Snow snake is a game rooted in cross-cultural traditions and whose practitioners have kept alive across Turtle Island for centuries. That ethos was no different at the Arctic Winter Games, where, earlier in the week, dozens of athletes from the circumpolar North lined up to take their best shot along a 200-metre track.
A glacier in Europe holds clues about the activities of pre-industrial people, but it's melting fast.
UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has accused Russia and Iran of attempting to “hijack the global economy” as Tehran continued to blockade a major oil shipping route. Iran’s new supreme leader has vowed to continue attacking shipping in the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for ongoing US-Israeli strikes on his country. The blockade has seen oil prices jump to around US$100 per barrel, threatening higher inflation across the globe. Speaking to the media during a visit to Saudi Arabia, the UK...
As athletes go for golden ulus, another game is happening on the sidelines at the 2026 Arctic Winter Games: pin trading. Whitehorse is abuzz as everyone from athletes to volunteers try to complete their collection.
Carney also said four northern projects, including the Arctic Economic and Security Corridor, are being referred to the Major Projects Office for expedited review and approval.
Carbon that has been buried in the Congo Basin's peatlands for millennia is seeping into lakes and rivers. Why this is happening remains unclear, but researchers warn that tropical peatlands could be nearing a tipping point.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 6, 28 March 2026.
When a rare red aurora borealis lit up the Yukon night sky, 16‑year‑old Cohen Quash stood outside with his grandfather in Watson Lake, watching the crimson flares. He said his grandfather told him he’d never seen the aurora borealis that colour before. That astonishing moment, he said, inspired his beaded art piece that became the design on the Team Yukon buff worn during the official Arctic Winter Games opening ceremonies.
PARIS (FRANCE) - Arctic sea ice is headed for one of its smallest winter peaks on record, an AFP review of US data showed Wednesday, as climate change shrinks the region's frozen cover and heightens geopolitical tensions.
In Alaska, a simple exchange is more than a radio check, it’s reassurance that when distance, weather or infrastructure fail, communication does not. The post Arctic Connect validates HF communication across Alaska appeared first on Daily Dispatch.
For Naja Pearce and Kayla Tikivik, competing in Arctic Sports is a family affair. The sisters, at the Arctic Winter Games this week in Whitehorse, are coached by their mom and train together nearly every day in Iqaluit.
Construction costs for housing and condo projects already launched remain largely unaffected by global uncertainties, although a prolonged rise in oil prices could push up building costs for new developments, says SET-listed developer Sansiri.
Lake Unter-See in Antarctica, sealed beneath thick ice, contains unusually high levels of dissolved oxygen and cone-shaped microbial reefs resembling some of Earth’s oldest fossils.
A group of fishermen fishing off the Georgian Bay shore tried to escape as an ice shelf broke off, but 23 were left stranded and had to be rescued.
Anglers describe harrowing phone calls to loved ones once ice detached from shores of Georgian Bay in Ontario Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Kevin Fox thought the spring-like temperatures that had temporarily pushed the cold away from south-eastern Ontario meant a good day on for ice fishing, a popular winter pastime in the region. After shifting location because the wind and ice “didn’t feel right” and the fish weren’t biting close to shore, he and a friend joined nearly two dozen others far out on a sheet of ice in Lake Huron. They followed the familiar routine of anyone who spends a day on the ice: they drilled holes, dropped their lines and waited. Continue reading...
“The carbon atom has six electrons / that move faster than bodies move / from one form to another.”
Thai exporters are under growing pressure to accelerate their transition to low-carbon production, as the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) came into force on Jan 1, though its effects have been felt for several years.
Central bankers and economists warn prolonged conflict could raise retail prices and rip up growth forecasts Heather Stewart: UK must be prepared for a price shock from the Iran war An inflation shock triggered by the US-Israel attack on Iran could wreck a fragile global economic recovery that had been expected to gain momentum this year. With oil and gas prices spiking, despite a pledge from Donald Trump to protect tankers making their way through the crucial strait of Hormuz shipping chokepoint, central bankers and economists have warned that a prolonged conflict could increase retail prices around the world and force them to rip up growth forecasts for this year. Continue reading...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 5, 16 March 2026.
