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Opportunity and risk come as a package deal as tickets to the Northwest Passage go up for sale. While critics decry the high-end travelers making their way North, their hosts offer another take.
A new report finds that the “staggering” rate of warming in the world’s oceans is shifting fisheries, spreading disease and altering the behavior of many marine species around the world – including in the Arctic.
After the so-called Islamic State killed his son, Khalaf and his family fled their home in Raqqa, Syria for Europe. This is the story of their journey, which has yet to end, as the closing of borders has continued to tear them apart.
HIGH NORTH NEWS – With Prime Minister Trudeau heading south, instead of north, and a cruise ship crossing the Northwest Passage, is Operation Nanook more or less relevant than before?
As debates around the economic consequences of migration make headlines in Europe and the U.S., the second installment of our ‘Experts to Watch’ series looks at prominent people studying this field.
Druze factions in Syria have largely stayed out of the complicated conflict, but recently protest movements have started to grow against the Syrian government in the Druze-majority city of Sweida in the country’s southern province.
As Germany struggles to house more than 1 million refugees, some unusual temporary solutions are being found. Meet the residents of Transit, a three-story barge full of transported lives moored near Hamburg.
From getting formula to hungry babies to teaching women how to run their own businesses, NuDay Syria gives aid and support to millions of Syrians. For the nonprofit’s founder, Nadia Alawa, it’s about helping women and children survive the war with dignity.
An agreement by California to draw less water from the Colorado River to help boost water levels at Lake Mead could accelerate the shrinkage of the already precarious Salton Sea, endangering air quality and wildlife habitat.
Sea ice loss is changing the migration patterns of marine mammals – and is hampering hunters’ access to them. Mammals and hunters may be adapting to the changing climate conditions already, but it’s not clear if they’ll keep pace as the sea ice continues to shrink.
As tensions rise between Turkey and Europe’s leaders, we asked four experts what the future holds for the fraught E.U.-Turkey deal on migrants and refugees.
Utah wants to spend $1.5 billion building dams on the Bear River, the largest tributary of Great Salt Lake. Both industry and environmental groups say it isn’t necessary.
Five years on and the Syrian army and rebel fighters continue to battle for Aleppo, Syria’s largest city. We asked three experts what needs to happen for the stalemate to end.
Native American coastal communities around the U.S. have begun planning moves to higher ground, but worry their ancient ways of life will be lost in the relocation.
We asked two experts to answer key questions about California WaterFix, the state-backed plan to build two giant tunnels to divert Sacramento river flows. Here’s what they had to say.
Since the Syrian refugee crisis, Afghan asylum seekers in Europe have had to work harder to prove their lives are in danger. But for many of the more than 55,000 who applied for asylum in Germany in the past five years, deportation means a death sentence.
Refugees often lose professions as well as homelands. The Refugee Journalism Project in London is helping new arrivals to find work, rebuild careers and revive their skills in a new environment.
The pioneering efforts of a Northern California water agency in 2014 have led to the creation of a first-of-its-kind program that has helped create recycled water fill stations across the state.
As the Syrian conflict enters its sixth year, millions of Syrians are in critical need of medical aid, food, water, shelter and fuel. Here are some organizations that the international community can help as they respond to the Syrian crisis.
With attacks against hospitals still intensifying, Syria’s health system is barely functioning. Shelly Kittleson joins the families forced in desperation to seek medical treatment outside the country.
As shipping patterns change, one town plans to join the emerging supply chain. “Meet the North,” a series that ventures into the lives of some of the 4 million people who call the Arctic home, explores an industrial future in a quiet corner of Iceland.
The global displacement crisis demands more in-depth storytelling, says veteran journalist and teacher Stephan Garnett. He tells Refugees Deeply about a unique student project, the Flight For Life.
Bushra escaped from Iraq, but she and her family remain stuck in a makeshift shelter at Berlin’s former Tempelhof airport. Now the mother of five is expecting again and fears she’ll have to raise her newborn in the shelter’s dire conditions.
Rising temperatures can’t fully explain the ongoing melting of the Greenland ice sheet. A new project looks at how microorganisms are changing the reflectivity of the ice sheet, helping it warm and melt.
While Germany has made significant progress in providing education for refugee children regardless of their official status, more trained teachers, schools and housing facilities are needed.
After a months-long offensive by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, ISIS militants have been pushed out of their northern stronghold on the Turkish border, allowing thousands of residents to return to their homes.
ISIS has been increasing its influence on the local population, creating changes in the fabric of society that could outlive the militant group’s existence, Syrian journalist Jalal Zein al-Deen explains.
As 2 million people are at risk of coming under siege in Aleppo, researcher Will Todman speaks to Syria Deeply about the war economy that has taken hold in besieged areas across the country.
Some scientists fear that the U.K.’s decision to leave the European Union may lead to the erosion of British expertise and international collaboration in the Arctic. Others smell an opportunity to take the lead.
Farah is a young woman living in Syria’s capital city, where she faces the daily struggles of trying to maintain a normal social and professional life in a country being ripped apart by war.
CLIMATEWIRE – Large wildfires are a natural process in some of Siberia’s forest ecosystems, but warmer temperatures and drier conditions may be leading to larger and more ferocious burns that could threaten the forests’ ability to regenerate.
Residents of the now besieged eastern part of Aleppo city have been burning tires in a desperate effort to prevent warplanes from targeting civilians and opposition fighters on the front lines.
SACRAMENTO BEE: The National Marine Fisheries Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have begun re-examining regulations governing the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, raising questions about the twin tunnels plan.
Most tourists never make it to Raufarhöfn, Iceland, but one man wants to change that. ‘Meet the North,’ a series that ventures into the lives of some of the 4 million people who call the Arctic home, discovers one vision of the future on the road less traveled.
Aleppo has long been one of Syria’s most violent battlefields, but despite the ongoing fighting and clashes for control between various warring factions, local councils in opposition-held areas of the city continue to govern.
Several organizations and projects are at the forefront of seeking solutions to the unparalleled levels of global migration. In the first installment of our “Experts to Watch” series, we look at five that are rethinking refugee aid.
The strategy urges federal and regional governments to address historical trauma as well as current social inequity, including poor housing conditions, food insecurity and low rates of education and employment.
Both California and France have recently shifted to more local control of groundwater. There are key differences between the two laws, but both offer opportunities for better understanding of collective groundwater management.
Farah is a young woman living in Syria’s capital city, where she faces the daily struggles of trying to maintain a normal social and professional life in a country being ripped apart by war.
After more than four years of fighting in Aleppo, Syria, forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have effectively fenced in the city’s opposition-held areas. Faysal Itani, senior fellow with the Atlantic Council, explains how the encirclement of Aleppo happened.
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