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The warming Arctic

Record polar temperatures are changing the landscape, upending local ways of life – and having serious knock-on consequences around the world. So what can be done?

23 December 2016

  • Reindeer in the Taymyr Peninsula<br>Reflection of reindeer in a camp of herders on the left bank of the Yenisei River. A team from Greenpeace Russia visits the Taymyr peninsula to document the construction of the Tanalau terminal by Russian Independent Petroleum Company.

    Arctic oil rush: Nenets' livelihood and habitat at risk from oil spills

  • Children play amid icebergs on the beach in Nuuk, Greenland, 5 June 2016

    Greenland: the country set to cash in on climate change

22 December 2016

  • Melting ice in the Arctic.

    Arctic 360: take a tour without doing damage

  • Murmansk during a 40-day polar night when the sun barely rises

    Murmansk's silver lining: Arctic city banks on ice melt for its renaissance

21 December 2016

  • A large pool of melt water over sea ice in the Beaufort Sea in July.

    Ice-melting temperatures forecast for Arctic midwinter

  • The icesheet in the Ilulissat region of Greenland.

    Why cutting soot emissions is 'fastest solution' to slowing Arctic ice melt

20 December 2016

  • Polar bear outside Churchill, Hudson bay, Canada, november 11 - november 18, 2016. The pictures from Churchill shows the turning point from "summer" plus 2 degrees when I came to Churcill November 11. - Finally the frost came 8 days later with snow and ice. and it was minus 21 degrees. one month too late. The pix without snow and green grass is from november 11-15. The frost came november 17. and the pix from helicopter is from november 18.

    This is the polar bear capital of the world, but the snow has gone

    Canada’s Hudson Bay is as ice-free in November as on a summer’s day and polar bears could be extinct here by mid-century. If the bears are in trouble, so are we

19 December 2016

  • Yupik women prepare freshly caught salmon for curing. Yupik culture is threatened as sea ice melts.

    Alaska indigenous people see culture slipping away as sea ice vanishes

  • Ice in Arctic ocean in Svalbard

    Arctic ice melt 'already affecting weather patterns where you live right now'

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