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OMG science
fromMail Online
2 days ago

Close Bering Strait to stop Gulf Stream from collapsing, experts say

Closing the Bering Strait could stabilize the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and prevent its collapse due to global warming.
#climate-change
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
3 weeks ago
Environment

The Alaskan permafrost is thawing. Here's why that's so worrying

Thawing permafrost in Alaska is releasing three trillion gallons of water annually, exacerbating climate change and disrupting ocean ecosystems.
fromSnowBrains
1 month ago
Snowboarding

For the First Time in 25 Years, Greenland Ski Resort Remains Closed Amid Warmth and Low Snow Totals - SnowBrains

Greenland's Sisorarfiit Skiliften ski resort failed to open for the first time in 25 years due to record-breaking warm temperatures and insufficient snowfall.
OMG science
fromHigh Country News
3 days ago

The ramifications of record-shattering heat on the West's ecosystems - High Country News

A record-breaking heat wave in March 2023 across the West was caused by climate change, marking the earliest and most widespread event of its kind.
Environment
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
3 weeks ago

The Alaskan permafrost is thawing. Here's why that's so worrying

Thawing permafrost in Alaska is releasing three trillion gallons of water annually, exacerbating climate change and disrupting ocean ecosystems.
fromSnowBrains
1 month ago
Snowboarding

For the First Time in 25 Years, Greenland Ski Resort Remains Closed Amid Warmth and Low Snow Totals - SnowBrains

Books
fromNature
1 week ago

What does the future hold for the thawing Arctic?

The Arctic is experiencing significant changes due to climate crisis and geopolitical tensions, impacting Indigenous sovereignty, economic development, and military infrastructure.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

What counts as the woods? Judge axes Nova Scotia's ban that defied commonsense definitions'

The Nova Scotia supreme court acknowledged the urgency of the wildfire crisis, it warned that if individual rights aren't protected, they can be eroded in a way that eventually affects everyone.
Canada news
Miami food
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Wildfires in Florida after dry winter and spring lead to drought across US

The US faces severe drought and wildfires, particularly in Florida and Georgia, while northern India anticipates extreme heat and heatwave alerts.
Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

How frustration at Cop stalemates has inspired first global talks to ditch fossil fuels

A coalition of 54 countries aims to transition away from fossil fuels at the first conference in Santa Marta, Colombia, from April 24 to 29.
US Elections
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Heatwaves, floods and wildfires pose rising threat to democracy, report finds

Climate crisis increasingly disrupts elections, threatening democracy, particularly in fragile systems across Africa and Asia.
Chicago Bears
fromABC7 Los Angeles
6 days ago

2 Alaska-based soldiers injured in encounter with brown bear during training exercise

Two U.S. Army soldiers were injured by a brown bear during training in Anchorage, Alaska.
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

A new start after 60: my father died when I was a child and I followed him to Antarctica

Amanda Barry uncovered a trove of photographs, letters, and journals in her father's trunk, which set her on a journey to Antarctica, inspired by her father's legacy.
Writing
Snowboarding
fromSnowBrains
2 days ago

Haines, AK, Freeride World Tour Venue Could Become The Site Of A Copper Mine - SnowBrains

Exploratory drilling on the Palmer Project in Alaska may threaten heliskiing terrain and pose environmental risks.
#greenland
World news
fromThe Walrus
1 week ago

I Went to Greenland and Saw a Warning for Canada | The Walrus

Greenland prepares for potential American military aggression amid rising tensions over its resources.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 weeks ago

Not some piece of ice': Greenland hits back at Trump insult

Greenland's Prime Minister emphasizes the nation's pride and calls for NATO unity to uphold international law against U.S. President Trump's remarks.
fromState of the Planet
3 days ago

Indigenous Herders and Peru's Melting Glaciers: A Conversation with Anthropologist Allison Caine

Caine's book explores the ways of life in Chillca, a small community on the flanks of Mount Ausangate in Peru, 14,000 feet above sea level. In this village of 350 people, women are the primary pastoralists, tending to herds of alpacas, llama and sheep.
Books
Environment
fromEarth911
4 days ago

Most Americans Are Worried About the Environment. Is Congress?

