The Center for Biological Diversity filed a notice of intent this week to sue the U.S. Department of the Interior and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for allegedly failing to adequately protect polar bears from a Western Arctic exploration project. Under the Endangered Species Act, a notice of intent is required 60 days before the […]
Posts Tagged ‘Arctic’
Lawsuit to protect Arctic polar bears from oil drilling launched against Biden administration
Ancient Siberians Bred, Bought and Traded Arctic Dogs
Genetic breeding programs in the ancient Arctic required fresh DNA from faraway places. Therefore, long-distance trade routes rang with the barks and howls of horny Arctic dogs as they marched northwards to play away from home. Approximately one million people, representing about 9% of the total population in the Arctic, belongs to one of 40 […]
Arctic Circle Anomalies: Archaeological Insight Under the Permafrost
The Arctic Circle is the farthest northern of the five major circles of latitude on the planet. It marks the northernmost point at which the center of the noon sun is just visible on the winter solstice . During the summer solstice , the heart of the midnight sun is just visible at the southernmost […]
What is the Arctic Council and what does it want?
Arctic nations’ foreign ministers will meet on Thursday in Reykjavik, Iceland, where Moscow is set to take a rotating chairmanship in the Arctic Council. The multilateral forum brings together NATO members with the alliance’s main opponent, Russia. The meeting comes as Russia’s extensive development of an airbase at Nagurskoye is causing concern in the West. […]
Biden reverses last-minute Trump effort to loosen Arctic drilling restrictions
Joe Biden’s administration has reversed a last-minute push by Donald Trump to overturn drilling restrictions for the oil industry in the Arctic Ocean. The Trump administration attempted to change regulations put in place during the Obama era in December 2020, which assure safety while drilling in the area of the ocean, which sits off of […]
US Troop Build Up Threatens Resource War In The Arctic
Above photo: Michael H. Lee. The U.S. military has announced its intention to expand its presence in the Arctic. This perfectly highlights why the fight against climate change must be anti-imperialist. While plenty of headlines are being dedicated to the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, an increase of U.S. forces in another area has gone […]
CNN Catches Russians Red Handed Hiding Secret Arctic Bases!
March 18th, an article here on NEO predicted an unprecedented new arms race. April 5th, Nick Paton Walsh at CNN confirmed my prediction with liberal order media’s fear-evoking story about Russia’s so-called “super weapons”. According to the news network owned and operated by the world’s largest telecommunications company (AT&T) “Russia is amassing unprecedented military might […]
Russia launches satellite to monitor climate in Arctic
Russia has launched a satellite into space to monitor climatic changes in the Arctic. The satellite, Arktika-M, successfully reached its intended orbit after being launched from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur cosmodrome by a Soyuz rocket on Sunday. The launch is part of the Kremlin’s push to expand its activities in the Arctic region as Russia seeks to […]
Arctic town launches bid for 2032 Summer Olympics
A tiny town in Finland’s Arctic Lapland region is bidding to host the 2032 Summer Olympics, in a tongue-in-cheek awareness-building campaign with serious undertones to draw attention to the effects of global warming. Salla, the self-proclaimed coldest place in Lapland located just north of the Arctic Circle, launched the international “Salla 2032 Summer Games Candidate […]
The first ever US oil lease sale in the Arctic is a huge fail
The beginning of 2021 was nerve-racking for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as the Trump administration held its first-ever oil and gas lease sale in the refuge’s coastal plain. According to The Hill, the money made from this sale would be used to pay for proposed tax cuts for corporations. A lease sale on Wednesday […]
Three dead and six missing after avalanche hits Russian Arctic ski resort
Three people have been killed in an avalanche at a ski resort in the Russian Arctic. It swept through the Mount Otdelnaya ski complex near the city of Norilsk in Krasnoyarsk region at 00.30 on Saturday morning. So far, rescuers have recovered the bodies of a woman, her 18-month-old child and her husband. A 14-year-old […]
Every Major Bank Has Now Ruled Out Funding Arctic Drilling
By Dharna Noor, Gizmodo. December 4, 2020 Above photo: Imagine wanting to drill for oil in a place this gorgeous. Steven Chase/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Getty Images. We got another one. On Monday evening, Bank of America said that it will no longer finance fossil fuel exploration in the Arctic, joining Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, […]
Major US bank promises not to fund Arctic drilling
Bank of America has officially committed to not financing any oil and gas exploration in the Arctic. Thanks to pressure from environmental groups and Indigenous communities, one more big bank has joined its peers like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Chase, Wells Fargo, and Citi in this environmental commitment. According to EcoWatch, the decision is especially […]
Trump administration rushes to auction off Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drilling rights before Biden inauguration
In what critics are calling a parting gift to the fossil fuel industry, the Trump administration on Tuesday will ask oil and gas companies to choose which areas of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska—which is the sacred homeland of the Gwich’in Indigenous people—they would like to drill. The Washington Post reports the administration’s call for nominations is a […]
Seven things to learn on the Arctic from documentary photographer Louie Palu
The Arctic is undergoing an unprecedented ecological transition that will have an impact far beyond the region. A study funded by The National Science Foundation (USA) has suggested that it has warmed by 0.75 degrees Celsius in the last decade. There is a stark contrast when comparing this figure with the rest of the world, […]
Russian strategic bombers escorted by US F-22 over neutral Arctic waters – MoD
The Tu-95MS planes, together with Tu-142 anti-submarine warfare aircraft, were conducting planned training flights over the neutral waters of the Arctic Ocean, the Bering Sea and the Sea of Okhotsk, Major-General Igor Konashenkov, a Defense Ministry spokesman, said on Saturday. Russian long-range bombers target ISIS positions in Idlib & Deir ez-Zor in Syria – MoD […]
Herds of Arctic Reindeer Walking in Mesmerizing Circular Patterns
A video of several reindeer herds on Russia’s Kola Peninsula, in the Arctic Circle, walking in circular patterns for no apparent reason has been getting a lot of attention on social media lately. The video was originally posted on the Facebook page of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography Peter the Great, aka Kunstkámera, located in […]
Top NASA scientist previously claimed all ice will VANISH from the Arctic by this summer
(Natural News) Climate alarmists are everywhere — but real science continues to show that these scaremongers are the ones full of hot air. Back in 2008, a top “climate prophet” from NASA predicted that the Arctic would be free of sea ice by summer 2018. But data from 2017 has shown quite […]
Arctic warming? Scientists alarmed by supposed temperature rises
Record warmth in the Arctic this month could yet prove to be a freak occurrence, but experts warn the warming event is unprecedented An alarming heatwave in the sunless winter Arctic is causing blizzards in Europe and forcing scientists to reconsider even their most pessimistic forecasts of climate change. Although it could yet prove […]