Global markets have gone haywire after Donald Trump made new demands in the Iran war.
Canada’s defence agreement with South Korea signals the two countries’ “middle-power answer” to increasing cooperation between Beijing and Moscow in the Arctic region and Washington’s pressure on its allies for defence burden sharing, analysts said. The agreement, signed on February 25 as part of a 2+2 foreign and defence ministerial meeting, followed the Security and Defence Cooperation Partnership (SDCP) established by the two countries in October. According to a joint statement issued after...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 131, Issue 3, March 2026.
The Carbon Removers are the embodiment of the old adage of necessity being the mother of invention as they develop new ways to capture and store carbon
A West Coast carbon market alliance would test the limits of state climate power.
Mission staff with teams competing in the Arctic Winter Games in Whitehorse this month say the teams are readying uniforms, arranging travel and preparing athletes for events while eagerly anticipating the competition, the camaraderie and the cultural exchange.
A person taking part in a military training exercise in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, has been injured after an apparent parachuting mishap and a "hard landing" on the sea ice.
The ice along Antarctica’s ‘grounding lines’ has been largely stable over the past 30 years – but ice has retreated by more than 40 km in some areas, a new study based on satellite data finds.
Antarctica lost an area of ice more than eight times larger than Greater London over the last 30 years, a study has revealed.
The relative lack of snow and dry conditions means Nunavut’s Arctic Winter Games ski team has only trained outdoors a couple of times this winter. They even travelled to Quebec to get some extra training in.
The 2026 Arctic Winter Games is just around the corner and members of Team Yukon are ready to hit the ice, field, and slopes to compete against athletes from around the globe. Two members of Team Yukon who are representing Dawson City share how they're feeling with the games a little over a week away.
In a rollercoaster series of events, a foreign student at Columbia University was arrested by ICE agents but then quickly released after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani raised concerns with President Donald Trump.
The United Nations announced Thursday the approval of the first carbon credits under a global market aimed at reducing emissions, a mechanism that has faced scrutiny over greenwashing concerns.
From ice ages to asteroid strikes, an epic book shows how important it has been for humans to look outwards. Alex Wilkins surveys a climate historian's cosmic sweep
Scientists studying satellite images of Antarctica have stumbled upon a discovery that sheds new light on emperor penguins – and reveals a troubling threat to their survival. The post Accidental discovery reveals grim future for emperor penguins appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Scientists studying satellite images of Antarctica have stumbled upon a discovery that sheds new light on emperor penguins – and reveals a troubling threat to their survival. Researchers from British … The post Accidental discovery reveals grim future for emperor penguins appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Statistical analysis reveals ancient bone carvings hold complex information rivaling early Mesopotamian scripts.
The Congo Basin’s peatlands have stored carbon for millennia, but new research suggests much of it is now escaping.
A sweeping agreement to market carbon credits from 14 forest reserves could generate more than $1.5 billion but critics warn the legal framework remains unfinished
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 4, 28 February 2026.
Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee has deleted a post seemingly comparing ICE agents to members of Mexican cartels.
Will Stancil, a longtime critic of Trump and the Republican party, made a massive error on the roads as he stalked ICE agents in Minnesota, according to a journalist that was with him.
Hong Kong’s Ocean Park has temporarily closed its Arctic Fox Den after the enclosure’s last two remaining animals, “Siu Go” and “Trinity”, died of old age. The theme park announced on Saturday that Siu Go and Trinity had both died at the age of 11. It did not specify when the deaths occurred. “The park’s animal care and veterinary team closely monitored the health of each arctic fox throughout their later years and provided them with meticulous care,” a spokesman said. “However, they ultimately...
A group of European scientists have recently proposed an idea to sink mature trees from the vast boreal forest in Canada, Alaska and Russia into the deep Arctic ocean, to store the carbon for centuries to come.