More Americans believe the environment is in poor condition and want increased government action to address environmental issues.
Canada news
fromThe Walrus
6 days ago

The Day a Soviet Nuclear Satellite Crashed into the Canadian North | The Walrus

A Soviet satellite, Cosmos 954, crashed in the Northwest Territories, leading to a massive search and recovery effort with minimal success.
fromSnowBrains
5 days ago

Why Juneau, AK, is a Super Underrated Ski Town - SnowBrains

Eaglecrest Ski Area, located just a 15-minute drive from downtown Juneau, spans 640 acres with a 1,620-foot vertical drop, offering a community-focused skiing experience.
Snowboarding
OMG science
fromSFGATE
5 days ago

An extreme marine heat wave simmers off California's coast right now

California is experiencing unprecedented heat waves and ocean temperatures, impacting marine life and breaking historical records.
fromHigh Country News
6 days ago

Wildfires make soil poisonous - High Country News

Researchers have known since at least 2008 that wildfires can create chromium-6, but a new study, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology in November, is the first to report details such as how long it might persist in groundwater.
Environment
#alaska
fromSnowBrains
6 days ago
Snowboarding

I Camped on a Glacier in Alaska with 3 Finnish Dudes and Had a Life-Changing Experience - SnowBrains

fromSnowBrains
6 days ago
Snowboarding

I Camped on a Glacier in Alaska with 3 Finnish Dudes and Had a Life-Changing Experience - SnowBrains

fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Arctic ice loss brings dual heatwaves to Europe and eastern Asia

The study highlights how rapid Arctic warming increases the frequency of extreme weather events, particularly concurrent heatwaves across Europe and eastern Asia.
Europe news
Snowboarding
fromSnowBrains
4 days ago

SnowBrains Forecast: Up to 15 cm for BC/Alberta, Centered on the Alberta Rockies - SnowBrains

Alberta Rockies, particularly Banff Sunshine and Lake Louise, will receive significant snowfall while most of British Columbia remains dry.
Environment
fromMail Online
1 week ago

Earth's glaciers are on the verge of COLLAPSING, ominous study reveals

Glaciers are losing ice at unprecedented rates, with 408 gigatonnes lost in 2025, significantly impacting sea levels and water resources.
LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 month ago

Alaska is fighting to deny a trans woman gender-affirming surgery. 24 states are backing them up. - LGBTQ Nation

Idaho and Indiana support Alaska's challenge against a federal ruling for gender-affirming surgery for a trans prisoner.
SF politics
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

Trump's Plan for "Energy Dominance" in Alaska Is a Pipe Dream

Alaska's Railbelt faces natural gas shortages by 2027, prompting renewed efforts to build an 807-mile liquified natural gas pipeline from the North Slope to Kenai Peninsula, though the $44 billion project lacks committed buyers and faces skepticism from both supporters and critics.
#snowpack
fromWIRED
2 months ago
Environment

Record Low Snow in the West Will Mean Less Water, More Fire, and Political Chaos

Environment
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

On a whole other level': rapid snow melt-off in American west stuns scientists

Record-low snowpack levels in the American West threaten water supply due to a historically warm winter and rapid melt-off.
fromWIRED
2 months ago
Environment

Record Low Snow in the West Will Mean Less Water, More Fire, and Political Chaos

Canada news
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Canada wants to build up its long-neglected Arctic. The hard question is how

Canada is investing in Arctic infrastructure including roads and ports to develop mining potential, strengthen sovereignty, and counter Trump administration pressures through a nation-building initiative.
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

The Blind Spot at the Top of the World

He had flown in from Mar-a-Lago and, he told me, was there to observe. The next day, he watched as Åsa Rennermalm, a Rutgers University professor who studies polar regions, sat onstage with European foreign ministers and spoke out against cuts to U.S. science funding. "A leading US Arctic scientist is on stage absolutely ripping her country to the delight of the audience," Dans wrote on X. "Embarassing." He punctuated his post with an American-flag emoji.
US politics
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

Arctic scientists 'feel pretty uncomfortable' on Greenland

Decades of successful scientific collaboration could be at risk if Europe-US political relations continue to fray over trade and defense issues. For more than 30 years, Arctic nations have worked together across the physical, biological and social sciences to understand one of the world's fastest changing regions. Since the late 1970s, the Arctic has lost around 33,000 square miles of sea ice each year roughly the same area as Czechia.
Science
Travel
fromTravel + Leisure
1 month ago

This U.S. City Offers a 90% Chance of Seeing the Northern Lights

Fairbanks, Alaska offers a 90 percent chance of seeing the northern lights during winter aurora season from August 21 through April 21.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

What Trump's plans for the Arctic mean for the global climate crisis

Federal action begins leasing the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Plain for oil and gas drilling, threatening tundra ecosystems, wildlife, and Indigenous homelands.
fromWIRED
1 month ago

