Arctic

The anniversary of the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory spotlights community involvement in science.

In Utqiaġvik, where the coast is eroding at some of the fastest rates in the nation, storms, flooding and thawing permafrost damage houses, roads and cultural sites.

A study of subsistence foods at St. Lawrence Island shows how contaminants carried to the far north by atmospheric and ocean currents persist for years, burdening the region’s Indigenous people.

Warmer winters and thicker layers of insulating snow are spurring creation of more taliks, sections of ground that doesn’t freeze even in winter.

Norway has joined the rest of Europe in isolating Russia. But as a country bordering Russia, it’s feeling the effects more immediately than others — in everything from climate action and nuclear waste control to cross-border trade.

Finland’s ambassador said that for the first time in the country’s history, the majority of its citizens support membership in NATO.

When people pass away in Utqiaġvik, the family reaches out to a team of volunteer gravediggers, and they take time off from their jobs, bring their tools and get to work, asking for nothing in return.

Almost 25 years ago to the day, the Polar Star’s sister ship set the previous record.

The United States and six other member nations of the Arctic Council are boycotting talks in Russia to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

U.S. and Russian scientists are using less invasive technology to get a more complete survey of the walrus population in the Bering Strait region.