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Environment

Is there anything we can do to stop Greenland from turning green?

The speed and scale of Arctic melting is shocking even hardened researchers – the need to act now has never been clearer, says our chief reporter Adam Vaughan

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Two polar bears on the ice

Environment

Snowflakes are making the Arctic warm faster by acting like a blanket

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Greenland

Environment

Amazing Arctic images show how ice melt is creating the new north

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This stunning map shows why everyone is fighting over the Arctic

Environment

This stunning map shows why everyone is fighting over the Arctic

Features

Isla Myers-Smith: Climate change and the greening of the Arctic

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Isla Myers-Smith: Climate change and the greening of the Arctic

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Polar sledge exhibit

Earth

North Pole and Polar Worlds review – why Inuit don't worry about north

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Environment

Cargo ships through the Arctic may cool the region with pollution

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A polar bear on a rock

Life

Field notes: Polluted polar bears await the great Arctic land grab

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A diver shines a torch on some ice from underneath

Environment

A warm-water time bomb could spell disaster for Arctic sea ice

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Warming Arctic could be behind heatwave sweeping northern hemisphere

Environment

Warming Arctic could be behind heatwave sweeping northern hemisphere

Deadly heatwaves could continue for weeks, and possibly months, across much of the northern hemisphere, meteorologists predicted this week

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Earth

An entire Arctic ecosystem could vanish within the next decade

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Earth

Join NASA's Operation IceBridge on its icy polar mission

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Life

Virtuoso bowhead whales constantly make up new songs

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Earth

Polar melt may shut down the Atlantic current that warms Europe

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