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This week, delegates are meeting to determine the fate of a proposal to protect part of the Arctic. This pianist's moving performance urges people to show their support.

Take a breathtaking 9-minute journey with wildlife photographer Vincent Munier through the beautifully bleak frozen North, you won’t be sorry.

More good news for the Arctic as the Obama administration pushes off further offshore drilling in Alaska.

Today, Shell announced it will abandon exploratory drilling off the coast of Alaska.

Activists risk arrest in an effort to prevent slow oil drilling exploration in the Arctic.

Braving polar bears and subfreezing temperatures, years of preparation pay off for a University of Hawaii astronomy team.

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has asked pilots to avoid flying too close to a group of about 35,000 walrus gathered on an Alaskan beach.

Tens of thousands of walrus haul out on Alaska’s shore.

Actors Emma Thompson and Michelle Thrush are traveling with their daughters to the North Pole, as part of an Greenpeace campaign to create an international sanctuary in the Arctic.

The map-makers are calling this the biggest change that they had to make since the breakup of the U.S.S.R.!

The graph says it all...

One of the perverse effects of climate change, and of the fact that the poles are warming up faster than the rest of the planet, is that Arctic sea ice is retreating more than we've ever seen before, opening up the Arctic sea to oil shipping and drilling.

Using publicly available data already gathered by federal agencies, a new report shows that actions to effectively reducing climate disruption must include keeping dirty fuels in the ground.

The amount of Arctic sea ice has plummeted in recent decades—a bold manifestation of the rise in temperature resulting from the rapid increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.

Arctic sea ice has plummeted to lows unseen in the past millennium. Historical records show that the summertime Arctic ice coverage varied little for more than 1,400 years. Then it began its freefall.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA have released a report on the state of the Arctic over the past year.

If the Obama Administration is serious about addressing climate disruption, halting all oil leasing and drilling in the Arctic Ocean is the place to start.

A new study published in at the journal Geophysical Researcher Letters by researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder found that Canadian arctic temperatures have reached their highest levels in 44,000 years and perhaps the highest in 120,000 years