Arctic

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Jon Snow is in Greenland looking at climate change with the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, who believes that this is the greatest threat to mankind’s capacity to live together in harmony.

Snowbound in north eastern Greenland. A snowstorm meant we had to forsake our chopper at a remote heliport, the ever dependable Dash 7 plane got us back to civilisation further south instead.

Sir Paul McCartney has written to Vladimir Putin to calling for the release of a group of Greenpeace activists, arrested after a protest at an oil drilling rig.

Russia has charged five Greenpeace protestors with piracy following a protest on an Arctic oil platform, Greenpeace says.

Greenpeace rejects suggestions its activists engaged in piracy when boarding an offshore oil drilling platform in the Russian Arctic.

The planet’s polar ice sheets are melting three times faster than they were in the the 1990s, a 20-year study of satellite records says.

The second largest block of freshwater ice on the planet melted more this year than ever before, contributing to rising sea levels and even possibly the weather. Tom Clarke sets sail to check it out.

Channel 4 News Science Editor Tom Clarke reports from Greenland.

SV Gambo isn’t your typical research vessel. There’s cod and halibut drying in the rigging and two huskies Ukioq and Nuliaq howling on the decks. Science Editor Tom Clarke reports from Greenland.

After days of drizzle, this morning it started to snow in northern Greenland.

An influential committee of MPs calls for a moratorium on drilling for oil and gas in the Arctic until companies can operate there without harming the fragile polar environment.

Science Correspondent Tom Clarke reports from the Canadian Arctic, where scientists are investigating ocean acidification – one of the least publicised but most worrying effects of climate change.