Arctic winter warming events – winter days where temperatures peak above 14 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 10 degrees Celsius) – are a normal part of the climate over the ice-covered Arctic Ocean. But new research by an international team that includes NASA scientists finds these events are becoming more frequent and lasting longer than they did […]
WHITE HOUSE — Multiple news agencies are reporting President Donald Trump will pull the United States out of the landmark 2015 Paris Climate accord, in what would be a major reversal of Obama era policy that would please his Republican base but infuriate America’s allies. But Trump indicated Wednesday the decision is not final, issuing a […]
WHITE HOUSE — White House officials say President Donald Trump will sign executive orders Tuesday that would effectively dismantle Obama-era environmental regulations, rekindling the highly charged partisan debate about how human activity affects the earth’s climate, and deepening concern decades of work on global climate treaties may be unraveling. “Many agree that would be disastrous,” Dutch […]
For the last 40 years, I’ve roamed the polar regions of our world. I started as a child, growing up in an Inuit community on Baffin Island, Canada, where I learned from the Inuit people not just to survive in our environment — but to thrive in and love the Arctic for all it had […]