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The meeting will take place Wednesday, according to Harris' office.

North of Alaska, the deepest part of the Arctic Ocean goes more than a mile down and is locked in ice. An international team of scientists is probing this so-called Hidden Ocean, from a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker. NPR's Richard Harris sends an audio postcard from the expedition.

The same glacier "calved" another huge iceberg in 2010. Greenland is changing quickly, experts warn. Melting there will put more upward pressure on sea levels.

Researchers simulate changes in sea ice and determine that regular ocean passages will be possible by mid-century.

One day after being told the ship they're now on might have to assist another stranded vessel, the explorers have been told their trip can continue. The stranded icebreaker says it is not in distress and can wait for conditions to improve.

This summer has seen a sharp increase in the number of Russian oil tankers shuttling crude to ports in China via Polar waters. Climate change means there's less ice for the vessels to navigate.

A winter storm is expected to wallop a huge chunk of the U.S. from the southwest, into the Plains, the Deep South, and the eastern seaboard. Heavy snow, ice, sleet and freezing rain are forecast.

Months behind the rest of the country, spring is advancing across Alaska. And a contest that has residents guess the date of river ice breakup is showing a trend toward earlier and earlier melt.

The mood in Minneapolis after a fatal shooting by an ICE agent, Portland officials call uptick in ICE shootings a "pattern of violence," Trump says the U.S. could be "running" Venezuela for years.

Maya James and Cheyenne Walker co-founded the Howard University Ice Skating Organization, the first figure skating team at a Historically Black College or University.