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This Arctic US Air Base Has Its Eyes on Russia. But Climate is a Bigger Threat

The isolated Thule Air Base in Greenland is the only U.S. outpost that can monitor all of Russia’s missiles, but thawing permafrost is undermining the station.

By Natasha Maki Jessen-Petersen

A tourist at the Ilulissat Icefjord, a UNESCO World Heritage site, on Sept. 7, 2022. The ice there has been dramatically receding from year to year. Credit: Natasha Jessen-Petersen
An aerial view of meltwater lakes formed at the Russell Glacier front, part of the Greenland ice sheet in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, on Aug. 16, 2022. Credit: Lukasz Larsson Warzecha/Getty Images

One of the World’s Coldest Places Is Now the Warmest it’s Been in 1,000 Years, Scientists Say

By Bob Berwyn

Beewise's Beehome is a high-tech beehive that helps beekeepers remotely monitor and care for their bees. Credit: Beewise

Warming Trends: Climate Clues Deep in the Ocean, Robotic Bee Hives and Greenland’s Big Melt

By Katelyn Weisbrod, Bob Berwyn

The Greenland Ice Sheet, which has enough frozen water to raise sea levels by 20 feet, melted away completely at least once about 1 million years ago, new research shows. Credit: Joshua Brown

Long-lost Core Drilled to Prepare Ice Sheet to Hide Nuclear Missiles Holds Clues About a Different Threat

By Bob Berwyn

In this aerial view from a drone water carves a winding channel down the surface of the melting Longyearbreen glacier during a summer heat wave on Svalbard archipelago on July 31, 2020 near Longyearbyen, Norway. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Annual Report Card Marks Another Disastrous Year for the Arctic

By Bob Berwyn

Water from the Greenland ice sheet flows through heather and peat during unseasonably warm weather on Aug. 1, 2019. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Going, Going ... Gone: Greenland’s Melting Ice Sheet Passed a Point of No Return in the Early 2000s

By Bob Berwyn

A researcher assembles an automatic weather station. Credit: East Greenland Ice-core Project

Coronavirus Already Hindering Climate Science, But the Worst Disruptions Are Likely Yet to Come

By Bob Berwyn

Rivers of meltwater form on the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet in the summers. Credit: John Sonntag/NASA

Greenland's Ice Melt Is in 'Overdrive,' With No Sign of Slowing

By Bob Berwyn

Photos of Fracturing Glacier Out of Reach

By Andrew Freeman, for Climate Central

Greenland's Prime Minister Lambasts Greenpeace for Raid on Arctic Oil Rig

By Guest Writer

Greenlanders Eager to Be New Deepwater Oil Frontier

By Guest Writer

NASA: May's Melting of Arctic Ice Close to Speed of July

by Ben Strauss, Climate Central

Greenpeace Expedition Documents Disappearing Greenland Glacier

By Stacy Feldman

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