Construction is beginning today on the ice road connecting Yellowknife to Dettah on the N.W.T.'s Yellowknife Bay, but a warm November means that it will open in January for the second time since the 2006/2007 season, and the second year in a row.

Winter storm shuts down communication services for the community.

The storm raises local concerns about food security and preparedness for transportation emergencies.

Fast moving winter storm left about 4 to 5 inches of snow in the Hunter Creek area, a tributary of the Knik River.

Without sea ice, our beaches are eroding.

This fall freeze-up was somewhat delayed, not just in the Bering Straits region, but all the way up to Barrow.

The bears that come to the northern village of Kaktovik are climate refugees, on land because the sea ice they rely on for hunting seals is receding.

From an average freeze-up to rewarming and a lack of snow. The winter weather is now gone making the river ice unstable enough to go across to the community of Togiak for groceries household goods, bad situation.

Three healthy snowfalls with progessively more snow each time.

Koyuk River foze solid by Oct-14 by the 28th there was open water.

Sea ice is here and then disapears.

Winter is near, but, it is unusually nice outside these days.

It sounds like something from a science-fiction novel or a disaster movie. A hidden city under ice, housing 200 people, complete with hospital, cinema, church and research labs – and powered by a mini nuclear reactor. In fact it is reality and lies below the ice of north-west Greenland. The building of Camp Century was started in 1959, by US army engineers.

Some unusually high waves hit Grise Fiord, Nunavut, early Saturday morning, damaging the community's shoreline, part of a road and the community freezer.

Downriver from Arctic Village

A critical artery is threatened by thawing permafrost.

Possibly an effect of thawing permafrost.

It’s a vicious cycle: As the weather warms, the Earth’s permafrost is melting, releasing greenhouse gases that are going to make the planet even hotter.

Because ice makes up a good portion of the underground foundation of northern Alaska, thawing has dropped the landscape as much as 3 feet in some places.

For one day last week, the village of Deering needed to use a boat to get to the airport.