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The Arctic Ice Sheet is no longer reaching the Alaskan Northern Coast, and the waves are taking the land and the US Air Force Radar Stations with it. The Radar Stations are also home to contaminants in the soil that will soon end up in the sea.

A new animation from NASA shows that Arctic sea ice loss over the past 28 years has been enormous... with potentially devastating consequences for the larger global environment.

"Scientist Katey Walter tells Gelf how the melting Siberian permafrost is releasing tons of greenhouse gases into the air—and why that might be a good thing."

If you can't beat it use it!

Two-thirds of the world's current polar bear population could be gone by 2050 if predictions of melting sea ice hold true, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Friday.

The US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) publishes its data on conditions in the Arctic at the end of every summer, or “melt season”. This year’s details, released yesterday, show that levels of ice in the Arctic Ocean are lower than ever before.

Sea ice in the Arctic is approaching a record low, and Inuit people are now wearing T-shirts and buying air conditioners in the summer for the first time. Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier explains how climate change is threatening her people's way of life and very survival.