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​Arctic & Antarctic Harmful Exploitation

​​- Oil & Gas

- Deep Seabed Mining

- Shipping

- Nuclear Weapons Testing & Waste Dumping

Biodiversity

Climate Change in General

Climate Finance

Climate Ethics - ​Geoengineering​

Climate Literacy

Defense and Arctic Security

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Global Commons

Ice Crisis

​- State of the Sea Ice

- Impacts of Ice Loss

Innovation & Technology

Oceans

​- Extreme Weather Events

- Ocean Plastics

People

​- Indigenous Communities

- Climate and Gender

- Youth & Intergenerational Action

Policy & Governance

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Climate Change in General

Explainer: Nine ‘tipping points’ that could be triggered by climate change, (Accessed: 06.2020)

Climate change indicators and impacts worsened in 2020, (Accessed: 05.2021)

Arctic warming three times faster than the planet, report warns, (Accessed: 06.2021)

Nearly 14,000 Scientists Warn That Earth's 'Vital Signs' Are Rapidly Worsening, (Accessed: 07.2021)

Ice Crisis

State of the Sea Ice

Impacts of Ice Loss

NSIDC: Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis, , (Updated Daily)

What are the impacts of Arctic sea ice loss?, (Accessed: 12.2020)

Study: Antarctic Ice Sheets May Begin Irreversible Decline by 2060, (Accessed: 06.2021) 

A whale chorus reveals how climate change may be shifting migration, (Accessed: 04.2021) 

Arctic sea ice thinning twice as fast as thought, study finds, (Accessed: 07.2021) 

Six ways loss of Arctic ice impacts everyone. (Accessed: 05.2021) 

'Last Ice Area' in the Arctic may not survive climate change, (Accessed: 07.2021) 

Third of global food production at risk from climate crisis, (Accessed: 06.2021) 

Arctic & Antarctic Harmful Exploitation

Oil & Gas

Deep Seabed Mining

Why Is There So Much Oil in the Arctic?, (Accessed: 04.2020)

Factbox: What happens when there is an oil spill at sea? (Accessed: 05.2021) 

Why Drilling the Arctic Refuge Will Release a Double Dose of Carbon, (Accessed: 06.2021) 

'Future Belongs to Renewable Energy': Greenland Ditches All Oil Drilling, (Accessed: 07.2021) 

Shipping

Why Arctic Countries Must Go Further Than the IMO’s Weak Arctic Heavy Fuel Oil Ban, (Accessed: 06.2021) 

How a Russian Vessel’s Grounding Highlights Perils of Arctic Shipping, (Accessed: 07.2021)

Unsustainable Arctic shipping risks accelerating damage to the Arctic environment, (Accessed: 09. 2021)

Greenpeace: In Deep Water, (Accessed: 05.2020) 

Fauna & Flora International: The risks and impacts of deep-seabed mining to marine ecosystems (Accessed: 07.2020)

Out of our depth: Deep seabed mining is not the answer to the climate crisis, (Accessed: 01.2021)

Major Companies Join Call For Deep- Sea Mining Moratorium, (Accessed 05.2021)

Nuclear Weapons Testing &
Waste Dumping

Nuclear Waste In The Arctic, (Accessed: 05.2020) 

Russia Tests Nuclear 'Doomsday' Torpedo in Arctic, Expands Military, (Accessed: 05.2021)

Tackling dumped nuclear waste gets priority in Russia’s Arctic Council leadership, (Accessed: 06.2021)

Policy & Governance

The lawfulness of mining activities in Antarctica - Space Law, (Accessed: 04.2020)

Weddell Sea: 8 Reasons for a Marine Protected Area (Accessed: 05.2021)

New High Seas Treaty Could Be a Gamechanger for the Ocean, (Accessed: 04.2020)

 International Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean, (Accessed: 01.2021)

Global Commons

Elinor Ostrom's 8 Principles for Managing A Commons, (Accessed: 05.2020)

The Tragedy of the Commons: How Elinor Ostrom Solved One of Life's Greatest Dilemmas, (Accessed: 05.2020)

Global Environment Facility: The Opportunity of the Commons, (Accessed: 05.2020)

People

Indigenous Communities

Climate and Gender

Arctic Indigenous Peoples (Accessed: 05.2021)

Food Insecurity: Arctic Heat Is Threatening Indigenous Life, (Accessed: 04.2020)

