By Laurel Jarombek President Barack Obama’s recent visit to Alaska may be historic in that he is the first sitting president to make a trip to the Arctic Circle, but whether his words and actions there will change the course of history is far less certain. His visit coincided with the Conference on Global Leadership

World Policy On Air is a podcast from the pages and website of World Policy Journal. The Arctic is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the globe. On today’s episode of World Policy On Air, Subhankar Banerjee details the plight of the Arctic’s indigenous population, who are witnessing the disastrous effects of

By Erica Dingman The field of science is known for expressing caution with the interpretation of its findings, but this is for a  good reason. Scientific reports are couched in terms of ‘uncertainty,’ ‘likely,’ and ‘high, medium, or low confidence’ – nothing in life is guaranteed. So I was astonished to read a statement made

By Megan McGarrity This past Earth Day (April 22), a large crowd gathered at City Hall in Ottawa, Canada, to hear from leading Arctic science and policy experts about the impacts of climate change on the Arctic. The Canadian Climate Forum hosted this event in partnership with Arctic21 and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Global Arctic

By Erica Dingman “Climate change is a key pillar of the United States chairmanship program just as it is, in fact, a key part of the United States foreign policy writ large today.” —John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State, April 24, 2015 Tackling the causes of climate change leading to the unprecedented melting of the

This article was originally published in the Wellesley Magazine. Deborah Cramer is the author of The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey. By Deborah Cramer Illustrations by Christiane Engel It is June, but it doesn’t feel like summer. Instead of kayaking through the salt marshes near my home in

By Diane Burko I am an artist consumed by how ice is an indicator of climate change. Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, whose ice sheet empties into the Arctic Ocean, first attracted my attention in 2010 when a large piece of its floating tongue cracked off. The giant iceberg that separated from the sheet (the size of

By Edward Struzik As Arctic sea ice continues to retreat, the world is no longer looking solely at the oil and gas that may lie in the region. Increasingly, it’s the future of fisheries that is taking center stage in the geopolitical discussions that come with planning for the future Arctic. This was made evident

By Chantal Bilodeau A few weeks ago, I returned from a trip to Tromsø in the Norwegian Arctic, where I spent five days working on my new play Forward. I had been invited by Hålogaland Teater to participate in their ArtLab program, which provides 25 hours of rehearsals followed by a public presentation of the

By Rob Huebert The Arctic faces a transformation of epic proportions. Formerly a region of isolation from the rest of the world, it was home to only a small number of northern inhabitants such as the Inuit, who had adapted to a very specialized way of life to live there. For the rest of humanity,