If John le Carré were still with us and crafting a novel about the existential threat of our time, the spy hero would be using his or her very particular set ofskills on the front lines of climate change.
The German Research Vessel Polarstern spent a year in the polar north, much of it with its engines turned off so it could simply drift in the sea-ice. The point was to study the Arctic climate and how it is changing.
A top official at the Interior Department has delayed the release of a key study of polar bears in Alaska that could affect oil and gas drilling, according to documents obtained by The Post.
