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Arctic Circle

Large icebergs float away as the sun rises near Kulusuk, Greenland, Aug. 16, 2019.
Critical State
Arctic alternatives: Part II
A polar bear is shown in the distance standing on a piece of ice among a large grouping of flat floating ice pieces.
How the Trump administration’s climate denial left its mark on the Arctic Council
The harbor of Nuuk, Greenland's capital.
China’s Arctic ambitions have revived US interest in the region
Abandoned snow-covered buildings
Development
‘I am a hostage of the north’: Trapped in a post-Gulag Arctic city
A view of Murmansk with a smoke stack and other buildings as the sun rises.
Polar
The sun sometimes rises: How one Russian city makes it through the polar night
nato
NATO begins its biggest war games in decades
A person walks through a puddle in Shismaref, Alaska.
The Big Melt
An Alaskan village is falling into the sea. Washington is looking the other way.
A large concrete sphere sits on a brown hill overlooking a slate blue sea.
The Big Melt
In Iceland, a shifting sculpture for a changing Arctic  
Protestors hold up signs at a rally against a proposed Kinder Morgan oil pipeline expansion on Burnaby Mountain in 2014 in British Columbia. In late May, the Canadian government announced it would fund an expansion project for the Kinder Morgan Trans Moun
With pipeline decision, Canada’s Trudeau draws ire of environmental supporters
Sámi renideer herder Reiulf Aleksandersen and his son build a fence for gathering their herd on Rooksavardi, or Red Mountain, in far northern Norway.
Environment
This family is already being hurt by climate change. They might also be hurt by a solution.
ANWR porcupine caribou
Economics
Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more likely now than ever before
Kivalina, AK
Environment
Will these Alaska villagers be America’s first climate change refugees?
Russian former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Conflict & Justice
It’s going to be a merry Christmas for former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Environment
British Columbia rejects oil pipeline, casting Keystone in new light
Up North In Search of the Polar Bear
Adventures Above the Arctic Circle
Arctic Thaw
Arctic Gender Imbalance
Alaska’s Changing Climate