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Sea ice breaks apart as the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica traverses the Northwest Passage through the Victoria Strait in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in a Friday, July 21, 2017, file photo.
Climate Change
Sea ice plays a crucial role in cooling the planet. It’s melting at record-breaking rates.
Chanthon Bun, who was incarcerated for 23 years, part of that time in San Quentin State Prison in California, shows artwork from an origami course offered in the prison.
Immigration
He’s out of prison and has COVID-19. But he’s still sheltering from ICE.
Several people are shown through a stone window with metal bars on it walking.
Top of The World
ICE says international students must take classes in person; TikTok planning to pull out of Hong Kong; More students return to school in South Africa
Nathaniel B Palmer in port
Into the Thaw: Decoding Thwaites Glacier
Antarctica Dispatch 1: Gearing up and shipping out
Snow is blown off of the calving front off of Thurston Island in western Antarctica in this photo, taken in November 2014. New findings show the western side of Antarctica to be more vulnerable to warming oceans — and increased ice loss — than first thoug
A scientist’s response to Antarctic ice loss: ‘We can act.’
Frozen ice Bering Sea
Environment
Bering Sea loses half its sea ice over two weeks
Sheriff Thomas Hodgson, who runs the Bristol County Jail
Conflict
How a few notations by a school resource officer caused a teen to wind up in a high-security detention facility
bensalem police
Conflict
Police in Trump-supporting towns aid immigration officials in crackdown
DHS bus
Conflict
The complicated reasons why some people overstay their US visas
Line of protesters on lawn behind fence, with police officer near tree at edge of photo
Justice
California governor signs sanctuary bill into law. Supporters say it’s ‘probably not enough.’
Balloon
Conflict
After Arpaio guilty verdict, immigrant advocates want his legacy dismantled
Yvonne Chen
Global Politics
Should immigration agents be allowed to wait around courts to detain people?
Army veteran Hector Barajas
Conflict
These deported vets risked their lives for the US. Now, they struggle to return.
Mario Martinez
Global Politics
Serving in the US military won’t protect these veterans from being deported
Detention center
Justice
How immigration detention creates a shadow prison system
A view of hands on the window of a prison cell door
Global Politics
Poor health care in immigrant detention centers may get worse under Trump
aerial photo of large complex in foothills
Conflict
A new government report is on hold because of errors — and now we know even less about immigration enforcement
Glacier in Antarctica
Environment
Don’t let Antarctica’s size fool you. It’s melting fast.
New American citizens (L to R) Leslie Tapia, from Mexico, Sanzida Khanam, from Bangladesh and Pablo Espinales, from Ecuador, raise their hands for the Pledge of Allegiance during a naturalization ceremony at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on J
Economics
The US government finally lifts the curse of the ‘golden cage’ visa
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
Tourists crowd around the pit in the Coudersport Ice Mine, a Pennsylvania tourist attraction where ice only forms during the summer.
Environment
A geological mystery draws tourists to the Appalachians
Tourists crowd around the pit in the Coudersport Ice Mine, a Pennsylvania tourist attraction where ice only forms during the summer.
Environment
A geological mystery draws tourists to the Appalachians
The MV Akademik Shokalskiy stranded in ice off Antarctica on December 29. After a blizzard finally cleared the Russian ship's 52 passengers were airlifted to a nearby icebreaker.
Environment
Icebound Antarctic passengers airlifted to safety
Environment
Scientists reveal startling decrease in Arctic Ocean ice cover
Environment
VIDEO: Snowy, icy weather in Seattle makes for unpleasant conditions
Remembering Alex Cassie: A Key Figure in ‘The Great Escape’
Environment
Video: Filming Underwater ‘Icicles of Death’ in Antarctica
Sports
Slideshow: World Championships of Ice and Snow Sailing
Arts, Culture & Media
Video: ‘Port Symphony’ Brings Ships to Life in Canada
Environment
Big changes in the world’s cold regions
Shepa Artic Ice Project
Farewell to Winter
SHRINKING POLAR PACK ICE
MELTING ICE DISPLAY
Antarctica Series: Part 3 – Is Global Warming Affecting Polar Ice Shelves?
Antarctica Series, Part 3: Is Global Warming Affecting Polar Ice Shelves?
Space Survival
Greenland’s Ice Melt
Great Lakes Ice
Lake Ice
Arts, Culture & Media
Geo answer