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| Oct 14, 2026 | Climate change: spring snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere | Spring (April–June) snow extent each year compared to the 1981–2010 average. Years with above-average snow cover are blue-green, while years with below-average snow cover are brown. Graph by Climate.us, based on Rutgers Snow Lab data provid... |
| Oct 13, 2026 | 2026 Antarctic sea ice winter maximum is third lowest of satellite record | Antarctic sea ice probably reached its winter maximum extent on September 14, 2026, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). At 17.59 million square kilometers (6.79 million square miles), the 2026 annual maximum is third... |
| Sep 23, 2026 | Arctic sea ice 2026 summer minimum extent tied for 10th lowest | Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent on September 12, 2026, the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has announced. At 4.60 million square kilometers (1.78 million square miles), the 2026 minimum extent is statistica... |
| Sep 19, 2026 | St. Mary’s Glacier melted away. Will Colorado’s iconic snowfield ever return? | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
St. Mary’s Glacier is gone.
And it may never return to its glory days as an iconic snowfield above 10,000 feet in Clear Creek County, where it drew year-round skiers and graced postcards mailed hom... |
| Sep 7, 2026 | Arctic Sea Ice 2026 Shadowed 2012 Catastrophe Until August; 2012 Record Intact Only by Chance | By Elijah Armfield
Published: Sep 07 2026, 4:37 PM EDT
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| Jul 21, 2026 | Arctic Winter Ice Never Paused: Two Record Lows Restore Decades-Long Decline | By Earl Bensen
Published: Jul 21 2026, 9:46 AM EDT
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| Apr 12, 2026 | Winter’s alarmingly low snowpack offers a glimpse of the changing rhythm of water in the western US (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Imtiaz Rangwala
Winter is more than just a season in the western U.S. – it is a savings account to get farms and homes through the long, dry summer ahead. As the snowpack that accumulates in the... |
| Mar 27, 2026 | Arctic sea ice hits lowest winter level as unprecedented heat hits smashes records all over Earth | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vital Arctic sea ice shrank to tie its lowest measured level for the winter, the season when ice grows, as a warming Earth shattered records ... |
| Feb 10, 2026 | Record snow drought in Western US raises concern for a spring of water shortages and wildfires | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By DORANY PINEDA and SETH BORENSTEIN
A record snow drought with unprecedented heat is hitting most of the American West, depleting future water supplies, making it more vulnerable to wildfires and ... |
| Jan 21, 2026 | Meteorologists blame a stretched polar vortex, moisture, lack of sea ice for dangerous winter blast | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Warm Arctic waters and cold continental land are combining to stretch the dreaded polar vortex in a way that will send much of the United Sta... |
| Sep 13, 2025 | The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 8 September, 2025 | Back to Publications Second Canadian Coast Guard Vessel Reaches Grounded Cargo Ship
As reported by Eye on the Arctic on September 8, a second Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker, the CCGS Jean Goodwill, has arrived in the Franklin Strait, where... |
| Aug 26, 2025 | Scientists give harsh grades to Trump administration work aimed at undoing a key climate finding | The Trump administration in July proposed revoking a 2009 government finding that climate change is a threat to public health and welfare, a concept known as the “endangerment” finding that is backed by mainstream science. Overturning it co... |
| Aug 22, 2025 | The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 18 August, 2025 | Back to Publications Chinese Sabotage Ship Spotted in the Arctic Again
As reported by The Barents Observer on August 19, the Chinese container ship Newnew Polar Bear, which was involved in a sabotage incident near the region in 2023, has re... |
| Jun 14, 2025 | The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 9 June, 2025 | Back to Publications Quebec Authorities Monitoring Tuberculosis Outbreaks in Nunavik
As reported by CBC News on June 10, Quebec’s public health service stated that it is closely monitoring the increasing number of tuberculosis cases in Nuna... |
| Jun 11, 2025 | Greenland and Iceland saw record heat in May. What does that mean for the world? | The extreme heat was 40 times more likely compared to the pre-industrial climate.