Energy Environ. Sci. , 2026, Accepted Manuscript DOI : 10.1039/D5EE05591A, Paper Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. Zipeng Liu, T Terlouw, Patrick Frey, Christian Bauer, Russell McKenna Low-carbon fuels (LCFs) such as green hydrogen, synthetic hydrocarbons, and biofuels are critical for decarbonizing sectors that are difficult to electrify. In this study, we present a globally harmonized techno-economic... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry
Antarctica's vast ice sheets and fragile ecosystems are already changing at an alarming rate - and now scientists have revealed just how bad it could get.
Researchers rewound the clock 70 million years to solve the mystery of the Antarctic gravity hole.
LONGYEARBYEN, Svalbard - There are no outward signs of jitters, at least not yet: people in Svalbard are going about their daily lives as normal despite speculation that this Norwegian archipelago could be the next Arctic territory coveted by the United States or Russia.
“Most of the glaciers that I used to ski on are pretty much gone,” Lindsey Vonn said.
Learn how glacier fronts in Greenland concentrate polar cod and create critical feeding grounds for ringed seals.
The mysterious depths of the Antarctic Ocean are home to only a handful of sea creatures.
Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures after being arrested by ICE agents in January Minnesota and federal authorities are investigating the alleged beating of a Mexican citizen by immigration officers last month, seeking to identify what caused the eight skull fractures that landed the man in the intensive care unit of a Minneapolis hospital. Investigators from the St Paul police department and FBI last week canvassed the shopping center parking lot where Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents wrested him from a vehicle, threw him to the ground and repeatedly struck him in the head with a steel baton. Continue reading...
An ungainly barrel of a shark cruising languidly over a barren seabed far too deep for the sun’s rays to illuminate was an unexpected sight. Many experts had thought sharks did not exist in the frigid waters of Antarctica before this sleeper shark lumbered warily and briefly into the spotlight of a video camera, researcher Alan Jamieson said this week. The shark, filmed in January 2025, was a substantial specimen with an estimated length of between three and four metres (10 and 13 feet). “We...
glaciers Vonn, Shiffrin and Brignone among the Olympic skiers voicing concern over receding glaciers
The discovery of an antibiotic-resistant microbe locked in Romanian cave ice highlights both the risks of a warming world and an unexpected source of future medicines.
Antarctica is home to many mysteries, but one of the strangest is an enormous 'gravity hole' deep beneath the ice. Now, scientists know why it is there.
Snowy owls that once glided across wide open spaces of the Arctic tundra are seeing their homes shrink under thickening shrubs. They face a gauntlet of other threats, all of which decimate their numbers. Yet the raptor’s path to legal protection moves at a sluggish pace.
After days of cloud and rain, the weekend starts sunny and cold with further snow and ice warnings as Simon King expalains
Three athletes in the 2026 Yukon Arctic Ultra share their determination, and quest to cross the finish line no matter what place they got, during the annual extreme outdoor expedition.
Indigenous Americans weathered the Ice Age with style and utility, it seems.
Section of A66 closed and warning of travel disruption amid freezing temperatures in Scotland and northern England A major road across the Pennines has been closed as an Arctic blast brought snow, ice and freezing temperatures to Scotland and northern England. The Met Office said widespread travel disruption was likely on Friday as it issued two yellow warnings that will remain in place until noon. Freezing temperatures have led to a four-day health alert for cold weather. Continue reading...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 131, Issue 2, February 2026.
This weekend should see the weather turn markedly colder, as Helen Willetts explains.
QU Dongyu is Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
As preparations for the fifth International Polar Year kick off, organizers grapple with U.S. climate skepticism and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Canada's foreign minister is urging NATO to make its newly launched Arctic Sentry initiative a permanent part of the alliance's operations. Anita Anand argues the High North can no longer be treated as a secondary theatre.
The sewn hide, cordage and needles show how Indigenous Americans used complex technology to survive the freezing temperatures at the end of the last ice age and as a means of social expression.
It would be the first time a country attaches carbon reduction numbers to technologies that can pull climate pollution from the sky and seas.
