Arctic

In Two Opposite Decisions on Alaska Oil Drilling, Biden Walks a Difficult Path in Search of Bipartisanship

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, supports oil and gas development and also recognizes the impacts of climate change. Her vote could be crucial in enacting historic climate policy.

By Marianne Lavelle

New Arctic Council Reports Underline the Growing Concerns About the Health and Climate Impacts of Polar Air Pollution

By Bob Berwyn

Projected Surge of Lightning Spells More Wildfire Trouble for the Arctic

By Bob Berwyn

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

By Sabrina Shankman

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

By Bob Berwyn

What’s On Interior’s To-Do List? A Full Plate of Public Lands Issues—and Trump Rollbacks—for Deb Haaland

By Judy Fahys

Warming Trends: A Facebook Plan to Debunk Climate Myths, ‘Meltdown’ and a Sad Yeti

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Global Ice Loss on Pace to Drive Worst-Case Sea Level Rise

By Bob Berwyn

Warming Trends: A Manatee with ‘Trump’ on its Back, a Climate Version of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and an Arctic Podcast

By Katelyn Weisbrod

How the Trump Administration’s Climate Denial Left Its Mark on The Arctic Council

By Sabrina Shankman

Trump Administration Offers Drilling Leases in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge, but No Major Oil Firms Bid

By Sabrina Shankman

Many Scientists Now Say Global Warming Could Stop Relatively Quickly After Emissions Go to Zero

By Bob Berwyn

Annual Report Card Marks Another Disastrous Year for the Arctic

By Bob Berwyn

Not Waiting for Public Comment, Trump Administration Schedules Lease Sale for Arctic Wildlife Refuge

By Sabrina Shankman

Warm Arctic, Cold Continents? It Sounds Counterintuitive, but Research Suggests it’s a Thing

By Bob Berwyn

Trump's Interior Department Pressures Employees to Approve Seismic Testing in ANWR

By Sabrina Shankman

Senate 2020: In Alaska, a Controversy Over an Embattled Mine Has Tightened the Race

By Sabrina Shankman

New Climate Warnings in Old Permafrost: 'It’s a Little Scary Because it’s Happening Under Our Feet.'

By Bob Berwyn

The Trump Administration Moves to Open Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to Logging

By Katelyn Weisbrod