FILE – People climb to the top of what once was the Okjokull glacier, in Iceland, Aug. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)
FILE – Vice President JD Vance t... |
| Apr 29, 2025 | Planetary Approaches to Arctic Politics: The Arctic Institute’s Planetary Series 2025 – Final Remarks | Back to Publications
A huge iceberg in Lancaster Sound, Nunavut. Photo: Juho Karhu
In a time characterised by the global climate crisis, biodiversity loss and pollution, imagining new ways of thinking and organising human-nature relations a... |
| Apr 12, 2025 | The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 7 April, 2025 | Back to Publications Arctic Sea Ice Extent at Historic Low Point in March 2025
As reported by The Weather Network on April 8, Arctic sea ice extent in March was the lowest ever recorded for that month, measuring six percent below the long-t... |
| Feb 6, 2025 | The US is freezing and La Nina usually eases warming. Earth just set another heat record anyway | The big natural factor in global temperatures is usually the natural cycle of changes in the equatorial Pacific Ocean waters. When the central Pacific is especially warm, it’s an El Nino and global temperatures tend to spike. Last year was ... |
| Jan 9, 2025 | Greenland: The Iceberg of Opportunity and Threat | Greenland is a paradox. It’s a land of ice and a treasure trove of resources. As the world warms, this remote island is becoming a focal point for both environmental concern and geopolitical interest. The melting ice reveals not just a chan... |
| Jan 8, 2025 | The Polar Vortex: A Bitter Chill in a Warming World | The polar vortex is a beast. It lurks in the Arctic, a swirling mass of icy air. When it stays put, the North Pole remains frigid. But when it stretches and plunges south, it brings a bitter chill to the Southern United States. This winter,... |
| Jan 7, 2025 | Why Greenland? Remote but resource-rich island occupies a key position in a warming world | Locked inside are valuable rare earth minerals needed for telecommunications, as well as uranium, billions of untapped barrels of oil and a vast supply of natural gas that used to be inaccessible but is becoming less so.
Many of the same mi... |
| Jan 7, 2025 | Why more frequent cold blasts could be coming from global warming | The worst will be in areas that just got hit with heavy snow, from Kansas to Washington, said National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center meteorologist Zack Taylor: “That’s where we could see actual overnight lows down well into the ... |
| Dec 7, 2024 | The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 2 December, 2024 | Back to Publications Nuuk Celebrates New International Airport
As reported by Forbes on December 3, the new international airport has opened in Nuuk, Greenland, with the airport receiving its first transatlantic flight from Copenhagen, Denm... |
| Oct 11, 2024 | The Arctic This Week Take Five: Week of 7 October, 2024 | Back to Publications NWT Government Launches Program to Offset Shipping Costs from Supply Disruptions
As reported by CBC News on October 10, the government of the Northwest Territories has announced that a new program will provide funds to ... |
| Jul 31, 2023 | Antarctica has a winter sea ice shortfall four times the size of Texas | Data: NSIDC; Chart: Jacque Schrag/Axios
Antarctica is missing over 1 million square miles of floating sea ice, even though it's currently the dead of winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
Why it matters: Scientists don't know what is... |
| Jun 15, 2023 | Algae blooms increase snowmelt in the Pacific Northwest by 20% | Algae that commonly grow on snow in the Pacific Northwest have been ignored in melt models, but their presence significantly increases snowmelt compared with clean, white snow, according to a study conducted on Mount Baker in the North Casc... |
| Jul 31, 2022 | На МКС начал работу детектор минеральной пыли EMIT от НАСА | 27 июля на МКС начал сбор данных детектор минеральной пыли в земной атмосфере Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) от НАСА. Прибор устанавливался на роботизированную руку Canadarm2 за пределами МКС более 40 часов начиная с... |
| Nov 5, 2021 | A year after a crippling fire, one of the Coast Guard’s most important ships is on a rare trip around North America | US Coast Guard icebreaker Healy in the Arctic Ocean, August 31, 2009. US Coast Guard/Petty Officer Patrick Kelley
Last year, US Coast Guard icebreaker Healy was crippled by a fire in one of its propulsion motors.
After replacing that motor,... |
| Aug 30, 2021 | Canadian Cleantech Innovation: Confronting the Climate Crisis | If you look up the term “Canadian Cleantech” on any search engine, you’ll quickly notice that there’s no shortage of daily news content covering the advancements, projects, and funding being funneled into cleantech innovation efforts curren... |
| Feb 25, 2021 | Avalanche danger high, 32 deaths confirmed this season | DENVER (AP) — Snowboarder Maurice Kervin glided into the snow along the steep terrain in the Colorado backcountry like he's done so many times.
There was no warning for what happened next as he glanced over his shoulder: a rush of snow... |
| Jan 3, 2021 | No, Polar Bears Do Not Live In Antarctica. But Could They? | A polar bear standing upright on ice in the Arctic.getty |
| Dec 23, 2020 | A Bold Request As Climate Change Ravages The Arctic | According to the 2020 Arctic Report Card released by NOAA in December, things are pretty bad. The report, an annual compilation of peer-reviewed science (not Twitter or editorial opinions), is produced by over 120 scientists from 15 countri... |
| Aug 31, 2020 | How climate change feeds off itself and gets even worse | Sign up for our daily briefingMake your busy days simpler with Axios AM/PM. Catch up on what's new and why it matters in just 5 minutes.