Citizen surveillance is becoming increasingly normalised, even while similar technology is being deployed by ICE agents in the US and the IDF in Gaza Say cheese! A decision last week greenlighting Bunnings’ use of facial recognition technology to routinely monitor customers provides a not-so-happy snap of how ill-prepared Australia is for the coming AI storm. On its face, the administrative review tribunal decision to overrule the privacy commissioner’s finding that Bunnings’ use of intrusive, high-impact AI was unlawful is a technical call. But the impact will be material. Continue reading...
Restaurants face one-star reviews and less business in an already precarious industry. Some restaurateurs fear speaking out as immigrants themselves Amid calls for a national shutdown on 30 January, Anton Kinloch displayed a sign on the sidewalk outside Lone Wolf, his craft cocktail bar and restaurant in Kingston, New York . In large block letters he wrote: “WE LOVE ICE IN DRINKS. WE DON’T LOVE ICE IN REAL LIFE. SOLIDARITY ALWAYS.” Along with his wife and business partner, Lisa Dy, he had made the difficult decision to stay open, electing instead to donate a portion of the night’s proceeds to a local immigrant advocacy group. With frigid temperatures and inclement weather stymying business in the region this winter, he simply could not afford the lost revenue. But he refused to stay silent...
The environment is changing rapidly around the melting Thwaites Glacier. Seals can collect data in waters that ships could never reach.
SISIMIUT (DENMARK) - Standing in his boat with binoculars in hand, hunter Malik Kleist scans the horizon for seals. But this February, the sea ice in southwestern Greenland has yet to freeze, threatening traditional livelihoods like his.
A mission to drill into the most unstable and least accessible part of Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier has ended in disaster after key instruments became stuck in the ice.
Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out? The global economy must be radically transformed to stop it rewarding pollution and waste, UN secretary general António Guterres has warned. Speaking to the Guardian after the UN hosted a meeting of leading global economists, Guterres said humanity’s future required the urgent overhaul of the world’s “existing accounting systems” he said were driving the planet to the brink of disaster. Continue reading...
The European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is sending ripples of concern throughout global trade, unsettling exporters of certain products while raising broader questions about its long‑term impact on industries not yet covered by the measure.
New York City experienced temperatures colder than parts of Antarctica on Sunday, with wind chills reaching 14 degrees below zero. This extreme cold, driven by Arctic air, prompted rare warnings for millions. The prolonged deep freeze marks the most extreme in at least a decade for many Northeast locations.
There are growing concerns the treaty that has protected the last great wilderness for nearly 70 years may not hold as the old rules-based world order disintegrates along with the sea ice.
Hundreds of visitors are pouring into Whitehorse this week for the Arctic Winter Games, leaving few hotel rooms, vacation rentals and rental cars available — and forcing some families to come up with creative solutions. For Team Alaska parent Rachel Arvelo, that meant turning to a moving truck when every car rental company in town told her they were already booked solid.
New research by MIT geophysicists could assist efforts to remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it underground.
The phenomenon isn't a new one, but scientists have only recently come up with a convincing explanation for why it happens.
With 20 different sports and hundreds of youth athletes competing across multiple venues, the Arctic Winter Games needs a huge number of volunteers to be successful. But efforts to secure enough volunteers have hit some bumps in the road, according to the host society, including delays securing criminal record checks and some confusion over leave for some government employees.
"Nutritional stress does play a role. It's just that it doesn't appear to be the role that we thought it was, just driving bears en masse desperately into communities," said Douglas Clark, a professor in the University of Saskatchewan’s School of Environment and Sustainability.
Previously unreported records also offer new details about what was cut from ICE’s basic training program. Concerns about the quality of ICE agents’ training have mounted for months.
Some Arctic security analysts say one thing that's not talked about enough when it comes to Canada's sovereignty in the North: intelligence.
Learn how 30 years of satellite radar data mapped Antarctica’s grounding lines and revealed more than 10 Los Angeles–sized areas of grounded ice loss in vulnerable regions.
