Aug 31 Watch 5:53 Obama to highlight climate change on first-ever presidential visit to the Alaskan Arctic By PBS News Hour President Obama makes a historic trip to Alaska this week, during which he’ll attend a meeting of the Arctic Council to stress the importance for action on climate change and meet with Native Alaskans whose lives have been affected by… Continue watching
Aug 28 Nations hope to reel in Arctic overfishing By Larisa Epatko On Monday, the United States hosts the leaders of 20 nations at a conference on critical issues facing the Arctic. One topic at the conference in Anchorage, Alaska, is the potential for overfishing in the central Arctic Ocean. Continue reading
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