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Environment

Melting of Greenland ice sheet could release methane 'fire ice'

Seismic surveys and sediment cores suggest that dozens of deep pockmarks on the sea floor were created when Arctic methane stores were disrupted by climate change after the last glacial maximum – and scientists warn it could happen again

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Environment

Arctic fires are releasing carbon stored for thousands of years

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Unexpectedly moving book makes the case for the Arctic

Environment

Unexpectedly moving book makes the case for the Arctic

Culture

Life

Polar bears are getting fatter in the fastest-warming place on Earth

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Trees floating towards the Arctic Ocean

Environment

Sinking trees in Arctic Ocean could remove 1 billion tonnes of CO2

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Calving at the front of the Hisinger Glacier in Greenland

Environment

Some Arctic warming ‘irreversible’ even if we cut atmospheric CO2

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A polar bear grizzly bear hybrid , Ursus maritimus, t

Life

What the family drama of interbreeding polar and grizzly bears reveals

Features

Icebergs in the Arctic

Environment

Climate heating has reached even deepest parts of the Arctic Ocean

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Life

We are unlocking how frozen microbes stay alive for 100,000 years

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Reindeer on the Arctic tundra in summer

Video

The surprising way plants can slow Arctic melt

The Arctic is the fastest-warming place on Earth, leading to a greener tundra and thawing permafrost. But there is a surprising upside to more plants, at least in the short term

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Video

How Tara Polar Station will push the limits of Arctic research

Video

Environment

Mining the Arctic's precious resources is a fool's errand

Leader

Environment

Will climate change lead to an industrial boom in the Arctic?

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A floating laboratory will uncover the secrets of Arctic winter

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