Arctic & Antarctica

The Greenland government has issued a “strong warning” after a U.S. oil company with ties to Donald Trump moved drilling equipment into position for a project that hasn’t received official approval, in what is being interpreted as a possible new front in Trump’s attempts to annex the autonomous and self-governing...

Major Nordic financiers and some of Europe’s bigger political heavyweights are among the 127 investors, businesses, scientists, trade unions, think tanks, and non-governmental organizations cautioning the European Commission against opening the door to new fossil fuel extraction in the Arctic.

The diesel and hydroelectric generators built for industry in Canada's North are expensive and aging, write Lynne Couves and Rosa Brown in Policy Options. Repair and improvement can’t be the sole burden of communities.

From the eight senators to their staff and military liaison officers, the group will be entirely women as they pay diplomatic visits to government officials in four Arctic nations, including Canada.

A federal auction undid a hard-won agreement to protect Alaska's North Slope. The Iñupiat community that fought for it is still waiting to be heard.

As the Thwaites glacier loses its grip on Antarctica’s western edge, a small group of scientists is proposing radical interventions like drilling heat-exchanging devices into the ice and creating artificial “speed bumps” on its bed to slow its collapse. Other glaciologists say the schemes are infeasible and a dangerous distraction...

The Earth has reached a record “energy imbalance”, with the atmosphere taking on far more heat than it can release and ocean warming reaching new heights, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned last week, in a State of the Global Climate report that showed greenhouse gas emissions continuing to rise...

Representatives from all three Canadian territories say the need to improve their aging electricity grids has reached a critical level requiring billions of dollars from the federal government to update, and in some cases, keep the lights on.

The Trump administration received zero bids from industry in a recent attempt to auction off oil and gas leases in Cook Inlet, Alaska, where analysts say new drilling prospects are unappealing.

Research led by Finnish climate scientists has identified “a new era of bioclimatic extremes in the terrestrial Arctic,” while Canadian scientists intensify warnings that western Canada’s glaciers are rapidly vanishing.

Climate change is opening up previously inaccessible land and sea, boosting global interest in Greenland.

Beijing is using unease over Trump’s expansionism to present itself as a rules-abiding climate partner in the North, an approach Ottawa has partly welcomed on climate while remaining wary of China’s role in the region.

A shared dream has brought solar-powered canoes to an Indigenous communities along the Ecuador-Peru border and changed the notion of “development” and who does it, writes Seeing Like a Local publisher Rosemary Cairns.

When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away at the continent's rapidly degrading ice shelves.

The inclusion of Ksi Lisims LNG and the North Coast Transmission Line brings British Columbia's total to four projects on the roster that Carney says will help diversify Canada’s economy beyond the United States—though some First Nations have fought the LNG project in court.