Arctic

In the Arctic, a great change is taking place. Permafrost, which covers around 25 percent of exposed land in the Northern Hemisphere, is melting.

Podcast

Interview: Jessica McCarty On Why Arctic Wildfires Are Especially Bad News

Alex Wise Arctic, arctic wildfire, podcast, wildfire

Are recent headlines declaring that “The Arctic is on Fire!” just sensationalist reports or do these fires represent an unprecedented and alarming danger?

Under Water

Interview: Jonathan White Explores The Science & Spirit of Ocean Tides

E The Environmental Magazine Arctic, China, energy, France, Indians, Inuit, Jonathan White, Kuna Yala, Mt. St. Michel, Normandy, ocean, Qiantang River, rights, Scotland, tidal, tidal resonance, tide, tides, wave, waves

In his new book Tides, author & conservationist Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides…

EarthTalk

Whazzup with ANWR?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer ANWR, Arctic, bear, bears, caribou, coastal plain, Ed Markey, Michael Bennet, musk oxen, polar, Senate, wildlife, wildlife refuge

Senate Democrats Michael Bennet and Ed Markey introduced legislation last December calling for permanently designating the most sensitive sections of ANWR as wilderness off limits to development.

EarthTalk

Arctic Warming: Keeping Ice = Saving Climate

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Alaska, Arctic, Arctic warming, carbon foot print, carbon footprint, glaciation, glaciers, ice, ice shelf, melt-out, melting, NOAA, polar bear, Q&A, TerraPass, Ward Hunt Ice Shelf

The Arctic is an “indicator region” for the rest of the planet: small changes there can have profound ecosystem impacts elsewhere in the world…

EarthTalk

Are Polar Bears Faring Better Given Endangered Species Protection?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Arctic, bears, Endangered Species Act, Environment Canada, Far North, Fish and Wildlife Service, polar bear, public comment, Russia, sea ice, threatened, US FWS, USFWS

Dear EarthTalk: How have polar bear populations in the Arctic been faring since the U.S. put them on its endangered species list in 2008, and what efforts are underway to protect them? —Melissa Underhill, Bangor, MER Biologists estimate that as many as 25,000 polar bears […]

Going Green

Interview: Asdis Birgisdottir

Ethan Goffman Arctic, fox, Iceland, trekking, wildlife

Asdis Birgisdottir is a designer as well as a certified trekking guide. She has traveled Iceland on foot, by horseback and by super-jeep and has worked at the Þingvellir National Park as a supervisor with diving and as a ranger… EarthTalk: What was Iceland like prior to human habitation and what was the state of […]