U.S. military has cared about climate change since dawn of Cold War -- for good reason
Documents from the 1950s and 1960s show how the Pentagon poured support into climate and cold-region research to boost the ...
CFR President Michael Froman on Trump, Global ‘Polyamory’ and AI
The Council on Foreign Relations president believes America’s economic and technological strength remains its greatest ...
A doctor was deployed to an Arctic research station during the Cold War. Decades later, he learned its secret purpose
The “city under the ice” revealed a hidden chapter of the Cold War era and gave rise to a new field of scientific inquiry. As ice melt accelerates, its story isn’t over yet.
Travel + Leisure3d
I Camped at the 'Edge of the World' in Greenland—Here's What It Was Like
On a journey through a remote part of Greenland, travel journalist Chloe Berge discovers a landscape at once fragile and ...
Greenland’s fossil fuel ban is up in the air after recent election
Against this backdrop, IA passed a ban on all fossil fuel exploration and extraction when it came to power after the 2021 ...
WAMC Northeast Public Radio4d
What Greenland's elections mean for the island — and the U.S.
This week's vote resulted in a win for pro-independence forces and a rejection of President Trump's rhetoric about annexing ...
Nature4d
Mega-storm dumps 11 billion tonnes of snow ― and builds up a melting ice sheet
A well-timed atmospheric river dropped enough snow on Greenland for its ice sheet to lose 8% less mass than expected.
The New Republic4dOpinion
DOGE Is Pressuring Social Security to Make Another Massive Cut
At the SSA, Musk and DOGE have alleged that “tens of millions” of dead people are receiving Social Security payments, but ...
The New Republic4dOpinion
Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
Citibank revealed in a court filing Wednesday that it was told to freeze the groups’ bank accounts at the FBI’s request. The ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists5d
‘The riskometer has been going up all the time’: Tim Lenton on tipping points
Lenton, the founding director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, was the lead author of the 2008 ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists5d
‘Notoriously difficult to investigate and even more difficult to predict’: Thomas Stocker on tipping points
Thomas Stocker, a professor of Climate and Environmental Physics at the University of Bern, was the lead author of a 2024 ...
The Arctic is in trouble. The consequences will be felt around the world
Arctic temperatures spiked 36 degrees Fahrenheit, or 20 Celsius, above normal. By the end of the month, sea ice was at its ...