Melting point:Temperatures soar in the Arctic,Antarctica

Melting point:Temperatures soar in the Arctic,Antarctica

Earth’s poles are undergoing simultaneous heatwaves,with parts of Antarctica and the Arctic 30 to 40 degrees warmer than average.

  • bySeth Borenstein

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From blazing Perth to the edge of the Arctic for green jobs

From blazing Perth to the edge of the Arctic for green jobs

An Australian couple has joined the “green rush” to a small town in Sweden which has become one of the first boomtowns of the EU’s green industrial revolution.

  • byRichard Orange
Climate change has crashed Earth’s ‘air-conditioners’,risking rest of planet

Climate change has crashed Earth’s ‘air-conditioners’,risking rest of planet

Authors of a new report card on the state of the top of the world say it is “hugely surprising” to see things changing so fast.

  • bySarah Kaplan
The Arctic is disappearing before our eyes.
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The Arctic is disappearing before our eyes.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its 2021 Arctic report card and its findings are concerning. Vision:NOAA

Arctic temperature soared to unprecedented 38 degrees in 2020,scientists say

Arctic temperature soared to unprecedented 38 degrees in 2020,scientists say

The World Meteorological Organisation said the temperature “more befitting the Mediterranean than the Arctic” was registered on June 20,2020,during a heat wave that swept across Siberia.

Hubert Wilkins:Australian flies blind into eye of an Arctic storm and into history
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Hubert Wilkins:Australian flies blind into eye of an Arctic storm and into history

The first men in history to complete the hardest,most dangerous and most improbable flight flew 22 hours and 20 minutes non-stop over the Arctic.

  • byPeter FitzSimons
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Australia’s forgotten hero:Anzac photographer was a visionary ahead of his time
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Australia’s forgotten hero:Anzac photographer was a visionary ahead of his time

Spy,photographer,writer,cameraman,explorer,war hero,air ace:Hubert Wilkins deserves more credit for his many achievements.

  • byPeter FitzSimons
With stroke of pen,Biden returns the US to the Paris Climate Agreement

With stroke of pen,Biden returns the US to the Paris Climate Agreement

The executive orders signed by Biden also included a sweeping order to review all of former President Donald Trump's actions weakening climate change protections.

  • byLisa Mascaro
Trump sale of drilling leases in Arctic refuge fails to yield promised windfall

Trump sale of drilling leases in Arctic refuge fails to yield promised windfall

Among the winning bidders is an affiliate of 88 Energy,an Australian oil company that has an interest in a drilling project on state-owned lands in northern Alaska.

  • byHenry Fountain
'Political exile'in Arctic bears the punishment for opposing Putin

'Political exile'in Arctic bears the punishment for opposing Putin

Ruslan Shaveddinov was one of Russia's most promising opposition politicians when security agents in black masks broke down his door and took him to a leaky hut on a desolate archipelago.

  • byRobyn Dixon
All-time record melt:Greenland loses 532 billion tonnes of ice

All-time record melt:Greenland loses 532 billion tonnes of ice

Greenland lost more ice last year than at any other time on record,adding 532 trillion litres of water to already rising sea levels.

  • bySeth Borenstein