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As Arctic Burns, New Data Shows June 2020 Capped Off Year Tied for Hottest on Record

Surface air temperature anomaly for June 2020 relative to the June average for the period 1981–2010.

'Warning Sign of Major Proportions': Number of Siberian Forest Fires Increase Fivefold in Week Since Record High Temperature

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

"The Arctic is figuratively and literally on fire."

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'This Scares Me,' Says Bill McKibben as Arctic Hits 100.4°F—Hottest Temperature on Record

Jake Johnson, staff writer

$A graphic shows record heat in the Arctic Circle on Saturday, June 20, 2020. (Image: Screengrab\@ScottDuncanWX)$

"100°F about 70 miles north of the Arctic Circle today in Siberia. That's a...

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Putin Declares Federal Emergency After Diesel Fuel Spill in Arctic River That Could Take Decades to Recover

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

An accident at a power station in the Russia region of Krasnoyarsk caused about 20,000 tonnes of diesel fuel to spill into an Arctic River on May 29, 2020.

Reports indicate melting permafrost caused by global heating may have damaged...

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

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

Sign reads: Finance the future not fossil fuels

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

coastal communities

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

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)

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

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

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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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Center for Biological Diversity

Trump Administration Plan Expands Oil Drilling in Alaska’s Arctic Reserve

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)

Arctic Climate Research Imperiled

Public Citizen

Brouillette Should Resign Over Racially Insensitive Remarks

Sierra Club

With New Morgan Stanley Policy, Bank of America is Only Remaining Major US Bank Without a Commitment Not to Fund Arctic Drilling

Sierra Club

As Major Banks Rule out Funding for Arctic Drilling, Bank of America Risks Getting Left Behind

Sierra Club

Citigroup is Latest Major US Bank to Rule Out Funding for Arctic Refuge Drilling

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Andy Rowell

As Arctic Temperatures Soar, Trump Lavishes Fossil Fuel Industry With Billions in Bailouts

Tara Lohan

Ten Years After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, We’re on Course to Repeat One of Our Worst Mistakes

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?