Maya
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International Affairs || Arctic & Europe
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Sometimes a fun story about polar bear mothers playing with their cubs in the #Arctic is just what you need. Enjoy! 🐻❄️ 🌺 pethelpful.com/pet-news/pol...
Polar Bear Cubs Spotted Soaking Up the Short Arctic Summer By Frolicking in the Grass With Mom
This looks like a scene from a movie!
pethelpful.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Sometimes a fun story about polar bear mothers playing with their cubs in the #Arctic is just what you need. Enjoy! 🐻❄️ 🌺 pethelpful.com/pet-news/pol...
India is hosting its first Arctic Circle Forum — underscoring how the Arctic is no longer a region of interest only to the 8 Arctic nations. Countries far from the pole, like India, are increasingly engaging in Arctic affairs.
pressreleasenetwork.com/site/2025/05...
pressreleasenetwork.com/site/2025/05...
India Hosts First-Ever International Arctic Forum | Press Release Network - News distribution & media monitoring service
The Arctic has now reached the center of geopolitics, creating strong implications for security and global business competition. Asian powers play an increasingly dominant role in the region at a time...
pressreleasenetwork.com
May 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
India is hosting its first Arctic Circle Forum — underscoring how the Arctic is no longer a region of interest only to the 8 Arctic nations. Countries far from the pole, like India, are increasingly engaging in Arctic affairs.
pressreleasenetwork.com/site/2025/05...
pressreleasenetwork.com/site/2025/05...
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The Monarch #butterfly embarks on one of nature's most incredible journeys, migrating up to 3,000 miles from #Canada to central #Mexico. These tiny travelers, with wings of vibrant orange, navigate the vast distances using the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields, defying the odds
April 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The Monarch #butterfly embarks on one of nature's most incredible journeys, migrating up to 3,000 miles from #Canada to central #Mexico. These tiny travelers, with wings of vibrant orange, navigate the vast distances using the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields, defying the odds
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Europe upside down on the first night of 2025
Severe frost in the Balkans and Central Mediterranean and exceptionally warm nights in North Europe
TMins +10/+12C in UK and Northern France,8/+9C in Denmark and Northern Germany,many records but they will drop before next evening
Severe frost in the Balkans and Central Mediterranean and exceptionally warm nights in North Europe
TMins +10/+12C in UK and Northern France,8/+9C in Denmark and Northern Germany,many records but they will drop before next evening
January 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Europe upside down on the first night of 2025
Severe frost in the Balkans and Central Mediterranean and exceptionally warm nights in North Europe
TMins +10/+12C in UK and Northern France,8/+9C in Denmark and Northern Germany,many records but they will drop before next evening
Severe frost in the Balkans and Central Mediterranean and exceptionally warm nights in North Europe
TMins +10/+12C in UK and Northern France,8/+9C in Denmark and Northern Germany,many records but they will drop before next evening
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Good for Tahlequah.
She would've been arrested in Texas for a miscarriage.
www.cbsnews.com/news/orca-wh...
She would've been arrested in Texas for a miscarriage.
www.cbsnews.com/news/orca-wh...
Orca who carried her dead calf for 17 days and 1,000 miles has a new baby
Tahlequah has a newborn girl, years after she made headlines for carrying her dead calf for 17 days.
www.cbsnews.com
December 26, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Good for Tahlequah.
She would've been arrested in Texas for a miscarriage.
www.cbsnews.com/news/orca-wh...
She would've been arrested in Texas for a miscarriage.
www.cbsnews.com/news/orca-wh...
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Here is your #Christmas weather forecast for the North Pole...
Temperatures will start off around -28°C (-18°F). Skies will be overcast, and there will be some fog for Rudolph to help navigate through to kick off Santa's flight! 🧑🎄🦌
Forecasts from www.yr.no/en/forecast/...
Temperatures will start off around -28°C (-18°F). Skies will be overcast, and there will be some fog for Rudolph to help navigate through to kick off Santa's flight! 🧑🎄🦌
Forecasts from www.yr.no/en/forecast/...
December 24, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Here is your #Christmas weather forecast for the North Pole...
Temperatures will start off around -28°C (-18°F). Skies will be overcast, and there will be some fog for Rudolph to help navigate through to kick off Santa's flight! 🧑🎄🦌
Forecasts from www.yr.no/en/forecast/...
Temperatures will start off around -28°C (-18°F). Skies will be overcast, and there will be some fog for Rudolph to help navigate through to kick off Santa's flight! 🧑🎄🦌
Forecasts from www.yr.no/en/forecast/...
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Christmas Day could be one of warmest on record in UK, predicts Met Office
Christmas Day could be one of warmest on record in UK, predicts Met Office
Band of ‘remarkably mild’ weather arrives in time for Christmas Eve, with 15C possible in some areas
Britain is on track for one of its warmest Christmases on record with the Met Office predicting temperatures that could peak at more than 6C above the…
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Christmas Day could be one of warmest on record in UK, predicts Met Office
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Good news: a bipartisan coalition of 24 governors—representing 55% of the U.S. population—pledged today to cut greenhouse gas pollution by at least 61% below 2005 levels by 2035. usclimatealliance.org/press-releas...
U.S. Climate Alliance Applauds New Federal Goal to Slash Harmful Climate Pollution, Sets Complementary Collective 2035 Target | U.S. Climate Alliance
Moving to secure a healthier future and a stronger economy for all Americans, the U.S. Climate Alliance today pledged to work to collectively reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 61-66 perc...
usclimatealliance.org
December 19, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Good news: a bipartisan coalition of 24 governors—representing 55% of the U.S. population—pledged today to cut greenhouse gas pollution by at least 61% below 2005 levels by 2035. usclimatealliance.org/press-releas...
