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Barack Obama defends Shell Arctic drilling decision

Last Updated: Saturday, August 29, 2015, 16:09

Two days before heading to Alaska to raise climate change awareness, US President Barack Obama on Saturday defended his controversial decision to allow Shell to drill in the Arctic`s Chukchi Sea.

US gives Shell final nod to drill for oil in Arctic

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 18, 2015, 17:08

The Obama administration granted Royal Dutch Shell final clearance on Monday to resume drilling for oil and gas in the environmentally fragile Arctic Ocean for the first time since 2012, a move green groups vowed to fight.

Brutally cold weather shuts schools, delays travel in US Midwest

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 03:16

Bitter cold and high winds surging down from the Arctic pushed wind chills to dangerous levels across the upper Midwest on Monday, forcing officials to close schools and warn drivers off roads, and slowing public transit and river traffic.

Arctic temperature recorded as warmest in 44,000 years

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 11:29

New research has suggested that the temperatures in the Arctic now must be warmer than during any sustained period.

Arctic storms more rampant than previously believed

Last Updated: Friday, January 17, 2014, 14:38

A new study suggests that about 1,900 cyclones churned across the top of the world each year from 2000 to 2010, leaving warm water and air in their wakes - and melting sea ice in the Arctic Ocean.

Is climate change behind US cold snap?

Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 18:47

The arctic blast that brought record low temperatures across the US in the past few days has provided fuel for global-warming sceptics, even as scientists debate whether the extreme cold might, in fact, be a consequence of a warming climate.

First road to Canada`s Arctic coast breaks ground

Last Updated: Thursday, January 9, 2014, 03:47

Prime Minister Stephen Harper officially broke ground Wednesday on the US$185 million first all-season highway to Canada`s Arctic coast, which it is hoped will open up resource development in the far north.

Record freeze extends to eastern United States, at least nine dead

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 8, 2014, 02:30

A deadly blast of arctic air shattered decades-old temperature records as it enveloped the eastern United States on Tuesday, snarling air, road and rail travel, driving energy prices higher and overwhelming shelters for homeless people.

Sub-zero arctic blast strikes US

Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 15:42

Millions of people across the United States today made last minute preparations for an unusually bitter Arctic blast that could send temperatures plummeting to their coldest in 20 years.

US Midwest, Northeast brace for Arctic blast, record lows

Last Updated: Sunday, January 5, 2014, 10:37

Many parts of the US Midwest braced for a blast ofArctic air this weekend that could bring some of the coldest temperatures in two decades before advancing to the Northeast, where residents are still digging out from a deadly snowstorm.

Russia to expand air patrols in Arctic

Last Updated: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 02:19

The Russian Navy will expand its air patrol ranges in the Arctic in 2014, echoing President Vladimir Putin`s calls to strengthen the country`s presence in that region, media reported Friday.

No regrets say Greenpeace Arctic activists after UK return

Last Updated: Saturday, December 28, 2013, 08:00

ive British Greenpeace activists arrived home in defiant mood on Friday after Russia granted them an amnesty to halt their prosecution for protesting against oil drilling in the Arctic.