Sep 20 NASA satellites record 6th lowest arctic ice extent on record By Travis Daub From NASA: This summer’s sea ice minimum in the Arctic is still the sixth lowest extent of the satellite record and is 432,000 square miles (1.12 million square kilometers) lower than the 1981-2010 average, roughly the size of… Continue reading
Sep 20 Watch EPA Proposal on Power Plant Emissions May Be Regulation ‘Launching Point’ EPA Proposal on Power Plant Emissions May Be Regulation 'Launching Point'… Continue watching
Sep 18 Watch Melting Ice, Warming Waters Could Erode Way of Life for Alaska’s North Slope Melting Ice, Warming Waters Could Erode Way of Life for Alaska's North Slope… Continue watching
Sep 17 Watch Unmapped Routes May Pose Dangers for Shipping Boom in Arctic Waters Unmapped Routes May Pose Dangers for Shipping Boom in Arctic Waters… Continue watching
Sep 17 Controversy Over Shell’s Oil Exploration in Arctic Continues Salvage teams assess damage to Royal Dutch Shell's Kulluk drill barge in January after the rig ran aground near Kodiak Island in Alaska. Photo by AFP/Greenpeace/Robert Meyers Rapidly thawing sea ice in the Arctic Circle has threatened polar wildlife… Continue reading
Sep 17 In Alaska, Melting Ice Could Erode Way of Life Temperatures in the Arctic are warming twice as fast as any other place on the planet. PBS NewsHour recently traveled there to report on how Alaska Natives are coping with the cascading effects of climate change on their subsistence lifestyle. 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
Sep 17 ASK #seachange reporter Craig Welch anything at noon .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } On Monday, PBS NewsHour aired… Continue reading
Sep 17 Russia’s Cold War navy has been revived to patrol the melting arctic By News Desk Russia's nuclear powered battle cruiser "Peter the Great" Russia is moving ships to the arctic and rebuilding a naval base in Siberia to begin regular, permanent patrols of the newly open Northern Sea Route, reports the Christian Science Monitor. Continue reading
Sep 16 Watch Alaska’s Resilient Crabs Not Immune to Effects of Rapidly Acidifying Waters Alaska's Resilient Crabs Not Immune to Effects of Rapidly Acidifying Waters… Continue watching