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Work continues at pace at Rothera Research Station, Antarctica. More areas of the Discovery building, our new scientific support and operations facility, are now handed over to us as we remove some of the legacy buildings. The post 6 March 2026: Postcard from Rothera Research Station appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Hundreds of visitors are pouring into Whitehorse this week for the Arctic Winter Games, leaving few hotel rooms, vacation rentals and rental cars available — and forcing some families to come up with creative solutions. For Team Alaska parent Rachel Arvelo, that meant turning to a moving truck when every car rental company in town told her they were already booked solid.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 131, Issue 3, March 2026.
The Carbon Removers are the embodiment of the old adage of necessity being the mother of invention as they develop new ways to capture and store carbon
A West Coast carbon market alliance would test the limits of state climate power.
Mission staff with teams competing in the Arctic Winter Games in Whitehorse this month say the teams are readying uniforms, arranging travel and preparing athletes for events while eagerly anticipating the competition, the camaraderie and the cultural exchange.
A person taking part in a military training exercise in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, has been injured after an apparent parachuting mishap and a "hard landing" on the sea ice.
The ice along Antarctica’s ‘grounding lines’ has been largely stable over the past 30 years – but ice has retreated by more than 40 km in some areas, a new study based on satellite data finds.
Antarctica lost an area of ice more than eight times larger than Greater London over the last 30 years, a study has revealed.
The relative lack of snow and dry conditions means Nunavut’s Arctic Winter Games ski team has only trained outdoors a couple of times this winter. They even travelled to Quebec to get some extra training in.
The 2026 Arctic Winter Games is just around the corner and members of Team Yukon are ready to hit the ice, field, and slopes to compete against athletes from around the globe. Two members of Team Yukon who are representing Dawson City share how they're feeling with the games a little over a week away.
In a rollercoaster series of events, a foreign student at Columbia University was arrested by ICE agents but then quickly released after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani raised concerns with President Donald Trump.
The United Nations announced Thursday the approval of the first carbon credits under a global market aimed at reducing emissions, a mechanism that has faced scrutiny over greenwashing concerns.
From ice ages to asteroid strikes, an epic book shows how important it has been for humans to look outwards. Alex Wilkins surveys a climate historian's cosmic sweep
Scientists studying satellite images of Antarctica have stumbled upon a discovery that sheds new light on emperor penguins – and reveals a troubling threat to their survival. The post Accidental discovery reveals grim future for emperor penguins appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Scientists studying satellite images of Antarctica have stumbled upon a discovery that sheds new light on emperor penguins – and reveals a troubling threat to their survival. Researchers from British … The post Accidental discovery reveals grim future for emperor penguins appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Statistical analysis reveals ancient bone carvings hold complex information rivaling early Mesopotamian scripts.
The Congo Basin’s peatlands have stored carbon for millennia, but new research suggests much of it is now escaping.
A sweeping agreement to market carbon credits from 14 forest reserves could generate more than $1.5 billion but critics warn the legal framework remains unfinished
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 4, 28 February 2026.
Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee has deleted a post seemingly comparing ICE agents to members of Mexican cartels.
Will Stancil, a longtime critic of Trump and the Republican party, made a massive error on the roads as he stalked ICE agents in Minnesota, according to a journalist that was with him.
Hong Kong’s Ocean Park has temporarily closed its Arctic Fox Den after the enclosure’s last two remaining animals, “Siu Go” and “Trinity”, died of old age. The theme park announced on Saturday that Siu Go and Trinity had both died at the age of 11. It did not specify when the deaths occurred. “The park’s animal care and veterinary team closely monitored the health of each arctic fox throughout their later years and provided them with meticulous care,” a spokesman said. “However, they ultimately...
