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A small crowd of people are shown examining green ballots next to rows of boxes.
Politics
Main opposition party against mining wins Greenland election
Arts, Culture & Media
Arctic Inspiration
Arts, Culture & Media
Arctic in Residence
Arts, Culture & Media
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A man walks in the snow next to the Houses of Parliament in London on March 1. Brtain and much of the rest of Europe have been hit with a late winter blast linked to extreme warming in the Arctic.
Environment
Europe’s cold blast, Arctic’s heat wave are ‘two sides of the same coin’
A view of tundra landscape in the Rocky Mountains — 11,000 feet from sea level.
Science
In the dead of winter, plants are already starting to prepare for spring — underground
A research team crossing an ice plateau in the Indian Himalayas faced risks of hidden crevasses, storms, avalanches and earthquakes.
Science
Climate change research can be risky. But not doing it is even riskier.
A polar bear keeps close to her young along the Beaufort Sea coast in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, March 6, 2007.
Environment
For polar bears, melting ice in the Arctic means less room to roam for food
Arctic
Global Politics
President Trump, why are scientists finding their research suddenly being censored by the government?
The Polar jet stream carries weather systems around the northern hemisphere. It's powered by the temperature differential between the Arctic and areas farther south, but new research finds that it's being disrupted as rapid warming in the Arctic reduces t
Global Politics
Here’s a new climate change reality that Trump’s new policies ignore
Wind patterns in the ice pack that covers the Arctic Ocean north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska on March 18, 2011.
Science
Sea ice has hit new record lows at both poles
Freshwater ponds appear atop the Arctic ice
Economics
Arctic ice melt poses a risk of uncontrollable climate change, scientists say
The pool at Barneo Ice Camp.
Global Politics
A tussle between Russia and Norway at an exclusive resort at the top of the world
A general view of the Exit Glacier is seen at Kenai Fjords National Park in Seward, Alaska, September 1, 2015.
Environment
Global temperatures rise to scary new levels
Greenland's Sermilik fjord is choked with huge icebergs from one of the island's biggest glaciers. But climate researchers working in the fjord and on the Helheim glacier are looking for tiny clues in hopes of getting a better handle on how cliamte change
Environment
Looking small for big answers in Greenland
Dark rock above the Helheim glacier in southeastern Greenland marks its former level, before a sudden and dramatic retreat of hit many Greenland glaciers a decade ago. Scientists working on the Helheim and the fjord it drains into are looking for clues to
Environment
In Greenland, a climate change mystery with clues written in water and stone
The coming of Santa Claus, by Thomas Nast
Belief
How and when the North Pole became part of Christmas
Demonstrators protest against Royal Dutch Shell near the Polar Pioneer oil drilling rig on May 16, 2015, in Seattle.
Environment
$7 billion later, a dry well sends Shell home from the Arctic
British singer Charlotte Church holds her hands to her face during an environmental protest near the offices of Shell in central London, Britain August 26, 2015.
Environment
Is America’s newest frontier in the Arctic?
An iceberg from the Helheim Glacier in calm waters, Sermilik fjord, East Greenland.
Environment
Grizzlies, polar bears evolve with climate change.
"Kayaktivists" demonstrate in Seattle's Elliot Bay against the arrival last month of the Shell's massive Polar Pioneer oil rig, rising behind them above the city's waterfront. Shell is using Seattle as a staging area for its new offshore drilling operatio
Environment
The road to Arctic oil drilling runs through Seattle. People there are trying to block it.
A bank of this lake thawed in the Gates of the Arctic National Park in Alaska, allowing the Okokmilaga River to cut through and drain it to sea.
Environment
Earth’s biggest natural fridge is turning into a greenhouse gas machine
A calving glacier off Greenland
Environment
A seven-year-old photo captures the thunderous changes in Arctic glacier melt
Ice scientists Ken Golden and Chris Polashenski drill a plastic tube into the Arctic ice cap north of Alaska as part of their research into melt ponds that form on the ice every spring. The ponds play a key role in the accellerated warming of the Arctic,
Environment
A scientist unlocks one of the mysteries of Arctic ice melt
This gaping hole in the Siberian tundra was the first of two recently discovered on Russia's far northern Yamal Peninsula. Scientists say they almost certainly appeared on the landscape only recently, and may be a result of a buildup of gas underground, l
Environment
Scientists are trying to get to the bottom of those mysterious new holes in Siberia
This gaping hole in the Siberian tundra was the first of two recently discovered on Russia's far northern Yamal Peninsula. Scientists say they almost certainly appeared on the landscape only recently, and may be a result of a buildup of gas underground, l
Environment
Scientists are trying to get to the bottom of those mysterious new holes in Siberia
The European Space Agency’s Earth Explorer CryoSat makes precise measurements of changes in the thickness of marine ice floating in the polar oceans, as well as variations in the thickness of the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica.
Environment
On a long downward slide, scientists say 2013 was an up year for Arctic Ice