Aid Reaches Freezing Arctic Village
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An Alaska National Guard helicopter reached a frozen Arctic village on Tuesday with technicians who hoped to repair its electrical generator, which failed Sunday during a blizzard that sent the temperature to 20 below zero.
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Eight Arctic countries agreed a plan to counter a rapid thaw of the region on Wednesday with indigenous peoples accusing Washington of blocking stronger action meant to slow global warming.
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The Mauritanian Red Crescent delivered a ton of emergency humanitarian aid Tuesday to hundreds of illegal immigrants stranded on a ship off the West African coast.
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Arctic sea ice shrank to the smallest area on record this year, researchers in the US confirm.
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China dispatched the army Wednesday to help millions of people stranded by intense snowstorms that have brought transport gridlock, crippled power supplies and hindered relief efforts, state media reported.
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Scientists find many regions on Earth that once had permanent frozen ground are now experiencing a thaw.
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There's more to the recent dramatic and alarming thawing of the Arctic region than can be explained by man-made global warming alone, a new study found. Nature is pushing the Arctic to the edge, too.
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With no heating and just three hours of electricity a day, Malokhat Atayeva is struggling to survive the coldest winter in three decades in her small town in western Tajikistan.
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GIRDWOOD, Alaska -- The snow is knee-high along the banks of Crow Creek, where men are crouching up to their chests in near-freezing water, and the air is several degrees colder.
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Plant material and pink ice found at the bottom of the ice sheet under this wind-swept camp could give scientists an unprecedented look at life that&#39;s
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A clear-up operation is under way after severe flooding hits a County Antrim village.
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The Arctic is undergoing rapid and possibly irreversible climate change, says a major report.
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Eight nations with Arctic territory agreed yesterday to fight glacial melting and other effects of climate change in the region, though
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The Russian authorities have accepted Norway&#39;s offer of medical assistance for the Beslan siege victims. Norwegian health authorities will now send a shipment of medicines and medical equipment to North Ossetia.
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Eight Arctic countries agreed on small steps to brake a rapid thaw of the region on Wednesday with indigenous peoples accusing Washington of
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By BETH GORHAM  WASHINGTON (CP) - Global warming has become such a daily problem for Arctic Inuit that they need air conditioners part of the year but rarely have them, Canadian activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier told an international rights group Thursday.
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Authorities dispatch 16-year-old boy to remote Siberian village for an 'intensive educational experience'