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| Jul 21, 2020 | Climate Change Pushes Polar Bears Towards Extinction, Study Finds | The majority of polar bears will likely disappear by the end of the century if greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed, according to a new study published Monday.
While scientists have long known polar bears are threatened by global heating... |
| May 25, 2020 | Climate Models Underestimated Greenland’s Melting, With Catastrophic Impact On Whole World | 1
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Scientists are concerned that current climate models do not fully account for the impact of atmospheric conditions on the Greenland Ice Sheet and, consequently, may dramatically underestimate melting... |
| Mar 6, 2020 | Boulder scientists focused on rain-on-snow impact in Arctic | Many thousands of reindeer dropping dead on Russia’s remote Yamal Peninsula from starvation. Large percentages of the muskox population on Banks Island in the Canadian Arctic found dead with a bacterium commonly found in pigs and turkeys.
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| Feb 3, 2020 | Rising Seas: Record Warmth Found at ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Water Line | The Thwaites Glacier, in West Antarctica, is one of the glaciers considered most at-risk for collapse over the next century, earning it the nickname “doomsday glacier.” Scientists have been studying the glacier with increasing concern over ... |
| Nov 11, 2019 | Каналы помогают городам расти, а небоскребы — бороться с землетрясениями: как учёные и бизнес меняют земной ландшафт Статьи редакции | Подборка инженерных проектов из России, США, Нидерландов, Египта и других стран.
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| Oct 29, 2019 | Far more people are threatened by rising seas than scientists realized, a study shows: 'The magnitude of the numbers speaks for itself' | A man and his son watch as waves crash off sea cliffs along the southeast shore of Oahu as Hurricane Lane approaches Honolulu on August 24, 2018. Caleb Jones/AP
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| May 22, 2019 | Ice sheets are melting far faster than we thought — in a worst-case climate breakdown, coastal cities like New York and Shanghai would be swamped | Photo by: Martin Zwick/REDA&CO/UIG via Getty Images
Greenhouse-gas emissions are trapping heat on the planet and warming the oceans, causing unprecedented sea-level rise and coastal flooding around the globe.
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| Mar 26, 2019 | What Earth might look like in 80 years if we're lucky — and if we're unlucky | A stercorarius skua lands on an iceberg on Horseshoe Island in Antarctica. Photo by Ozge Elif Kizil/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
2018 was the warmest year year on record for the planet's oceans, and the fourth-warmest year ever in term... |
| Mar 24, 2019 | Melting glaciers unveil dead bodies, ancient disease, and more | Google Maps
Temperatures are rising on Mount Everest, causing glaciers and snow to melt, and exposing the remains of deceased mountaineers who attempted to climb the mountain.
Hundreds of people have died while attempting to climb the mount... |
| Jan 2, 2013 | Antarctic IRC: how NASA’s flying lab stays connected | The view from the cockpit of NASA's DC-8 flying lab during an Operation IceBridge survey flight 500 meters above the Antarctic ice fields.
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| Sep 19, 2012 | Arctic ice shrinks to an all-time low in sign of global warming | ASSOCIATED PRESS
This image made available by NASA shows the amount of summer sea ice in the Arctic on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, at center in white, and the 1979 to 2000 average extent for the day shown, with the yellow line. Scientists say s... |
| Sep 23, 2008 | Google Earth shows us just how bad polar ice melt really is | The National Snow and Ice Center, a division of Proctor & Gamble, has uploaded Google Earth-compatible KML files that make it plain as day to see polar ice cap melting over the past several years. If you don’t have Google Earth installe... |
| Antarctic sea ice has been at record low levels for months — here’s what that means | On February 21, sea ice in the Antarctic set a record low for the second year in a row, going back to when record-keeping started in 1979.
One way to track the climate health at the poles is by tracking sea ice, which is the frozen seawater... |
| Arctic sea ice hits record low by a scary margin – here are some terrifying charts | Due to its cyclical nature, the global sea ice concentration has been the source of some conflicted reports over climate change – sometimes even used as a talking point by climate change deniers when the ice was gaining before winter. It’s,... |
| A year after a crippling fire, one of the Coast Guard's most important ships is on a rare trip around North America | US Coast Guard icebreaker Healy in the Arctic Ocean, August 31, 2009. US Coast Guard/Petty Officer Patrick Kelley
Last year, US Coast Guard icebreaker Healy was crippled by a fire in one of its propulsion motors.
After replacing that motor,... |
