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Cooperation between both sides - Alaska and the Chukotka region - was started in the 1980 by researchers trying to understand marine mammal migration patterns. What makes this special is the early collaboration between research and…

Particular attention is needed to ensure that ICARP IV informs national research and policy priorities. The Arctic Initiative is committed to the ICARP IV process: Jennifer Spence is co-chairing the team focused on science cooperation…

Building Healthy and Thriving Arctic Communities: A Discussion with Arctic Mayors and U.S. Arctic Research CommissionersArctic communities face a multitude of complex health challenges, from inadequate access to health services and…

Sea ice in Disko Bay, Greenland, 20. March 2023. Credit: Lars Henrik Smedsrud Recent decades have witnessed rapid changes in the Arctic…

Fisheries ManagementAs a result of rising sea and air temperatures and declining sea ice coverage, profound changes are underway in the distribution and behavior of many Arctic species, including some commercially valued fish and marine…

Antarctic sea ice is “behaving strangely” and might have entered a “new regime”, the director of the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) tells Carbon Brief. Following an all-time low maximum in September…

Sea ice at the top of the planet…

STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.Y. – Forty-six Airmen from the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing participated in Arctic Edge 24, a U.S. Northern…

BEAUFORT SEA, Arctic Circle (March 17, 2024) – Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti traveled to the Arctic Ocean to attend Operation Ice Camp (ICE CAMP) 2024 and to visit with crewmembers of a U.S.…

NOAA’s 2023 Arctic Report Card documents new records showing that human-caused warming of the air, ocean and land is affecting people, ecosystems and communities across the Arctic region, which is heating up faster than any other part of…

The Arctic is known for its cold temperatures, which allow precipitation to fall as snow.…

The Gravity for the Redefinition of the American Vertical Datum, or GRAV-D, crew with the plane affectionately named "Miss Piggy." Alaska has the longest…

IntroductionThe Arctic is warming three to four times faster than the rest of the globe. Various feedback mechanisms are accelerating climate change in the High North, yet uncertainties about these processes hinder our ability to…

Before the creation of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in 1980, conservationists fought for many decades to protect these lands that sit relatively untouched at the northeastern edge of Alaska. And for just as long, oil…

Cambridge, MA – The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School is pleased to announce the appointment of Jennifer Spence as Project Director of the Center’s Arctic Initiative. As Project Director, she…

A new study supported in part by CPO’s Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle and Climate (AC4) Program provides an overview of the Alaskan Layered Pollution And Chemical Analysis (ALPACA) field experiment. ALPACA is funded largely by the…

Arctic Edge 24, a U.S. Northern Command exercise, brought together more than 400 special operations forces (SOF) to integrate, share lessons and refine their tactical effectiveness in diving operations,…

The Arctic often feels like a faraway place. However, a recent study shows that despite its remoteness, the Arctic is no sanctuary from human pollution. What is happening? Recent evidence from a study by scientists at…

Ice breaking up on the surface of the Arctic Ocean.  Credit: Melissa Gervais Arctic sea ice is shrinking as the world continues to warm, and…

Coastal wetlands have the ability to keep pace with moderate amounts of sea level rise by trapping sediments and sequestering carbon, raising their surface elevation. However, there has been ongoing scientific debate about how much…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The Arctic could see summer days with practically no sea ice as early as the next couple of years,…

Credit: The Cryosphere (2024). DOI: 10.5194/tc-18-995-2024 Will ice floating in the Arctic Ocean move faster or slower over the coming…

2024-03-04This six-session study group, led by Arctic Initiative Senior Fellow Margaret Williams, evaluated the costs and benefits of renewing cooperation with Russia on science and conservation issues. In the process, participants…

Most cooperation between the West and Russia on conservation and research has been put on hold in the Arctic, but Indigenous organizations have some flexibility.Since Russia’s invasion on February 24, 2022, most forms of collaboration…

A team of researchers from Platform Aerospace, the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) recently used a Platform "Vanilla"…