A group of European scientists have recently proposed an idea to sink mature trees from the vast boreal forest in Canada, Alaska and Russia into the deep Arctic ocean, to store the carbon for centuries to come.
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Antarctica's vast ice sheets and fragile ecosystems are already changing at an alarming rate - and now scientists have revealed just how bad it could get.
Researchers rewound the clock 70 million years to solve the mystery of the Antarctic gravity hole.
LONGYEARBYEN, Svalbard - There are no outward signs of jitters, at least not yet: people in Svalbard are going about their daily lives as normal despite speculation that this Norwegian archipelago could be the next Arctic territory coveted by the United States or Russia.
“Most of the glaciers that I used to ski on are pretty much gone,” Lindsey Vonn said.
Learn how glacier fronts in Greenland concentrate polar cod and create critical feeding grounds for ringed seals.
The mysterious depths of the Antarctic Ocean are home to only a handful of sea creatures.
Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures after being arrested by ICE agents in January Minnesota and federal authorities are investigating the alleged beating of a Mexican citizen by immigration officers last month, seeking to identify what caused the eight skull fractures that landed the man in the intensive care unit of a Minneapolis hospital. Investigators from the St Paul police department and FBI last week canvassed the shopping center parking lot where Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents wrested him from a vehicle, threw him to the ground and repeatedly struck him in the head with a steel baton. Continue reading...
An ungainly barrel of a shark cruising languidly over a barren seabed far too deep for the sun’s rays to illuminate was an unexpected sight. Many experts had thought sharks did not exist in the frigid waters of Antarctica before this sleeper shark lumbered warily and briefly into the spotlight of a video camera, researcher Alan Jamieson said this week. The shark, filmed in January 2025, was a substantial specimen with an estimated length of between three and four metres (10 and 13 feet). “We...
glaciers Vonn, Shiffrin and Brignone among the Olympic skiers voicing concern over receding glaciers
The discovery of an antibiotic-resistant microbe locked in Romanian cave ice highlights both the risks of a warming world and an unexpected source of future medicines.
Antarctica is home to many mysteries, but one of the strangest is an enormous 'gravity hole' deep beneath the ice. Now, scientists know why it is there.
Snowy owls that once glided across wide open spaces of the Arctic tundra are seeing their homes shrink under thickening shrubs. They face a gauntlet of other threats, all of which decimate their numbers. Yet the raptor’s path to legal protection moves at a sluggish pace.
Nunavut's U19 girls hockey team won a bronze ulu at the Arctic Winter Games, marking the team's first-ever medal according to its head coach.
German, Canadian and Norwegian leaders are meeting in the Norwegian Arctic on Friday to discuss the region's fragile security situation, against the backdrop of a large NATO exercise.
Spare a thought for the iceberg A23a which, after an extraordinary 40-year life voyaging around the southern Atlantic Ocean, is this month expected to die unnoticed close to the island of South Georgia, a mess of “brash ice, small icebergs and bergy bits”. A23a was one of the largest “megabergs” to be spawned in our lifetimes. When it broke away from the Filchner Ice Shelf into the Weddell Sea in Western Antarctica in 1986, it covered an area of around 4,000 sq km – about the size of Hong Kong...
China has become the first country to mass produce the strongest carbon fibre, which has wide applications for defence industries such as aerospace, drones and robots, state broadcaster CCTV’s military channel reported on Wednesday. The domestically developed T1200-grade fibre has a tensile strength 10 times greater than ordinary steel, yet it is less than one-tenth of a human hair in diameter, according to the state broadcaster. Mass production of the ultra-strength fibre at a projected output...
Learn how ancient DNA uncovered Ice Age forests on sunken Doggerland and revealed a landscape that once linked Britain to mainland Europe.
Team N.W.T.’s Chris Stipdonk set a new Arctic Winter Games record in the knuckle hop Wednesday, hopping 217 feet and breaking his own world record in the process.
'If you can explain Antarctica, you've never been there.' That was the quote from our captain, Jorn Bowitz, as we set off on our voyage to the White Continent.
Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to Norway to observe NATO's massive Cold Response exercise above the Arctic Circle and meet Nordic leaders before visiting the United Kingdom. The trip underscores Canada's focus on Arctic security, allied co-operation and closer ties with northern European partners.
Arctic sea ice is nearing a historic low winter peak. This trend signals accelerating global warming. The shrinking ice threatens polar ecosystems and wildlife. It also opens new shipping routes and resource access. This is reshaping geopolitical competition in the region. Nations are increasing activity as the Arctic transforms.
Arctic Winter Games participants have access to a variety of lounges and entertainment spaces at their accommodations, including something new this year: brave spaces.
An international team of scientists is heading to Greenland this summer for a two-month expedition to discover how quickly the ice sheet’s rapidly melting glaciers are pushing the Atlantic Ocean towards a critical climate tipping point. The post Scientists race to understand Greenland-North Atlantic climate tipping point appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
Credits and offsets in Alberta’s carbon market, known as the TIER system, have fallen to $22.53, according to a price tracker.
Learn how tymoviruses infect crop plants, where these ancient plant viruses originated, and how humans have increased their spread.
Learn how bacteria inside marine snow may dissolve shell minerals and influence how the ocean stores carbon.
Athletes might be the stars of the show, but the Arctic Winter Games can't escape politics. The games kicked off on Sunday with the flyover of a CF-18 fighter jet at the opening ceremony in Whitehorse. Military aircraft flying over sporting events is nothing new in much of the world, of course, but in the Canadian North, it's practically unheard of.
"As we were walking out of Target, we saw a group of ICE agents. Two of the agents approached us. It sounds like a scene from a Gestapo movie."View Entire Post ›
Members from the Grey-Bruce detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police say they received a report of numerous people becoming stranded Sunday afternoon.
First it was Whale Wars, now it’s krill wars. The groups that took on Japanese whaling in Antarctica now have a new industry in their sights.
Many tribes are encouraged by Trump's choice of Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a member of the Cherokee nation, as the new DHS Secretary. ICE agents have been accused of racially profiling Native Americans.
Global markets have gone haywire after Donald Trump made new demands in the Iran war.
Canada’s defence agreement with South Korea signals the two countries’ “middle-power answer” to increasing cooperation between Beijing and Moscow in the Arctic region and Washington’s pressure on its allies for defence burden sharing, analysts said. The agreement, signed on February 25 as part of a 2+2 foreign and defence ministerial meeting, followed the Security and Defence Cooperation Partnership (SDCP) established by the two countries in October. According to a joint statement issued after...
New research by MIT geophysicists could assist efforts to remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it underground.
The phenomenon isn't a new one, but scientists have only recently come up with a convincing explanation for why it happens.
With 20 different sports and hundreds of youth athletes competing across multiple venues, the Arctic Winter Games needs a huge number of volunteers to be successful. But efforts to secure enough volunteers have hit some bumps in the road, according to the host society, including delays securing criminal record checks and some confusion over leave for some government employees.
"Nutritional stress does play a role. It's just that it doesn't appear to be the role that we thought it was, just driving bears en masse desperately into communities," said Douglas Clark, a professor in the University of Saskatchewan’s School of Environment and Sustainability.
Previously unreported records also offer new details about what was cut from ICE’s basic training program. Concerns about the quality of ICE agents’ training have mounted for months.
Some Arctic security analysts say one thing that's not talked about enough when it comes to Canada's sovereignty in the North: intelligence.
Learn how 30 years of satellite radar data mapped Antarctica’s grounding lines and revealed more than 10 Los Angeles–sized areas of grounded ice loss in vulnerable regions.
A new study concludes that warm ocean water was the primary driver of major West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat since the end of the last ice age 18,000 years ago. The post Warm ocean water, not air temperature, drove massive Antarctic ice retreat after the last ice age appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
More than 2,000 athletes from around the circumpolar North are expected to arrive in Whitehorse in the coming days for the 2026 Arctic Winter Games, which officially kicks off on Sunday evening.
