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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
As gas prices rise, a customer pays at the pump at a Chevron station in West Hollywood. Credit: Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Global Energy Report: Pain at the Pump, High Energy Costs Could Create a Silver Lining for Climate and Security

By James Bruggers

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg holds a news conference holds a press conference ahead of the NATO leaders summit held in Spain's capital Madrid, at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on June 27, 2022. Credit: NATO/POOL/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

NATO Moves to Tackle Military Greenhouse Gas Emissions Even While Girding Against Russia

By Marianne Lavelle

The new Cheniere LNG export terminal is across the water, in Louisiana, from the neighborhood of Sabine Pass in Port Arthur, Texas. Credit: James Bruggers

Should EPA Back-Off Pollution Controls to Help LNG Exports Replace Russian Gas in Germany?

By James Bruggers

An aerial view from a drone shows a grain cart transferring corn to a transport truck as they harvest in a field on Oct. 12, 2019 in Baxter, Iowa. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

As Russia’s War In Ukraine Disrupts Food Production, Experts Question the Expanding Use of Cropland for Biofuels

By Georgina Gustin

A view shows nickel sheets at Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company, a unit of Russia's metals and mining company Nornickel, in the town of Monchegorsk in the Murmansk region on February 25, 2021. Credit: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images

Russia’s War in Ukraine Reveals a Risk for the EV Future: Price Shocks in Precious Metals

By Marianne Lavelle

Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks in a general debate in a plenary session in the Bundestag. Credit: Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images

Germany’s New Government Had Big Plans on Climate, Then Russia Invaded Ukraine. What Happens Now?

By Dan Gearino

A convoy of Russian military vehicles is seen as the vehicles move towards border in Donbas region of eastern Ukraine on Feb. 23, 2022 in Russian border city Rostov. Credit: Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Whatever His Motives, Putin’s War in Ukraine Is Fueled by Oil and Gas

By Marianne Lavelle

People run for cover in front of a burning house during shelling in the city of Irpin, outside Kyiv, on March 4, 2022. Credit: Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images

Activists Deplore the Human Toll and Environmental Devastation from Russia’s Unprovoked War of Aggression in Ukraine

By Katie Surma

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., speaks during the Ban Russian Energy Imports Act news conference in the Capitol on Thursday, March 3, 2022. Credit: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Today’s Climate: Manchin, Eyeing a Revival of Build Back Better, Wants a Ban on Russian Oil and Gas

By Kristoffer Tigue

UN Secretary-General António Guterres appears on a screen as he delivers a remote speech at the opening of a session of the UN Human Rights Council on Feb. 28, 2022 in Geneva. Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

‘Delay is Death,’ said UN Chief António Guterres of the New IPCC Report Showing Climate Impacts Are Outpacing Adaptation Efforts

By Bob Berwyn

In Chernobyl, a Ukrainian technician in 1998 checked a spot with a Geiger counter in the forest outside the damaged nuclear plant, which burned in a wildfire in 1992, six year after the worst nuclear accident in history. The fire burned 667 acres. As a consequence, the radioactive fallout was released in smoke aerosols and transported various distances while radioactive ashes remained on the site. Credit: Patrick Landmann/Getty Images.

Chernobyl Is Not the Only Nuclear Threat Russia’s Invasion Has Sparked in Ukraine

By Michael Kodas

Ukrainian Military Forces servicemen of the 92nd mechanized brigade use tanks, self-propelled guns and other armored vehicles to conduct live-fire exercises near the town of Chuguev, in the Kharkiv region, on Feb. 10, 2022. Credit: Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images

How the Ukraine Conflict Looms as a Turning Point in Russia’s Uneasy Energy Relationship with the European Union

By Marianne Lavelle

Pipe systems and shut-off devices are seen at the gas receiving station of the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline. Credit: Stefan Sauer/picture alliance via Getty Images

How Climate and the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Undergirds the Ukraine-Russia Standoff

By Marianne Lavelle

Vasily Ryabinin scales an overlook on the Taimyr Peninsula in June 2020, with the sprawl of the Norilsk Nickel complex visible below. He toured the area with Russian journalists shortly after resigning from his job with Russia's environmental protection agency due to his concern over what he saw as its failure to fully investigate the spill of 6.5 million gallons of diesel fuel into Arctic waterways last year. Credit: Yuri Kozyrev, NOOR

‘A Trash Heap for Our Children’: How Norilsk, in the Russian Arctic, Became One of the Most Polluted Places on Earth

By Marianne Lavelle

President Joe Biden delivers remarks as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate and former Secretary of State John Kerry listens during a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate with 40 world leaders at the East Room of the White House April 22, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images

As Nations Gather for Biden’s Virtual Climate Summit, Ambitious Pledges That Still Fall Short of Paris Goal

By Marianne Lavelle, Georgina Gustin, Nicholas Kusnetz

A handout picture released by the Suez Canal Authority on March 24, 2021 shows a part of the Taiwan-owned MV Ever Given (Evergreen), a 1,300-foot-long vessel, lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across the waterway of Egypt's Suez Canal. Credit: Suez Canal Authority/Handout/AFP via Getty Images

Russia is Turning Ever Given’s Plight into a Marketing Tool for Arctic Shipping. But It May Be a Hard Sell

By Sabrina Shankman

A view of a forest fire in central Yakutia from a helicopter. Credit: Yevgeny SofroneyevTASS via Getty Images

Scientists Attribute Record-Shattering Siberian Heat and Wildfires to Climate Change

By Bob Berwyn

A Drop in Sulfate Emissions During the Coronavirus Lockdown Could Intensify Arctic Heatwaves

By GLORIA DICKIE

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