A new study concludes that warm ocean water was the primary driver of major West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat since the end of the last ice age 18,000 years ago. The post Warm ocean water, not air temperature, drove massive Antarctic ice retreat after the last ice age appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
More than 2,000 athletes from around the circumpolar North are expected to arrive in Whitehorse in the coming days for the 2026 Arctic Winter Games, which officially kicks off on Sunday evening.
Honor teases its ultra-thin Silicon-Carbon Blade Battery, said to offer more power than the 6,600mAh pack in the upcoming Magic V6. The post Honor teases its next-gen silicon-carbon battery that’s as thin as a playing card appeared first on Digital Trends.
Martin Kamen and Samuel Ruben's discovery of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in 1940 helped usher in a new era of dating artifacts from past civilizations.
Curtis Wright, 39, who lives in Houston, Texas, was grabbed by ICE agents and thrown into the South Texas Processing Center last November.
American officials are drafting a diplomatic cable that warns dozens of countries against adopting a climate fee on the shipping industry.
A bunker hidden in the Arctic might sound like somewhere a Bond villain would hide out, but the real-life 'Doomsday Vault' actually serves a very serious purpose.
The dramatic images reveal how shrinking sea ice is forcing the birds into smaller, increasingly crowded groups.
Satellite-based radar images show where a powerful earthquake in the Yukon, Canada, sent rock, snow, and ice spilling across the frozen landscapes of the St. Elias Mountains.
New research sheds light on what drives reddish water to emerge from underground to pour onto the Taylor Glacier.
Delegates from across the circumpolar world are in Whitehorse for Arctic summit as Canadian Forces prep for an epic trip from Herschel Island to Churchill, Man.
New research finds that Arctic peatlands are expanding as the far north undergoes rapid changes. It's an ominous sign.
[World Bank] Washington -- Six countries of the Congo Basin--Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Republic of Congo--are working to take bold steps to unlock results-based payments and climate finance. The newly launched Strategic Roadmaps for Carbon Market and Climate Finance in the Forest Sector for the Congo Basin Countries developed with support from the World Bank, serve as blueprints to transform the region's vast forest wealth into a powerful engine for
Team Nunavut will sport bright yellow and blue uniforms at the upcoming Arctic Winter Games. The team's pin shows people competing in the Dene Games pole-push event.
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he was sending a hospital boat to Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory that he has long coveted and threatened to seize by force. Trump’s rhetoric has ratcheted up tensions between the United States and Denmark, while putting the global spotlight on the Arctic as he insists mineral-rich Greenland is vital for US and Nato security against Russia and China. He said the boat would treat many “sick” people in Greenland, without providing any details on...
Judges in Manhattan and New Jersey ordered the feds to release Mamadou Ndoye, Sergigne Diop and Abdou Tall after finding that ICE agents made illegal arrests.
A shark found in the Antarctic proves that predators are moving into new territory.
Ocean Visions is funding six research projects that will examine ways to cool the region or preserve sea ice.
The policies could see ICE agents restricted, monitored and prosecuted for crimes.
But stay tuned: We’ve still got more to share about this Antarctic expedition, and the next ones scientists are already planning.
The Amazon's biggest trees store disproportionately more carbon than smaller trees do, new study finds. But in the Peruvian Amazon, large trees are currently prioritized for harvest.
SANTIAGO (CHILE) - Scientists are sounding the alarm over the spread of bird flu across Antarctica, with a leading Chilean researcher telling AFP Tuesday of an observed strain "capable of killing 100 percent" of infected fauna.
The government says carbon markets could generate investment to support conservation, job creation and sustainable development.
The April 2024 strain was first found in five dead skuas in Antarctica.
Learn how Antarctica’s gravity hole formed inside Earth and grew stronger as its ice sheets took hold.
Earth’s river deltas, home to about 5% of the global population and some of the world’s major cities, are experiencing subsidence, which exacerbates the risks from sea-level rise. The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has captured a decade's worth of data showing land sinking faster than previously thought.
