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The temperature was "more befitting the Mediterranean than the Arctic", UN agency said. Photo : NDTV

World+Biz

UN validates 38C Arctic heat from 2020 as record high

Satellite imagery shows lightning strikes occuring above the Arctic regions of Alaska, United States, July 12, 2021. NOAA Handout via REUTERS

World+Biz

Scientists stunned by rare Arctic lightning storms north of Alaska

Cold, but not at war Photographer: Maxim Popov/AFP via Getty Images

Analysis

As the Arctic heats up, how to keep the peace

World+Biz

Nornickel pays Russia $2 billion over Arctic fuel leak

Aerial view of the town of Narsaq in southern Greenland, located 5 km (3.106 miles) from the site of a rare earths mine planned by Australian-listed company Greenland Minerals, which some residents have opposed over environmental concerns, in this undated September 2020 handout photo. Greenland Minerals Ltd/Handout via REUTERS

Analysis

Mining magnets: Arctic island finds green power can be a curse

US President Donald Trump participates in a phone call with Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley October 4, 2020, in his conference room at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Not shown in the photo also in the room on the call is Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Photo: Reuters

World+Biz

Trump administration issues last-minute Arctic refuge drilling leases

Sea ice in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago in July 2017. Seawater samples were taken from 71 locations across a vast swathe of the Arctic region. Photo: David Goldman/AP via CNN

Environment

Synthetic microfibres making their way from our clothes to our bellies

A view of the Esmarkbreen glacier on Spitsbergen island, part of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Norway, September 24, 2020. Picture taken with a drone on September 24, 2020. REUTERS/Natalie Thomas/File Photo

Climate Change

Warming Arctic at the frontier of climate insight and risk, experts say

Rosneft intends to develop large oil reserves in the northern Ural region's tundra.Ruslan Shamukov / TASS

Global Economy

Russian oil giant announces start of vast Arctic project

Danish patrol vessel P571 Ejnar Mikkelsen is seen in Sisimiut harbor, Greenland, in 2015. Picture taken in 2015. Photo: Reuters

World+Biz

As the Arctic's attractions mount, Greenland is a security black hole

Several hundred scientists from 20 countries travelled in the icebreaker 'Polarstern'. Photo: BSS/AFP

Climate Change

Biggest North Pole mission back from ‘dying Arctic’

Polarstern ship used for Arctic expedition. Photo: BSS

Environment

Arctic odyssey ends, bringing home tales of alarming ice loss

Photo : BBC; sourced from COPERNICUS DATA/ESA/SENTINEL-2B/PromiceGL

Climate Change

Global warming shatters the last remaining largest glacier in Arctic