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White killer whales were a legend – now they are everywhere

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White killer whales were a legend – now they are everywhere

White orcas are so rare, there was once only one. Now they are being spotted more frequently – and the reason is not good news

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caribou carcass

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See the Alaskan village that voted to flee climate change

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First Americans must have arrived by sea, not via Alaska

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First Americans must have arrived by sea, not via Alaska

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Plastic bag floating in the ocean

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UK’s plastic rubbish ends up in fragile Arctic ecosystems

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seed bank

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Face to face in the Arctic with a terrifying new sublime

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An iceberg near an oil rig

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Sonar to listen for moving icebergs near Arctic oil platforms

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A red knot, which is brown, on the shoreline, with a white clam in its bill

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Earlier ice melt in the Arctic cuts survival of birds in Africa

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An Earth made verdant by greenhouse gases brings its own dangers

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An Earth made verdant by greenhouse gases brings its own dangers

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Looks like mud pile on some mud, with a couple of tiny spiders quite far away. It's the Arctic sea floor, so not that exciting I guess

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New Arctic life on barren seabed thrives on methane jets

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Water drips into the sea from an ice shelf

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Record early ice melt in Greenland due to freak warm weather

Greenland's ice usually doesn't start melting much until mid-May. This April’s temperatures above 10 °C have led a tenth of the ice there to start melting already

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Boaty McBoatface: where Monty Python meets serious science

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Polar wildlife under threat as ice melts and makes seas brighter

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