Warmer winters can result in thinner ice, so knowing safety rules is essential. The post Lake lovers beware: Winter ice isn’t always what it used to be appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
MUNICH (GERMANY) - Britain will deploy its aircraft carrier group to the North Atlantic this year in a "powerful show of force" against Russian threats in the Arctic, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Saturday.
The United Arab Emirates is rapidly eclipsing Hong Kong and emerging as a credible rival to Singapore as Asia’s most dynamic trading hub, thanks to an ambitious post-pandemic campaign of economic diplomacy. Defying global headwinds from war and instability across its own region, the UAE’s non-oil trade almost doubled between 2021 and 2025 to reach 3.8 trillion dirhams (US$1.03 trillion), Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum announced on January 31. That surge – powered by an aggressive...
While many of the world's glaciers are in rapid retreat, scientists have been baffled to discover that some are behaving very differently.
The city of St. Paul, Minn., which has been occupied by thousands of ICE agents from Operation Metro Surge, is seeking to enact a ban on masks worn by law enforcement officers.
The glacier in southeastern Svalbard pulses with the changing seasons, speeding up and slowing its flow toward the sea.
Scientists have now proposed a wacky plan to prevent the so-called 'Doomsday Glacier' from crumbling.
The Arctic Sentry mission will unite all Nato operations under one command.
Nato said on Wednesday that it had launched a mission to strengthen its presence in the Arctic, part of an effort to defuse severe tensions within the alliance prompted by US President Donald Trump’s push for the US to acquire Greenland. The new mission, Arctic Sentry, will coordinate an increasing military presence of Nato allies in the region, including exercises such as Denmark’s Arctic Endurance on Greenland, the alliance’s military headquarters said in a statement. Nato did not quantify...
As Russia displays military might in the Arctic Circle, the Western alliance is preparing a mission to increase its presence in that area.
Glaciers, snow and ice covered in the soot emitted by ships have less ability to reflect the sun.
Last month’s ice event in Music City left more than 230,000 people without power for days, and had a long-lasting effect on local clubs and players
Elon Musk mistakenly claimed a Starlink-streamed video was from Antarctica, but X's community notes revealed it was actually filmed in Patagonia, South America. The footage, shared by a user, showed an ice cave. This incident follows Musk's recent $1.25 trillion merger of SpaceX and his AI startup, xAI.
On 20 March 2026, the glaciologist will take over as scientific director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). To date, he has been active as the director of the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.
Archeologists have found the remains of a cluster of tents with hearths on a remote High Arctic island that date back more than 4,000 years. They offer surprising new insights about the first people who lived near what is now the Canada-Greenland border.
Activists handed out “ICE OUT” towels to fans walking towards Levi’s Stadium ahead of the Super Bowl on Sunday (February 8), drawing mixed reactions from attendees as immigration enforcement again became a flashpoint at a major U.S. sporting event. David Tobis, an 81‑year‑old sociologist from Oakland, said "ICE is a military force like the storm troopers in Nazi Germany" -...
A new study confirms the H5N1 virus was responsible for at least 46 skua deaths on the Antarctic peninsula in 2024.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- "Carbon neutral by 2030" has become a central goal in Kenya's corporate sustainability efforts, featuring prominently in investor briefings, annual reports, and media statements as companies respond to growing decarbonisation pressures and global climate expectations.
The faint outline of a hand in a cave in Indonesia’s Sulawesi has been recognised as the world’s oldest known rock art, shattering a long-held scientific theory that human artistic expression first flourished in Ice Age Europe. Dating back at least 67,800 years, the faded stencil was found hiding beneath a more recent chicken sketch in Metanduno cave on Muna Island. Researchers say the finding, which was published in the scientific journal Nature on January 21, proves that ancient humans in...
Brad Thor's "Cold Zero" imagines a world in which global powers converge on the Arctic in a desperate race for military advantage.