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Arctic

Environment Science 

Polar Bears, Narwhals Can’t Adapt to Climate Change Fast Enough

February 24, 2021February 25, 2021 JASON SANDEFUR
Arctic, Climate change, wildlife

Animals in the Arctic face an uncertain future as global warming drives catastrophic sea ice loss, forcing polar bears and narwhals to change essential eating habits in ways that increase their risk of starvation.

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Appeals Environment Government 

Alaska Oil Drilling Project Blocked Ahead of Ninth Circuit Challenge

February 5, 2021February 8, 2021 NICHOLAS IOVINO
Alaska, Arctic, drilling, fossil fuel, Ninth Circuit, Oil and gas

Conservation groups say a large-scale oil drilling project on 1.2 million acres in Northern Alaska will exacerbate climate change and harm endangered species.

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Environment Science 

Arctic Ocean Once Covered by Ice and Filled With Fresh Water

February 3, 2021February 3, 2021 MARTIN MACIAS JR
Arctic, Climate change, sea levels

Scientists’ discovery that fresh water, not salt water, once filled ice-covered sections of the Arctic could dramatically reshape our understanding of both ancient sea levels and climate change.

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Energy Environment Government 

Judge Rules First Oil and Gas Lease Sale in Arctic Refuge Can Proceed

January 5, 2021January 6, 2021 JULIE ST. LOUIS and MATTHEW RENDA
Alaska, Arctic, Oil and gas, wildlife refuges

A federal judge in Alaska Tuesday denied injunctive relief to environmental groups on the eve of a first-ever oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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Appeals Business Energy Environment International 

Norway’s Top Court Rejects Climate Challenge to Arctic Oil Exploration

December 22, 2020December 22, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Arctic, Climate change, Norway, oil

Norway’s Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a challenge from environmental groups trying to stop oil exploration in the Arctic, after a historic battle over the country’s climate change commitments.

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Environment Science 

Groggy Climate Giant: Subsea Arctic Permafrost Still Waking Up After 12,000 Years

December 22, 2020December 21, 2020 VICTORIA PRIESKOP
Arctic, Climate change, Greenhouse gas

Scientists researching millennia-old environmental changes still affecting our world today say that the model predicts certain changes over the next three centuries.

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Environment Science 

Ancient Wolf Pup Mummy Uncovered in Yukon Permafrost

December 21, 2020December 22, 2020 NATHAN SOLIS
Arctic, fossils, Wolves

For 57,000 years, a wolf pup lay in her collapsed permafrost den in nearly pristine condition. Then climate change brought her out for all the world to see.

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Environment Government 

Annual Arctic Report Reveals Bleak Picture of Melting Ice

December 8, 2020December 9, 2020 MATTHEW RENDA
Arctic, Climate change, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s annual report card on the Arctic made one thing clear: the Arctic of the past has melted away.

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Environment International Science 

Vast Wildfires in Siberia Linked to Warming Arctic

December 8, 2020December 8, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Arctic, Climate change, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Research, Russia, wildfires

This year’s vast wildfires in far northeastern Russia were linked to broader changes in a warming Arctic, according to a report Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Environment Government 

NOAA Denies Petition to Delist Arctic Ringed Seals

November 25, 2020November 25, 2020 MATTHEW RENDA
animals, Arctic, Endangered Species Act

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Wednesday it would decline to delist the Arctic subspecies of ringed seals from the Endangered Species Act listing, citing a lack of evidence the creatures have recovered.

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Appeals Business Environment International 

Norway Court Begins Review of Arctic Oil Licenses

November 4, 2020November 4, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Arctic, Climate change, licensing, Norway, oil

Norway’s Supreme Court began examining Wednesday a case brought by two environmental groups seeking the cancellation of oil licenses granted by the Norwegian state in the Arctic.

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Environment Science 

Arctic Sea Ice at Record Low October Levels: Danish Institute

October 28, 2020October 28, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Arctic, Climate change, Research

The extent of sea ice in the Arctic was at record lows for October, Danish researchers said Wednesday, adding the unusually warm season meant it was not recovering as fast as normal.

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Environment International Science 

Scientists Return From Arctic With Wealth of Climate Data

October 12, 2020October 12, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Arctic, Climate change, Germany, Research

An icebreaker carrying scientists on a year-long international effort to study the high Arctic has returned to its home port in Germany carrying a wealth of data that will help researchers better predict climate change in the decades to come.

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Environment International Science 

Arctic Odyssey Ends, Bringing Home Tales of Alarming Ice Loss

October 9, 2020October 9, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Arctic, Climate change, Germany, Research

The biggest Arctic expedition in history will return to the German port of Bremerhaven on Monday after a yearlong mission, bringing home observations from scientists that sea ice is melting at a “dramatic rate” in the region.

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Environment International Science 

Cold Diggers? UN Finds a Record Low in Greenland Ice in 1991

September 23, 2020September 23, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Arctic, Climate change, records, Research

For all the recent talk of global warming, climate historians hunting for past temperature extremes have unearthed what the U.N. weather agency calls a new record low in the Northern Hemisphere — nearly -70 degrees Celsius (-93 F) was recorded almost three decades ago in Greenland.

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Environment Science 

Dismay as Huge Chunk of Greenland’s Ice Cap Breaks Off

September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Arctic, Climate change

An enormous chunk of Greenland’s ice cap has broken off in the far northeastern Arctic, a development that scientists say is evidence of rapid climate change.

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Environment International Science 

Record CO2 Emissions for Arctic Wildfires: EU

September 3, 2020September 3, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Arctic, Climate change, pollution, wildfires

This year’s Arctic Circle wildfires, still ablaze, have already surpassed the record set in 2019 for CO2 emissions, adding to the carbon pollution humanity needs to curtail, the European Union’s Earth observation program said Thursday.

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Uncategorized 

UN Agency Laments Summer’s ‘Deep Wound’ to Earth’s Ice Cover

September 1, 2020September 1, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Arctic, United Nations, Weather

The United Nations weather agency says this summer will go down for leaving a “deep wound” in the cryosphere — the planet’s frozen parts — amid a heat wave in the Arctic, shrinking sea ice and the collapse of a leading Canadian ice shelf.

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International Politics 

Russian Navy Conducts Major Maneuvers Near Alaska

August 28, 2020August 28, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Alaska, Arctic, military, Russia

The Russian navy conducted major war games near Alaska involving dozens of ships and aircraft, the military said Friday, the biggest such drills in the area since Soviet times.

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Environment Science 

Scientists on Arctic Mission Make Unplanned Detour to Pole

August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Arctic, Research

A German icebreaker carrying scientists on a year-long international expedition in the high Arctic has reached the North Pole, after making an unplanned detour because of lighter-than-usual sea ice conditions.

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