Saving the Arctic: the wisdom of the Inuit and the future of the North Pole, (Accessed: 07.2020)

The value of involving Indigenous people in protecting Antarctica, (Accessed: 07.2021)

'Nature has ceased to trust us', (Accessed: 09.2021)

5 Reasons Why Climate Action Needs Women. UN Climate Change, (Accessed: 05.2020)

Executive Summary Our Voices, Our Environment: The State of Funding for Women's Environmental Action This report, (Accessed: 07.2020)

Women and climate action, (Accessed: 05.2020)

Scope for improvement: Linking the Women, Peace and Security Agenda to climate change, (Accessed: 06.2020) 

Hands On: A Documentary On Climate Change By Five Women From Four Continents, (Accessed: 09.2021) 

Youth and Intergenerational Action

UN: #YouthStats: Environment and Climate Change, (Accessed: 05.2020)

A year of resistance: How youth protests shaped the discussion on climate change, (Accessed: 05.2020)

5 Young Women and Girls Fighting for Climate Justice You Should Know, (Accessed: 04.2021) 

The Power of Inclusive, Intergenerational Climate Activism, (Accessed: 06.2021) 

Biodiversity

Climate change could cause sudden biodiversity losses worldwide, (Accessed: 04.2020)

Climate change threatens Antarctic krill and the sea life that depends on it, (Accessed: 05.2020)

Arctic Ocean: climate change is flooding the remote north with light - and new species, (Accessed: 03.2021)

Cold fish: the global cooling effect of ocean life, (Accessed: 07.2021)

Arctic biodiversity at risk as world overshoots climate planetary boundary, (Accessed: 09.2021)

Oceans

Extreme Weather Events

Ocean Plastic

Arctic ice melt is changing ocean currents, (Accessed: 05.2020)

Atlantic currents moving plastic junk into the Arctic, research says, (Accessed: 04.2020)

How does the Arctic Affect Extreme Weather?, (Accessed: 12.2020)

Microplastics may affect how Arctic sea ice forms and melts, (Accessed: 01.2020)

In 5 charts: natural catastrophes in a changing climate, (Accessed: 07.2021)

It might be the world’s biggest ocean, but the mighty Pacific is in peril, (Accessed: 01.2021)

Climate change: Arctic warming linked to colder winters, (Accessed: 09.2021)

Plastic rafting: the invasive species hitching a ride on ocean litter, (Accessed: 07.2021)

Climate Literacy

Will 2021 be the year governments commit to quality climate education? A growing call for action ahead of the G-20, (Accessed: 06.2021)

Pressure builds for schools to put climate change study on curriculum, (Accessed: 05.2021)

Joint Civil Society Statement on Climate Education Ambition, (Accessed: 06.2021)

Climate of hope, (Accessed: 07.2021)

Defense and Arctic Security

The History and Future of Arctic State Conflict: The Arctic Institute Conflict Series, (Accessed: 06.2021)

As the US and Russia spar over the Arctic, Putin creates new facts on the ground, (Accessed: 05.2021)

Russia on Arctic Council Chairmanship: Wants to Revive the Military Dialogue Between Arctic States (Accessed: 06.2021)

Climate Ethics: Geoengineering

Innovation & Technology

What is Geoengineering? (Accessed 08.2020)

Releasing herds of animals into the Arctic could help fight climate change, study finds, (Accessed: 04.2020)

Could Geoengineering Help Save the World’s Ice?, (Accessed: 11. 2020)

Technology To Transform Food Production, (Accessed: 05.2020)

Sámi join call to cancel a geoengineering technology test in Northern Sweden, (Accessed: 04.2021)

Regenerative Agriculture Can Change the Fashion Industry—And the World. But What Is It?, (Accessed: 05.2020)

Geoengineering: A worst-case Plan B? Or a fuse not to be lit?, (Accessed: 09.2021)

Climate Finance

JP Morgan Chase Will Halt Financing of Arctic Oil, Gas Drilling, Coal Plants, (Accessed: 02.2020)

7 Ways Countries Can Restart Their Economies to Fight Climate Change, (Accessed: 05.2020)

Why we must pull financial levers to build for a changing climate, (Accessed: 08.2020)

The grand unifying theory (and practice) of macroprudential policy - speech by Mark Carney, (Accessed: 05.2020)

US pledges to double international climate finance at Earth Day summit, (Accessed: 04.2021)