Two of the nearly 100 people on a ship stuck in an ice floe for a year explain what it’s like to live in polar darkness while studying how the Arctic’s climate is changing.
Tag: Arctic Regions
Macron Fires Ambassador Who Attacked His Pension Plan
Ségolène Royal, the defeated Socialist candidate in France’s 2007 election, was President Emmanuel Macron’s emissary to the North and South Poles and a public critic of his pensions overhaul.
Norwegian Spy Jailed by Russia Is Free. He’s Angry, Too, but Not at Moscow.
Frode Berg, a trusting pensioner, willingly worked for Norwegian intelligence. Then, he says, they hung him out to dry.
Climate Change Is Ravaging the Arctic, Report Finds
It was another very warm year in the region, leading to low winter sea ice and growing concerns over sea level rise.
Stuck in Arctic Ice, Dodging Polar Bears. All for Science.
An international research team is now adrift about 300 miles from the North Pole. It’s for a yearlong expedition to study the Arctic’s changing climate.
Still the Undisputed Champs of Mammalian Migrations
Scientists measured distances covered to compile a Top 5 list of ultramarathon runners of land mammals.
On ‘Island’ in Russian Arctic, Arrival of Fast Internet Shakes Political Calm
Residents of Norilsk long felt isolated from their country’s turbulence. Then a mining company strung a fiber-optic cable across 600 miles of tundra.
Drawn From Poverty: Art Was Supposed to Save Canada’s Inuit. It Hasn’t.
Indigenous work is all the rage in the Canadian art world. But life in the North is as much a struggle as ever.
Russian Land of Permafrost and Mammoths Is Thawing
Global warming is shrinking the permanently frozen ground across Siberia, disrupting everyday life in one of the coldest inhabited places on earth.
200 Reindeer Starved to Death. Experts Call It a Sign of Climate Change.
Scientists surveying reindeer populations in Norway said the deaths occurred on iced pastures in the Arctic, a result of global warming’s effect on a vulnerable ecosystem.