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The Arctic is a region at the northernmost pole of the Earth. It encompasses the Arctic Ocean and parts of surrounding regions including Alaska, Canada, Finland, and Greenland. The Arctic is almost entirely covered by ice and water.
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JUL 09, 2017Earth & The Environment
We are always hearing about how the ocean’s health is in peril. However, what does that really mean? Are all of th ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 16, 2017Earth & The Environment
Forty scientists from five Canadian universities who had embarked on the icebreaker and Arctic research vessel CCGS Amun ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 26, 2017Videos
Can you imagine a world without ice? Even if you live in Florida with the sole intention of escaping icy winters, ice do ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 25, 2017Videos
Climate-change has driving a lot of melting in the Arctic, which is a cause for concern for many reasons. Because of tha ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 21, 2017Earth & The Environment
Ocean temperatures are rising at alarming levels in the Gulf of Maine, which sits just north of Rhode Island. Studies fr ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 10, 2017Videos
More than any other time in history, the issue of climate change is at the forefront of science and politics. The Trump ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAY 06, 2017Earth & The Environment
Climate change is frightening on a lot of levels. Extreme weather, rising seas, displacement, extinction of species &nda ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 04, 2017Earth & The Environment
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday directing the Interior Department, specifically Secretary Rya ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 21, 2017Earth & The Environment
A mammoth iceberg has taken residence off Ferryland, a small town on Newfoundland’s east coast, and its presence h ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 17, 2017Earth & The Environment
A study released from University of Alaska oceanographer, Igor Polyakov, has recently been published in Science with con ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 05, 2017Videos
Ever heard of a bird hibernating in a lake? Probably not, because birds don't actually do that. Nevertheless, hibernatio ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanFEB 22, 2017Earth & The Environment
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has reported that sea ice around Antarctica reached its lowest month ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJAN 14, 2017Plants & Animals
In a Conservation Management Plan released by the United States Fish and Wildlife service this week, climate change was ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 07, 2017Plants & Animals
A Russian fisherman’s photographs have gone viral these last few weeks as he shared numerous photographs of what a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 29, 2016Plants & Animals
Reindeer, an iconic mammal of the Winter season and well-known for pulling Santa’s sleigh for Christmas, are repor ...Written By: Anthony BouchardDEC 17, 2016Microbiology
Sawdust is thought of as a byproduct that isn't useful for much, but scientists at the Department of Energy's PNNL turne ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 14, 2016Earth & The Environment
There are a number of problems with the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the Earth that are occurring because of climate ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 23, 2016Plants & Animals
Russia’s Yamal Peninsula in northwestern Siberia, is perhaps the most productive reindeer-herding region in the wo ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanNOV 21, 2016Earth & The Environment
Last Friday the Obama administration put a block on drilling in the Arctic and along the West Coast through 2022. The pr ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanSEP 28, 2016Videos
Each year, scientists, researchers and pilots from NASA complete a survey of ice in Greenland and sea ice in the Arctic ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 27, 2016Plants & Animals
If you’re a polar bear in the Arctic, then life isn’t getting any easier for you. Unfortunately, climate cha ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 26, 2016Earth & The Environment
This article has been republished from Earth Island. It may have been edited for publication purposes. A visit with Tumu ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanSEP 22, 2016Microbiology
As Siberia experiences warming temperatures and its ice melts, things are starting to emerge from what was once permafro ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 09, 2016Chemistry & Physics
This week, the Daldykan River in northern Russia ran red. Social media posts called it the “River of Blood” ...Written By: Jennifer Ellis
JUL 09, 2017
Earth & The Environment
We are always hearing about how the ocean’s health is in peril. However, what does that really mean? Are all of th
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 16, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Forty scientists from five Canadian universities who had embarked on the icebreaker and Arctic research vessel CCGS Amun
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 26, 2017
Videos
Can you imagine a world without ice? Even if you live in Florida with the sole intention of escaping icy winters, ice do
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 25, 2017
Videos
Climate-change has driving a lot of melting in the Arctic, which is a cause for concern for many reasons. Because of tha
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 21, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Ocean temperatures are rising at alarming levels in the Gulf of Maine, which sits just north of Rhode Island. Studies fr
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 10, 2017
Videos
More than any other time in history, the issue of climate change is at the forefront of science and politics. The Trump
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 06, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Climate change is frightening on a lot of levels. Extreme weather, rising seas, displacement, extinction of species &nda
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 04, 2017
Earth & The Environment
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday directing the Interior Department, specifically Secretary Rya
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 21, 2017
Earth & The Environment
A mammoth iceberg has taken residence off Ferryland, a small town on Newfoundland’s east coast, and its presence h
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 17, 2017
Earth & The Environment
A study released from University of Alaska oceanographer, Igor Polyakov, has recently been published in Science with con
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 05, 2017
Videos
Ever heard of a bird hibernating in a lake? Probably not, because birds don't actually do that. Nevertheless, hibernatio
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
FEB 22, 2017
Earth & The Environment
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has reported that sea ice around Antarctica reached its lowest month
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JAN 14, 2017
Plants & Animals
In a Conservation Management Plan released by the United States Fish and Wildlife service this week, climate change was
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 07, 2017
Plants & Animals
A Russian fisherman’s photographs have gone viral these last few weeks as he shared numerous photographs of what a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 29, 2016
Plants & Animals
Reindeer, an iconic mammal of the Winter season and well-known for pulling Santa’s sleigh for Christmas, are repor
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
DEC 17, 2016
Microbiology
Sawdust is thought of as a byproduct that isn't useful for much, but scientists at the Department of Energy's PNNL turne
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 14, 2016
Earth & The Environment
There are a number of problems with the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the Earth that are occurring because of climate
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 23, 2016
Plants & Animals
Russia’s Yamal Peninsula in northwestern Siberia, is perhaps the most productive reindeer-herding region in the wo
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 21, 2016
Earth & The Environment
Last Friday the Obama administration put a block on drilling in the Arctic and along the West Coast through 2022. The pr
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
SEP 28, 2016
Videos
Each year, scientists, researchers and pilots from NASA complete a survey of ice in Greenland and sea ice in the Arctic
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 27, 2016
Plants & Animals
If you’re a polar bear in the Arctic, then life isn’t getting any easier for you. Unfortunately, climate cha
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 26, 2016
Earth & The Environment
This article has been republished from Earth Island. It may have been edited for publication purposes. A visit with Tumu
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
SEP 22, 2016
Microbiology
As Siberia experiences warming temperatures and its ice melts, things are starting to emerge from what was once permafro
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 09, 2016
Chemistry & Physics
This week, the Daldykan River in northern Russia ran red. Social media posts called it the “River of Blood”
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis