NASA’s Terra satellite captured floating fragments of sea ice as ocean currents carried them south along Greenland’s east coast on June 4, 2024. This ice traveled from the Fram Strait, a 450-kilometer (280-mile)-wide passage between Greenland and Svalbard, to the Arctic Ocean. Along the journey, it breaks into smaller pieces and starts to melt in warmer ocean waters...
It’s not just rising air and water temperatures influencing the decades-long decline of Arctic sea ice. Clouds, aerosols, even the bumps and dips on the ice itself can play a role. To explore how these factors interact and impact sea ice melting, NASA is flying two aircraft equipped with scientific instruments over the Arctic Ocean north of Greenland this summer. The...
Above: Palestinians carry the bodies of the two young men Khaled Shurrab and Mustafa al-Samarin during their funeral in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. The two Palestinians, Shurrab and al-Samary, were killed during the sinking of a boat during their migration to Europe in pursuit of a better life. Thousands of middle-class residents have been displaced in...
Alaska Native communities have been faced with, at best, exclusion from fishery decision- making processes, and at worse, the direct criminalization of their traditional subsistence practices. But Indigenous communities and Native-led organizations in the Bering Sea are taking action to advocate for their rights. Here, we explore how Alaska Native communities are...