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Arctic

People move for many reasons: work, school, family, to seek out the bright lights of the big city or to escape them. But as temperatures…
Jennifer Hynes returns to the show to talk about her second piece of monumental climate research "The Demise of The Arctic"
Some Alaskans joke that mosquitoes are “Alaska’s state bird,” but the pesky insects are becoming no joke. Warming Arctic temperatures have caused their numbers to…
"When it comes to the global climate, what happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic. The latest proof comes in new research…
The Arctic has in recent weeks become a focal point of geopolitical tensions between Russia and the United States. Given the present rate of global…
President Obama is visiting Alaska this week — a territory changing as rapidly as any on earth thanks to global warming. He’s talking constantly about the danger…
The World Trade Organization (WTO) on Wednesday ruled against India over its national solar energy program in a case brought by the U.S. government, sparking…
Per Espen Stoknes, a Norwegian psychologist and economist, has been doing a lot of thinking about a question that has bedeviled climate scientists for years:…
Claiming that the continued development and burning of fossil fuels violates their constitutional rights, 21 young plaintiffs—ranging in age from 8 to 19—filed a landmark…
The oceans of the world are currently experiencing a “perfect storm” that is nasty, real nasty with too much warming, too much acidification, too much…
Carolyn and Mark Matousek discuss his work with helping people transform through telling the truth about their own personal stories. [embed]http://lifeboathour.podbean.com/mf/web/td2zgq/LifeboatHour_073115.mp3[/embed] Download this episode (right…
Even if humanity were to stop throwing carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere today, a catastrophic rise in sea levels of six meters may…