to wildlife. (October 2, 1997)
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