Honor teases its ultra-thin Silicon-Carbon Blade Battery, said to offer more power than the 6,600mAh pack in the upcoming Magic V6. The post Honor teases its next-gen silicon-carbon battery that’s as thin as a playing card appeared first on Digital Trends.
Martin Kamen and Samuel Ruben's discovery of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in 1940 helped usher in a new era of dating artifacts from past civilizations.
Curtis Wright, 39, who lives in Houston, Texas, was grabbed by ICE agents and thrown into the South Texas Processing Center last November.
American officials are drafting a diplomatic cable that warns dozens of countries against adopting a climate fee on the shipping industry.
A bunker hidden in the Arctic might sound like somewhere a Bond villain would hide out, but the real-life 'Doomsday Vault' actually serves a very serious purpose.
The dramatic images reveal how shrinking sea ice is forcing the birds into smaller, increasingly crowded groups.
Satellite-based radar images show where a powerful earthquake in the Yukon, Canada, sent rock, snow, and ice spilling across the frozen landscapes of the St. Elias Mountains.
New research sheds light on what drives reddish water to emerge from underground to pour onto the Taylor Glacier.
Delegates from across the circumpolar world are in Whitehorse for Arctic summit as Canadian Forces prep for an epic trip from Herschel Island to Churchill, Man.
New research finds that Arctic peatlands are expanding as the far north undergoes rapid changes. It's an ominous sign.
[World Bank] Washington -- Six countries of the Congo Basin--Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Republic of Congo--are working to take bold steps to unlock results-based payments and climate finance. The newly launched Strategic Roadmaps for Carbon Market and Climate Finance in the Forest Sector for the Congo Basin Countries developed with support from the World Bank, serve as blueprints to transform the region's vast forest wealth into a powerful engine for
Team Nunavut will sport bright yellow and blue uniforms at the upcoming Arctic Winter Games. The team's pin shows people competing in the Dene Games pole-push event.
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he was sending a hospital boat to Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory that he has long coveted and threatened to seize by force. Trump’s rhetoric has ratcheted up tensions between the United States and Denmark, while putting the global spotlight on the Arctic as he insists mineral-rich Greenland is vital for US and Nato security against Russia and China. He said the boat would treat many “sick” people in Greenland, without providing any details on...
Judges in Manhattan and New Jersey ordered the feds to release Mamadou Ndoye, Sergigne Diop and Abdou Tall after finding that ICE agents made illegal arrests.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, Volume 131, Issue 2, February 2026.
A shark found in the Antarctic proves that predators are moving into new territory.
Ocean Visions is funding six research projects that will examine ways to cool the region or preserve sea ice.
The policies could see ICE agents restricted, monitored and prosecuted for crimes.
But stay tuned: We’ve still got more to share about this Antarctic expedition, and the next ones scientists are already planning.
The Amazon's biggest trees store disproportionately more carbon than smaller trees do, new study finds. But in the Peruvian Amazon, large trees are currently prioritized for harvest.
SANTIAGO (CHILE) - Scientists are sounding the alarm over the spread of bird flu across Antarctica, with a leading Chilean researcher telling AFP Tuesday of an observed strain "capable of killing 100 percent" of infected fauna.
The government says carbon markets could generate investment to support conservation, job creation and sustainable development.
The April 2024 strain was first found in five dead skuas in Antarctica.
Learn how Antarctica’s gravity hole formed inside Earth and grew stronger as its ice sheets took hold.
Earth’s river deltas, home to about 5% of the global population and some of the world’s major cities, are experiencing subsidence, which exacerbates the risks from sea-level rise. The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has captured a decade's worth of data showing land sinking faster than previously thought.
Warmer winters can result in thinner ice, so knowing safety rules is essential. The post Lake lovers beware: Winter ice isn’t always what it used to be appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.
MUNICH (GERMANY) - Britain will deploy its aircraft carrier group to the North Atlantic this year in a "powerful show of force" against Russian threats in the Arctic, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Saturday.