The COVID-19 pandemic was a global phenomenon, but its impacts in the Arctic, and the experiences of Arctic communities, were distinct.In September 2023, the Arctic Initiative hosted the official launch of “Arctic Pandemics: COVID-19 and…

In July 2023, the Arctic Yearbook launched a special issue on “Arctic Pandemics: COVID-19 and other Pandemic Experiences and Lessons Learned.” The volume includes fifteen peer-reviewed articles and ten shorter contributions and is…

Arctic Indigenous Peoples Strengthen Arctic GovernanceRemarks by Sara Olsvig during Panel 1 - "Arctic Governance Organizations Promoting Cooperation"The first Arctic Peoples’ Conference was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1973. Here…

How can we better understand the science of global and regional climate change and predict and react to the challenges it presents?  One way is to explore climate change and the processes controlling those changes over different…

1. IntroductionThe sustainable development concept has long been the focus of academic and applied research. R.K. Singh and his colleagues list 80 indices for assessing sustainability in different aspects of development. The number of…

In this video message, NOS Deputy Assistant Administrator Rachael Dempsey shares how recent advancements in the GRAV-D project will help reduce risk for…

In this video message, NOS Assistant Administrator Nicole LeBoeuf celebrates the 25th anniversary of NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration. (Video Transcript)…

Up to $60 million total funding from PrairiesCan and the Manitoba Government supports the completion of the major Capital Program on the Hudson Bay Railway and begins investment in the re-development of the Port of Churchill…

5. The Arctic can serve as a model peaceful governance for other regions.The concept of a peace park in the Bering Strait, proposed by former U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, emphasizes the early roots…

IntroductionOn February 14, 2023, the Russian Federation announced that it would suspend its annual payments to the Arctic Council “until the resumption of real work in this format with the participation of all member countries.”i This…

Above some parts of Antarctica, there is a curious negative greenhouse effectimageBROKER.com GmbH & Co. KG / Alamy Rising concentrations of methane and carbon dioxide have led to a “negative greenhouse…

Markers of biological ageing in polar bear tissue samples reveal that stress associated with climate change appears to be taking a toll

If you are an Arctic enthusiast like me, your newsfeed on Wednesday morning was likely full of articles announcing Russia’s decision to suspend annual payments to the Arctic Council until “real work” resumes or some variation on that…

1. IntroductionThe chemical composition of dissolved matter from river runoff, which is one of the main inputs that affects the ocean’s geochemical balance, with the exception of cyclic salts, is formed as a result of the weathering of…

The figure shows the most powerful heat wave in the Arctic Ocean to date in 2020, which continued for 103 days. The cumulative heat intensity sums up the daily…

Snow Crab Ex is a two-week exercise designed to test and evaluate U.S. Navy EOD capabilities in a simulated Arctic environment and, ultimately, improve Navy EOD’s combat effectiveness. During the exercise,…

KINGSTON, R.I. — Despite the Arctic Ocean’s distance from most people, the “forever chemicals” swimming there have reached the Northeast, and research led by University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography professor Rainer…

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The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of datasets from the Salinity and Stratification at the Sea Ice Edge (SASSIE) 2022 Arctic Field Experiment. From August to October 2022, a suite of autonomous and shipboard…

CAMBRIDGE, MA - The Arctic Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is pleased to announce the appointment of Sara Olsvig to its International Advisory Board. Olsvig, a prominent…

In this video message, NOS Assistant Administrator Nicole LeBoeuf shares the news that NOAA and partners helped recover over $92 million from polluters to restore seven…

The collaborative team integrated NPS’ own cutting-edge flight-path planning software known as POTION (Path Optimization) with the Vanilla UAV, developed and operated by Platform Aerospace. This initiative…

More than a week of storms and bitterly cold temperatures left a blanket of snow across…

Snow Crab Ex 24-1 is a two week exercise designed to test and evaluate U.S. Navy EOD capabilities in a simulated Arctic environment and, ultimately, improve Navy EOD’s combat effectiveness.“We have a…

A large mass of Arctic air spilled south…