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As Wells Fargo Joins Banks Rejecting Funding of Arctic Drilling, Pressure Heats Up on Others to 'Do Their Part'

Climate campaigners continue to demand all banks reject financing of climate-wrecking projects.

'This Is a Big Deal': Goldman Sachs Rules Out Funding New Coal Projects, Arctic Oil Drilling

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Sign reads: Finance the future not fossil fuels

"The smart money on Wall Street is drawing red lines on oil and gas, and exiting coal."

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Deep Trouble for Arctic and Beyond: NOAA Climate Report Warns of Feedback Loop That 'May Already Be Underway'

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

coastal communities

"If this were an annual health check-up, I think we'd have to say that the...

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In Twist of Climate Crisis, Study Finds Extreme Arctic Snowfall in 2018 Caused Near 'Complete Reproductive Failure of Plants and Animals'

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

The Zackenberg valley in Northeast Greenland, summer 2018 - huge amounts of snow still covered the ground in late June, where the snow-covered season usually is coming to an end. (Photo: Lars Holst Hansen)

"2018 may offer a peep into the future, where increased climatic variability...

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methane seep

'This Is Truly Terrifying': Scientists Studying Underwater Permafrost Thaw Find Area of the Arctic Ocean 'Boiling With Methane Bubbles'

UN Climate Report on Oceans, Frozen Regions Warns 'Unprecedented Transitions in All Aspects of Society' Needed to Sustain Life on Earth

The Greenland ice sheet may melt at a pace that could break records set in 2012 this year as a heatwave from Europe turns north.

To Stop the Worst Effects of the Climate Crisis, Report Says 'The Level of Ambition Needs to be Tripled'—At Minimum

Tipping Point: UN Biodiversity Chief Warns Burning of Amazon Could Lead to 'Cascading Collapse of Natural Systems'

Global Temps Continue to Soar Upward as NOAA Confirms July 2019 Was Hottest Month Since Records Began in 1880

'This Is Crazy': Scientists Alarmed as Lightning Near North Pole Seen as Latest Sign of Climate Breakdown

Greenland's southwestern coastline

'We Urgently Need to Change Our Way of Living,' Experts Warn as Heat Wave Causes Historic Ice Melt in Greenland

View of China's military base in the King George island, in Antarctica, on March 13, 2014.

US Eyeing Militarization of Antarctic as Well as Arctic

The Greenland ice sheet may melt at a pace that could break records set in 2012 this year as a heatwave from Europe turns north.

'We Are in a Climate Emergency' Warn Experts and AOC as Greenland Ice Sheet Faces Possible Record-Breaking Melting

Several wildfires between about 57°N and 70°N

Satellite Images Ignite Alarm Over 'Unprecedented' Scale and Planet-Heating Emissions of Raging Arctic Wildfires

A view of Akademik Lomonosov, a floating nuclear power unit, its hull painted at the Atomflot base; being part of a floating nuclear power station, the vessel belongs to a new class of energy sources based on Russian nuclear shipbuilding technologies.

'Chernobyl on Ice': Nuclear Plant Barge Headed Across Arctic Circle

A collapsed block of ice-rich permafrost along Drew Point, Alaska.

'Canary in the Coal Mine': Experts Warn of Climate Tipping Point as Scientists Find Permafrost Thawing 70 Years Ahead of Schedule

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Elegy For the Arctic

Fires are raging, ice is melting. In a bid to save the singular "purity and fragility" of the rapidly-melting Arctic ice - and in support of eight million voices calling for its protection - Greenpeace has released a video of renowned Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi performing on a floating platform before Norway's Wahlenbergbreen glacier, cracking and groaning even as he plays - a haunting reminder of what's at stake.

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Sierra Club

Following Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase Announcements, Wells Fargo Rejects Funding for Arctic Drilling

As You Sow

JPMorgan Chase to Announce Restrictions on Coal and Arctic Oil and Gas Funding

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JP Morgan Chase, Largest Bank in U.S. Rules Out Funding New Oil Drilling in Arctic Refuge

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America’s Biggest Bank Will Not Fund Arctic Refuge Drilling

Sierra Club

Yet Another Global Bank Rejects Arctic Refuge Drilling

Sierra Club

Pressure Mounts on Oil Companies and Banks to Reject Arctic Drilling

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Michael Klare

The Arctic: World War III’s Newest Battlefield

Erika Spanger-Siegfried

The Climate Decade: A Global Crisis Unveiled, a Global Movement Unleashed

Juan Cole

Sizzling Arctic: Top 5 Climate Horror Stories in NOAA’s Report Card

Dahr Jamail

Savoring What Remains in an Age of Climate PTSD

David Suzuki, Rachel Plotkin

Connecting the Dots Between the Climate and Biodiversity Crises

Michael Klare

The Pompeo Doctrine: A Formula for Catastrophe in the Arctic

John Atcheson

What Corporate Media and the Neoliberal Establishment Can't Admit About the Climate Emergency

Chloe Zilliac

Will Antarctic Ice Doom Us All?

Andy Rowell

Arctic Warming & Climate Change 'Should Be the Number One Urgent Conversation Right Now'

David Suzuki, Ian Hanington

Rapid Warming Deserves More Than a Lukewarm Response