The last ice area is the last area on Earth to experience permanent year-round sea ice. However, this region is increasingly subject to the multiple stresses of climate change (pollution by contaminants, increased shipping activity — including by tourist vessels).
theconversation.com/new-data-fro...
theconversation.com/new-data-fro...
New data from ‘the last ice area’ may help long-term conservation efforts in the Arctic
The last ice area is projected to be the last place on Earth to retain year-round sea ice by 2040. A recent Arctic expedition to the area has provided key data that could help guide conservation effor...
theconversation.com
December 17, 2024 at 12:49 PM
The last ice area is the last area on Earth to experience permanent year-round sea ice. However, this region is increasingly subject to the multiple stresses of climate change (pollution by contaminants, increased shipping activity — including by tourist vessels).
theconversation.com/new-data-fro...
theconversation.com/new-data-fro...
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Hot off the digital press: Alaska’s Changing Environment 2.0 is now online! Focused on observations and impacts to Alaskans. From warming air & ocean, ice & snow to salmon & berries. Please check it out. #akwx #Alaska #Climate #ClimateChange @climatologist49.bsky.social
uaf-accap.org/alaskas-chan...
uaf-accap.org/alaskas-chan...
December 3, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Hot off the digital press: Alaska’s Changing Environment 2.0 is now online! Focused on observations and impacts to Alaskans. From warming air & ocean, ice & snow to salmon & berries. Please check it out. #akwx #Alaska #Climate #ClimateChange @climatologist49.bsky.social
uaf-accap.org/alaskas-chan...
uaf-accap.org/alaskas-chan...
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This is a good piece and underscores the importance of adaptation not only to protect lives and livelihoods *today* but to also create political space and support for mitigation policies.
theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...
theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...
A ‘doom loop’ of climate change and geopolitical instability is beginning
Climate change is driving inflation and instability, which harms climate action. But it’s not too late to escape the doom loop.
theconversation.com
December 11, 2024 at 1:06 AM
This is a good piece and underscores the importance of adaptation not only to protect lives and livelihoods *today* but to also create political space and support for mitigation policies.
theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...
theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...
insane map of public saunas in finland. probably one of the reasons why Finland is the happiest country in the world.
December 13, 2024 at 11:52 PM
insane map of public saunas in finland. probably one of the reasons why Finland is the happiest country in the world.
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Sen. Mitch McConnell, the former Republican leader and a polio survivor, issued a statement in support of the polio vaccine, hours after The New York Times reported that the lawyer for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned regulators to withdraw the vaccine from the market. nyti.ms/4iwSCbV
McConnell Defends Polio Vaccine, an Apparent Warning to RFK Jr.
“Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous,” said the former Republican leader, who is a polio survivor.
nyti.ms
December 13, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Sen. Mitch McConnell, the former Republican leader and a polio survivor, issued a statement in support of the polio vaccine, hours after The New York Times reported that the lawyer for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned regulators to withdraw the vaccine from the market. nyti.ms/4iwSCbV
a bold plan. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/12/...
A controversial plan to refreeze the Arctic is seeing promising results. But scientists warn of big risks | CNN
Deep in the Canadian Arctic, scientists and entrepreneurs brave sub-zero temperatures, whipping winds and snowstorms to drill holes through the sea ice to pump out the seawater below and freeze it on ...
amp.cnn.com
December 13, 2024 at 7:59 PM
a bold plan. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/12/...
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A new book seeks to reveal the conflicting ways in which America attempted to control the sale of sex, both in domestic contexts and overseas, when it was determined that American interests were at stake.
How the United States Tried to Get on Top of the Sex Trade
Why should American exceptionalism end at the red-light district?
www.newyorker.com
December 12, 2024 at 8:57 PM
A new book seeks to reveal the conflicting ways in which America attempted to control the sale of sex, both in domestic contexts and overseas, when it was determined that American interests were at stake.
Recently, the USCGC Bertholf (WMSL-750) and the USCGC Healy (WAGB 20) met at sea near Unimak Pass, Alaska.
December 12, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Recently, the USCGC Bertholf (WMSL-750) and the USCGC Healy (WAGB 20) met at sea near Unimak Pass, Alaska.
Political debate over Syrian refugees is only going to increase www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Europe Asks: Is It Time for Syria’s Refugees to Go Home?
While governments urge caution, calls are rising across Europe for Syrians who fled the Assad regime to return.
www.wsj.com
December 11, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Political debate over Syrian refugees is only going to increase www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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The beloved monarch butterfly has seen such a troubling decline in its population that US wildlife officials announced a proposal to help protect the species.
Read more: cnn.it/4f7MVOB
Read more: cnn.it/4f7MVOB
December 11, 2024 at 2:17 AM
The beloved monarch butterfly has seen such a troubling decline in its population that US wildlife officials announced a proposal to help protect the species.
Read more: cnn.it/4f7MVOB
Read more: cnn.it/4f7MVOB
The impact of climate change on the Arctic appears to be once again surpassing previous expectations. www.ft.com/content/63fb...
Climate graphic of the week: First ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean may come before 2030, study shows
Latest findings bring forward possible date and follow dramatic sea ice loss around north pole recorded since 1980s
www.ft.com
December 10, 2024 at 5:21 PM
The impact of climate change on the Arctic appears to be once again surpassing previous expectations. www.ft.com/content/63fb...
