Aug 18 Obama administration approves Arctic drilling ahead of president’s visit to Alaska By Kevin Freking, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's approval of the final permit to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean clashes with the message President Barack Obama will deliver when he visits Alaska to emphasize the dangers of climate change, some environmental… Continue reading
Dec 18 Arctic warming twice as fast as rest of the world By Justin Scuiletti Arctic air temperatures are rising at more than twice the rate of the rest of the world, a new report says. Continue reading
Sep 17 Life at the ‘Top of the World’ By Mike Fritz At 330 miles above the Arctic Circle, life has never been easy for those brave enough to call Barrow home. The population currently hovers around 5,000 and about half of the residents are native Inupiat Eskimo, indigenous people who have… Continue reading
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Jul 25 Watch Greenland Goes Green: Ice Sheet Melted in Four Days On July 8, NASA satellite imagery showed about 40 percent of Greenland's top ice layer intact. By July 12, only four days later, 97 percent of the ice had melted. Margaret Warner asks NASA's Thomas Wagner for scientific explanation of… Continue watching
Apr 14 Watch Into the Cold: A Filmmaker’s Trek to the Top of the World Sebastian Copeland chronicled his journey to the North Pole in his latest documentary. Continue watching
Apr 10 As Polar Year Ends, Researchers Look for Climate Clues in Mountains of Data By PBS News Hour A period of intensive study of the Earth's polar caps, called the International Polar Year, ended in March, leaving researchers with a bounty of data to sort through to help inform the next generation of polar research. Continue reading
Nov 25 Watch Polar Bears Struggle to Survive as Arctic Climate Changes As climate change threatens polar bears' survival, laws put in place to protect the bears are impacting the Inuit people who have long hunted them. ITN's ITV news reports on the plight of both polar bears and Native people in… Continue watching
Sep 04 Study: Arctic Sea Ice at Second-lowest Level on Record By Admin, PBS News Hour The Arctic ice cap has melted to a point that exceeds the 2005 level -- previously the second lowest on record -- and could surpass the record this year, scientists at the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center have… Continue reading