Arctic
Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin
This week's picks include new Sofia Coppola film Priscilla, and two movies about life in freezing conditions: Society of the Snow and Mads Mikkelsen's classic Arctic. Audio
The race to save the fastest-warming place on Earth
On a chain of Norwegian islands the world's northernmost permanent settlement is heating at six times the global average. So what is being done to save it?
The audacious plan to link the US with Russia
The 'Strait Guys' follows George, and his protégé, Scott, as they join forces with Russian visionaries and dare to try the impossible by connecting the InterContinental Railway through Alaska, to the… Audio
Northwest Passage: 'Just tell me I'm not going to die'
Yachting journalist Rebecca Hayter's book Wild Seas to Greenland details her attempt on the treacherous Northwest Passage with former ocean racing skipper Ross Field. She joins the show to discuss the… Audio
A travel writer's guide to the roads less travelled
Travel writer Mary Jane Walker says people should always travel to the places they tell you not to. She is the author of the 'Maverick Traveller' series of books. Audio
Free diver Ant Williams breaks sub-zero diving record
New Zealander Ant Williams has disappeared 70 metres under the pitch-black Arctic ice, breaking a world record. He spoke with Alex Perrottet. Video, Audio
Peter Wadhams: Preparing for an Arctic without ice
The ice cover at the top of the world is thinning and disappearing at an alarming rate. It's something that can even be seen from space. Peter Wadhams, Emeritus Professor of Ocean Physics at the Dept… Audio
Trump signs Arctic oil drilling order
Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at reducing restrictions on oil drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic in order to "unleash American energy".
Chilling out: making ice in the Arctic
With predictions that the Arctic could be ice-free by 2030, an ambitious geoengineering project aims to create more ice by circulating water using 10 million wind turbines. Audio
Obama bans oil and gas drilling in Arctic
Washington correspondent Harry Horton says Mr Obama has one eye on the future and is doing what he can to stop president-elect Donald Trump from pulling back on environmental bans currently in place. Audio
Obama moves to protect Arctic from oil drilling
Outgoing US President Barack Obama has invoked a federal law to permanently ban new oil and gas drilling in northern US waters.
What's going on in the Arctic?
For the first time ever observed in modern history the sea ice around the Arctic circle shrank during the polar winter. It’s a phenomenon which has alarmed climate scientists like Dr James Renwick… Audio
Mysterious pinging noise in Arctic investigated
The Canadian military has investigated a mysterious pinging sound coming from the sea floor in a remote region of the Arctic.
Beth Shapiro: mammoths, genetics and de-extinction
Kim Hill talks to molecular palaeontologist Professor Beth Shapiro, who is Director for Conservation at the University of California Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, and Research Associate of the Denver… Audio
Sheila Watt-Cloutier: Arctic and Inuit
Sheila Watt-Cloutier is an environmental and human rights advocate who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for her work on how global climate change is affecting human rights, especially… Audio
Following the Mammoth
Archaeological research by Vladimir Pitulko from the History of Material Culture at the Russian Academy of Sciences shows that marks on bones of a mammoth found in the Arctic in 2012 indicate human… Audio
Shell abandons plans to drill for Arctic Oil
The surprise decision by Shell to abandon its controversial plans to drill oil in the Alaskan arctic. The oil company had spent billions on exploration in the area, and had talked up the potential of… Audio
Arctic sea ice grows after unusual summer
The volume of Arctic sea ice has increased by about a third, after an unusually cool summer two years ago.
A Canadian perspective on Russian Arctic aspirations
Associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary, Rob Huebert is an expert on Canadian Arctic Security. He is also the associate director of the Centre for… Audio