Skip to main content

Close

Dear Common Dreams Readers:
Corporate media puts the interests of the 1% ahead of all of us. That's wrong. The corporate media and the billionaire class have controlled the narrative for way too long. In totalitarian countries, the government uses state media to manipulate public opinion and squash dissent. In America, corporations use those same tools to convince voters that commonsense, overwhelmingly popular ideas are impossible. But Common Dreams is different. We cover the news that matters. We know another world is possible. But we can’t do it without you. Our critical Winter Campaign is underway. Please—no amount is too large or too small—pitch in to support our people-powered model and keep Common Dreams strong. Thank you. -- Craig Brown, Co-founder

Please select a donation method:

FINAL DAY. We Still Need Your Help.

Common Dreams is the nonprofit news source for the 99%
Will you pitch in now to help meet our Winter Campaign goal?

Arctic

As Planet Cooks, One of the World's Coldest Towns Bids to Host 2032 Summer Olympics

#SaveSalla is a campaign launched by the Finnish community in partnership with the youth climate movement Fridays for Future. (Photo: www.savesalla.org.)

'Biggest Threat Yet' to Arctic Refuge as Trump Readies Last-Minute Lease Sale

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Activists attend a news conference on Republican sponsored legislation that would open the Alaskan wilderness to oil drilling outside the U.S. Capitol.

"We shouldn't be exploring drilling anywhere."

Read More

Under Pressure From Climate Activists, World's Largest Insurance Market to Ditch Coal, Tar Sands, and Arctic Projects

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Climate campaigners gathered outside the global headquarters of Lloyd's of London on September 1, 2020. (Photo: Insure Our Future Global/Twitter)

"An Insure Our Future welcomed the step but also said that "Lloyd's 2030...

Read More

In 'Huge Victory for Polar Bears and Our Climate,' Court Rejects Trump Approval of Offshore Drilling Project in Arctic

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Polar bears stand on an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean. (Photo: Lev Fedoseyev/TASS via Getty Images)

While welcoming the win, activists vowed to continue fighting against...

Read More

A musk-ox relaxing alongside the Canning River in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

As Lame-Duck Trump Pushes for Arctic Pillage, Bank of America Latest Bank to Rule Out Drilling in Alaska Wildlife Refuge

banner reads: fossil fuels=history

'Now Do #TarSands': TD Bank Urged to Go Further on Climate After Nixing Arctic Projects

Researchers Thought It Would Be At Least 30 Years Before Arctic Ice Time Capsule Was Found. It Took Just Two.

An satellite view of the Laptev Sea, Siberia. (Photo: NASA)

Researchers Worry Methane Discovery in Arctic Ocean Could Signal Dangerous New Climate Feedback Loop

The Laptev Sea is captured off the northeast coast of Russia's Bolshevik Island on August 30, 2014. (Photo: Ansgar Walk/Wikimedia/cc)

'Frightening Milestone': Scientists Sound Alarm Over Record Amount of Open, Iceless Sea in the Arctic

An oil pipeline stretches across the landscape outside Prudhoe Bay in North Slope borough, Alaska. "New absurdities from Big Oil," said the Energy Watch Group, which advocates for renewable energy, in response to the reporting. "What do you do when the Arctic is melting, threatening your drilling infrastructure—but you really don't want to stop drilling? Right, cooling the ground beneath the infrastructure and keep on drilling." (Photo illustration: Original by Bonnie Jo Mount/via Getty Images/with overlay)

'Demented': Oil Giant Refreezing Rapidly Melting Permafrost So It Can Keep Climate-Killing Arctic Drilling Alive

In the Arctic Ocean, sea ice reached its minimum extent of 1.44 million square miles (3.74 million square kilometers) on Sept. 15—the second-lowest extent since modern record keeping began. (Image: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio)

'Another Alarm Bell in the Climate Emergency' as Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks to Second Lowest Extent on Record

A member of the Porcupine caribou herd, which conservation and native groups say would be horribly impacted if fossil fuel exploration and extraction takes place in ANWR's Coastal Plain.

With 'Irreparable Damage' Looming, 15 State AGs File Suit to Block Trump From Fossil Fuel Assault on Arctic Refuge

Research Reveals Ancient Peat Bogs Burning and Unprecedented Emissions From 2020 Arctic Fires

Caribou graze on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

Coalition Files Suit to Stop Trump's "Slapdash and Tragic Plan" to Drill in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Demonstrators block the entrance to a Deutsche Bank branch in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart on September 20, 2019. (Photo: Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Pressured by Climate Activist Groups, Deutsche Bank Ditches Drilling in the Arctic

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

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

Further

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.

Newswire

As You Sow

Trump Auction for Arctic Oil Rights Sees Little Interest: ‘'Era of Drilling for Oil at Any Cost Is Over'

Defenders of Wildlife

Bureau of Land Management Finalizes Western Arctic Drilling Plan

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)

Arctic Refuge Becoming Oil & Gas White Elephant

Gwich’in Steering Committee

Gwich’in Steering Committee Responds to Bank of America Commitment Not to Fund Arctic Refuge Drilling

Earthjustice

Trump Administration Invites Oil Industry to Desecrate Sacred Arctic Refuge

Sierra Club

Trump Administration Attempts to Fast-Track Destructive Seismic Testing in the Arctic Refuge

Views

Adam Federman

Turns Out That the Oil Industry Wasn’t Interested in the Arctic Refuge After All

Andrew Slack, Sean Presant

Save Santa’s Home

Bernadette Demientieff, Siqiñiq Maupin

Why Is Bank of America Still Open to Funding the Destruction of Our Homelands in the Arctic?

Juan Cole

Arctic Heat Wave: Block of Ice Twice as Big as Manhattan Breaks off Greenland’s Largest Ice Shelf, Goes Into Ocean

Andy Rowell

Climate Change: Mind-Blowing Warnings from Arctic and Antarctica

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