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              Arctic

              • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
                News in-depthGeopolitics
                Why Donald Trump wants Greenland

                The Arctic island has long been vital to US security and its importance is only increasing

                The Pituffik Space Base; Donald Trump and a map showing Greenland
              • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
                Global InsightRichard Milne
                Trump’s icebreaker leaves Greenland and Denmark adrift

                US president-elect’s gambit in the Arctic has unnerved Nuuk and left Copenhagen struggling to respond

                A plane with a Trump logo at the airport in Nuuk, Greenland
              • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
                Greenland
                Greenland ‘not for sale’, says Danish PM after Trump call for US to buy it

                US president-elect’s renewed interest in Arctic island poses challenge for Denmark’s government

                Icebergs near Ilulissat, Greenland
              • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
                Climate change
                First ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean may come before 2030, study shows

                Latest findings bring forward possible date and follow dramatic sea ice loss around north pole recorded since 1980s

                Arctic sea ice
              • Friday, 6 December, 2024
                Canada
                Canada bolsters Arctic security to counter Russia-China threat

                An ambassador for the region and Indigenous surveillance teams will supplement military hardware

                An abandoned coast guard landing craft sits stranded in the snow off the Canadian Arctic settlement of Resolute Bay, Nunavut
              • Monday, 28 October, 2024
                Climate change
                Russia ‘withholding’ vital climate data in the Arctic, warns Nato

                Official says accurate modelling of global warming is being hit

                A Russian serviceman in white winter camouflage stands guard near a military truck on the snowy terrain of Alexandra Land. The scene is set against a backdrop of snow-covered hills and dark rocky outcrops.
              • Friday, 11 October, 2024
                Travel
                Can a cruise ship be sustainable?

                Meet the captain hoping to pioneer a more environmentally friendly way to see the polar regions — using rigid sails and solar power

                A computer image of a ship with an icy landscape behind it. The ship has five large rigid sail-like structures
              • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
                Russia
                Putin’s flagship Arctic gas project struggles to lure customers

                US sanctions appear to be deterring buyers, satellite images and ship-tracking data suggest

                The Saam floating storage unit in the Arctic waters off northern Russia has been taking LNG shipments from a key gas field
              • Monday, 1 July, 2024
                Svalbard
                Norway blocks sale of last private property on Arctic archipelago

                Oslo cites national security concerns amid increased Russian and Chinese interest in Svalbard and ‘high north’

                The town of Longyearbyen in Svalbard
              • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
                Travel
                On an Arctic archipelago, the perfect restorative retreat

                After a family health scare, Sophy Roberts escapes to Holmen Lofoten, where fishermen’s cabins have been converted into a cosy, food-focused hideaway

                A hotel room’s wide windows look out across the sea to jagged snowy mountains
              • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
                Emily Caruso
                View from the deck: rising sea levels up close

                An expedition yacht skipper witnesses the effects of climate change on communities in the Pacific and Arctic

                Boat sailing on the Arctic with icebergs in the background
              • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
                Kristina Spohr
                Russia and China are opening a new anti-western front in the Arctic

                Moscow has long asserted pre-eminence in the region, while Beijing has commercial and military ambitions of its own there

                The Russian “50 Years of Victory” nuclear-powered icebreaker makes its way in the Arctic Ocean towards the North Pole
              • Tuesday, 24 October, 2023
                Travel
                In Svalbard, a sailing adventure with a mission

                The Ocean Warrior project offers guests the chance to see whales, walruses and remote corners of the far north — as well as helping with climate research

              • Friday, 29 September, 2023
                Travel
                Canada’s northernmost adventure camp offers a taste of the high Arctic

                A family of explorers have created a unique retreat overlooking the Northwest Passage

              • Friday, 15 September, 2023
                Oil
                Russia routes thin-hulled oil tankers through Arctic for first time

                Use of unreinforced vessels raises risks of environmental disaster as Moscow diverts sanctions-hit exports

                A tanker at the Zvezda shipyard in far-eastern Russia
              • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
                Greenland
                Cruise ship may be stranded in Arctic for days after running aground

                Vessel stuck off remote area of Greenland with more than 200 people on board

                A view from the air of the blue and white coloured Ocean Explorer
              • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
                Oil & Gas industry
                Biden administration to restrict Alaska oil and gas drilling

                Move comes six months after White House approved controversial Willow project

                A drilling rig at ConocoPhillips’ Willow oil project on Alaska’s North Slope
              • Saturday, 24 June, 2023
                Antarctica
                Climate graphic of the week: record low Antarctic sea ice levels worry scientists

                Separate data suggests Arctic sea ice could disappear during September by the next decade

                Photo of the front of the Sheldon glacier in Antarctica with map of sea ice extent overlaid on top
              • Monday, 5 June, 2023
                News in-depth
                Arctic chill: western nations fear China and Russia will exploit regional tensions

                Arctic Council severed ties with Moscow after it invaded Ukraine, increasing risk of a polar region ‘with no rules’

                A helicopter lands on the deck of a Royal Navy warship off the coast of Norway
              • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
                Anna Berkeley
                Ask a Stylist: how to dress for transitional weather

                Layering is about selecting the right weights and styles and understanding your build

              • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
                Oil & Gas industry
                White House draws fire from climate groups over Alaska oil project

                ConocoPhillips’ Willow venture receives partial recommendation by federal land managers

                ConocoPhillips sign
              • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
                Business InsightRichard Milne
                Reasons for scepticism over Swedish rare earths find

                There are many questions over the project’s prospects and its potential to spur the green transition in Europe

                excavation works are pictured Kiruna, Sweden
              • Wednesday, 7 December, 2022
                Scientific research
                World’s oldest DNA reveals thriving Arctic ecosystem 2mn years ago

                Scientists decode DNA preserved in Ice Age sediments in far north of Greenland

                Eske Willerslev
              • Tuesday, 23 August, 2022
                The Big Read
                Methane hunters: what explains the surge in the potent greenhouse gas?

                Levels of the gas are growing at a record rate and natural sources like wetlands are the cause, but scientists don’t know how to curb it

                People dressed in snowsuits kneel to look at methane bubbles frozen in the ice in a lake in China
              • Friday, 12 August, 2022
                Arctic warming four times faster than rest of the planet, study says

                Climate change effect on ‘earth’s refrigerator’ will have far reaching consequences, scientists say

                Aerial view shows pancake ice and melt as captured on an airborne mission with University of Texas scientists to measure melting Arctic sea ice
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