The Data Centers Have Arrived at the Edge of the Arctic Circle

The facility once produced paper, the raw material of the newspaper information age. Now, Borlänge will produce the raw material for AI and the next information age. This declaration by EcoDataCenter's CEO Peter Michelson symbolizes the transformation of industrial sites into critical infrastructure for artificial intelligence development and deployment.
European startups
Design
fromFast Company
2 months ago

Antarctica's newest research station holds a lesson for snowy cities

A wind-deflector-equipped, mono-pitch-roofed Antarctic research building prevents snow accumulation and consolidates station functions to improve safety and efficiency in extreme cold.
Chicago Bears
fromHigh Country News
1 month ago

Can Alaska save caribou by killing bears? - High Country News

Alaska's Mulchatna caribou herd has collapsed from 200,000 animals in the 1990s to 12,000 in 2022, devastating Indigenous subsistence hunting and prompting controversial wildlife management interventions including hunting bans and aerial predator culling.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 months ago

Ancient seafarers helped shape Arctic ecosystems

In the pristine High Arctic sits the Kitsissut island cluster, also known as the Carey Islands, nestled between northwest Greenland and northeast Canada. The surrounding seas are perilous, and traveling there is difficult even with modern boats. But new archaeological evidence suggests ancient humans managed to sail to the islands, too. Early settlers lived on the islands between 4,500 and 2,700 years ago.
Science
OMG science
fromHigh Country News
1 month ago

How federal cuts are reshaping Alaska's communities, research and species management - High Country News

Two USGS research biologists with 50+ years combined experience resigned in April 2025 due to the Trump administration's assault on federal science and hostile conditions at federal agencies.
Snowboarding
fromSnowBrains
1 month ago

The Glaciers Aren't Melting-They're Collapsing - SnowBrains

Alpine glaciers are collapsing structurally and melting rapidly, with Austrian Alps potentially ice-free by 2075 due to accelerating warming and instability.
US politics
fromHigh Country News
2 months ago

Trump's call for deep-sea mining off Alaska raises Indigenous concerns - High Country News

The Trump administration is considering leasing over 113 million offshore acres near Alaska for seabed mining, raising environmental and Indigenous consent concerns.
fromWIRED
2 months ago

The ICE Expansion Won't Happen in the Dark

ICE has designs on every major US city. It plans to not only occupy existing government spaces but share hallways and elevator bays with medical offices and small businesses. It will be down the street from daycares and within walking distance of churches and treatment centers. Its enforcement officers and lawyers will have cubicles a modest drive away from giant warehouses that have been tapped to hold thousands of humans that ICE will detain.
US politics
#anchorage
fromSnowBrains
2 months ago
Snowboarding

Alaska, A Place Known for Massive Snow Totals, Records Snowiest January in Recorded History - SnowBrains

fromSnowBrains
2 months ago
Snowboarding

Alaska, A Place Known for Massive Snow Totals, Records Snowiest January in Recorded History - SnowBrains

OMG science
fromEsquire
2 months ago

This Weird Effect of Climate Change Is Scaring the Hell Out of Me

A 5,000-year-old Psychrobacter strain from cave ice carries multidrug resistance and antimicrobial activity, posing potential AMR risks if released by melting ice.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 months ago

Svalbard's polar bears are showing remarkable resilience to climate change

Polar bears are the poster children of climate changeand for good reason. These giant bears hunt, mate and spend their days hanging out on Arctic sea ice, which is rapidly disappearing as the climate warms. But some polar bears, it seems, are far more resilient than we realized: new research suggests that in one region, the bears are adapting to the declining sea ice.
Environment
Environment
fromThe Walrus
2 months ago

What's a Walrus? A Beast, Actually | The Walrus

Independent journalism confronts threats—climate of misinformation, economic fragility, and algorithm-driven conflict—and commits resources to rigorous fact-checking to preserve factual reporting.
Snowboarding
fromSnowBrains
1 month ago

Melting Alaska Glacier Slowly Reveals Remains of Long-Lost U.S. Servicemen - SnowBrains

Melting Alaskan glaciers have exposed remains of 52 US servicemen lost in a 1952 military plane crash at Mt. Gannett, preserved for decades under thick ice.
Environment
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 months ago

In the Arctic, the major climate threat of black carbon is overshadowed by geopolitical tensions

Arctic shipping soot accelerates sea-ice melt, worsening global warming and weather, while The Independent seeks donations to fund on-the-ground journalism without paywalls.
Environment
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Forests Are Steadily Crawling North, Satellite Imagery Shows

Boreal forests are shifting northward and expanding due to warming, altering carbon sequestration potential and increasing young forest cover.
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