One unheralded aspect of the Fukushima crisis is the fact that some of the fuel burned at the Daiichi reactors is made by U.S. companies. In 2010, Japanese nuclear operators …

To validate satellite data for carbon-emissions modeling, researchers this summer torched a jack-pine forest in Canada and tried to ignite a stand of larch in Siberia.

The first comprehensive look at persistent toxic substances (PTS) across the Russian Arctic reinforces what studies in other Arctic nations have revealed: that indigenous peoples in this northern swath of …