@SecBlinken : In the Arctic, we have to be able to strike the right balance between conservation and development. If you’ve got the right incentives, if you’ve got the right oversight, conservation can deliver economic benefits to communities.
@SecBlinken on the Arctic: We’re working together to try to promote safety and security, sustainable economic growth, and continued cooperation among the Arctic states to try to support and strengthen a rules-based order throughout the region.
Russia launched a satellite to monitor the climate in the Arctic
Brazos Electric Power Cooperative Inc., a power supplier in Texas, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the wake of the energy crisis brought on the state by an Arctic weather spell last month.
Russian mystery: Siberia's ‘colossal’ exploding craters spark concerns for Arctic
Russia launched its space satellite Arktika-M on a mission to monitor the climate and environment in the Arctic
Norilsk Nickel, the Russian mining giant behind the worst Arctic oil spill in history, now plans to invest $5.5 billion over the next 10 years to modernize equipment, clean up existing pollution and support national parks
#Opinion : US and Canada plan to modernize a network of defense in the Arctic to counter Russia and China. Yet it is the US that poses the biggest challenge to the North Pole.
The pictures show presence of an odd landscape in the cold Arctic depths of #Siberia in #Russia , near the Markha River with widespread ripples. #NASA
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An Arctic fox goes pink thanks to colours of November sunset over the Gulf of Ob. All pictures by Alexander Yakovlev
TRUMP SCAM ALERT: @realDonaldTrump just leased public lands in the Arctic Nat’l Wildlife Refuge to oil & gas companies for just $11 an acre! This is an outlandish and unacceptable giveaway that threatens one of America’s greatest natural treasures.
California is on fire. Once in a lifetime hurricanes are sweeping the Gulf Coast. The Arctic topped 100 degrees. The future of our planet is at stake this election. We can no longer have a president in office who rejects science and calls climate change a hoax. #GreenNewDeal
A half million people in Oregon evacuate as wildfires rage. Over 3 million acres in California burned. The western sky is red. An 800-mile derecho destroyed towns in Iowa. The Arctic topped 100 degrees. The Green New Deal has been called "expensive." Compared to what?
Do not tell me that a Green New Deal is “radical.” What’s radical is doing nothing to stop climate change while the Arctic is on fire.
A few days ago, temperatures within the Arctic Circle topped 100 degrees, shattering records. With so many unprecedented crises facing this nation and the world, we must never lose sight of the biggest existential threat facing the planet: climate change.
New study: if we stop emissions immediately, Arctic still warms 5C/9F by century's end. We're not stopping global warming any more; we're fighting like hell for a level that civilizations might survive. #ClimateStrike
87°F just south of the Arctic Circle in Finland today. Folks, you may think that this is not normal and you'd be right
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