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A Frozen Planet II team set up to film inside a mountain glacier in Iceland

Frozen Planet II review: David Attenborough's sequel dazzles

8 September 2022

The spectre of climate change hangs over David Attenborough’s follow-up to Frozen Planet, while two new nature documentary series, Epic Adventures With Bertie Gregory and Super/Natural, are no match for the veteran presenter


An exhibition at the British Museum explores Arctic culture and climate change

British Museum exhibition shows how Arctic culture is under threat

28 October 2020

Arctic: Culture and Climate, an exhibition at London’s British Museum, celebrates the resilience and adaptability that has seen the Arctic's Indigenous People survive and thrive in a challenging environment for 30,000 years


Polar sledge exhibit

North Pole and Polar Worlds review – why Inuit don't worry about north

21 November 2018

Exciting tales of heroic polar explorers make a great exhibition, but a book on the North Pole shows that times are too changed not to seek deeper narratives


An entire Arctic ecosystem could vanish within the next decade

An entire Arctic ecosystem could vanish within the next decade

25 June 2018

The Barents Sea, home to a diverse array of wildlife, could be completely gone in just a few years – perhaps the most dramatic impact of climate change yet seen


Baffin Bay

Join NASA's Operation IceBridge on its icy polar mission

25 April 2018

This photoset is a glimpse into life as an ice watcher – flying long missions over frozen polar terrain to keep tabs on the warming world


Virtuoso bowhead whales constantly make up new songs

Virtuoso bowhead whales constantly make up new songs

3 April 2018

Bowhead whales are such talented singers they can make two sounds simultaneously, and they invent new songs every year


Melting ice

Polar melt may shut down the Atlantic current that warms Europe

12 March 2018

Melting Arctic ice flooding into the Atlantic could put the ocean circulation that warms Europe in danger, triggering dramatic sea-level rise and drought


Record low Arctic ice linked to freak weather in US, Europe

Record low Arctic ice linked to freak weather in US, Europe

8 March 2018

The unusually cold and snowy conditions hitting the US now, and experienced last week across Europe, may be a direct consequence of the Arctic's warmer winter


icebreaker

A cracking idea: The radical way to open up frozen seas

7 March 2018

Arctic routes are getting busier and some ships get trapped in the ice. Rather than smash them out with brute force, there is a more elegant way to free them


Arctic hit by record high temperatures as rest of Europe shivers

Arctic hit by record high temperatures as rest of Europe shivers

27 February 2018

The extreme warmth is likely to slow or prevent the formation of Arctic sea ice, which has been shrinking for decades due to climate change.


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