ESA: After nearly a year and a half of operations, CryoSat has yielded its first seasonal variation map of Arctic…
The Arctic region is undergoing rapid change, both in terms of climate and economic development. According to Lloyd’s latest Risk Insight…
Guardian: lloyds of London, the world’s biggest insurance market, has become the first major business organisation to raise its voice…
U.S. National Research Council released a synthesis of reports from thousands of scientists in 60 countries who took part in the…
(Reuters) – This year’s frenzy of oil and gas exploration in newly accessible Arctic waters could be the harbinger of…
ESA: Satellite are seeing changes in land surfaces in high detail at northern latitudes, indicating thawing permafrost. This releases greenhouse…
PIK: The Greenland ice sheet is likely to be more vulnerable to global warming than previously thought. The temperature threshold…
GFZ: For the first time, the melting of glaciers in Greenland could now be measured with high accuracy from space.…
This interactive illustrates how perennial sea ice has declined from 1980 to 2012. The bright white central mass shows the perennial sea…
Arctic oil drilling is a dangerous, high-risk enterprise and an oil spill under these icy waters would have a catastrophic…
USGS: For the first time, the U.S. Geological Survey has estimated the potential of undiscovered, technically recoverable onshore shale oil…
University of Zurich: Thawing permafrost will have far-reaching ramifications for populated areas, infrastructure and ecosystems. A geographer from the University…
Feb 17 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell’s bid to drill in the Arctic this summer took another step forward on…
Mongabay: Last year the Arctic, which is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth due to global climate change, experienced…
BarentsObserver: More than 1,5 million tons of goods will be shipped along the Northern Sea Route in 2012, regional authorities…
NATURE: The ‘new oil provinces’ are in the Arctic, which brims with untapped resources amounting to 90 billion barrels of…
Persistent warming has caused dramatic changes in the Arctic Ocean and the ecosystem it supports.
Ocean changes include…
eia: The Arctic holds an estimated 13% (90 billion barrels) of the world’s undiscovered conventional oil resources and 30% of…
Barents Observer: Norwegian gas from the Snøhvit gas field outside Hammerfest can for the first time be shipped through the…
University of Washington : A hemispherewide phenomenon – and not just regional forces – has caused record-breaking amounts of freshwater to…
Alaska Dispatch: The permafrost has sunk so much in one Northwest Alaska village that bridges are shifting, outdoor stairways hang…
China grows hungry for Arctic resources and shipping routes as northern ice melts.
As the Arctic sea-ice melts, the Dragon…
BarentsObserver: Gazprom will start production at its huge Arctic field of Bovanenkovo in May 2012. Continue
(Reuters) – The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Friday conditionally approved Shell Gulf of Mexico Inc’s revised plan…
The Independent: Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide –…
NOAA: Persistent warming has caused dramatic changes in the Arctic Ocean and the ecosystem it supports.
Ocean changes include reduced sea…
ScienceDaily: Permafrost thaw will release approximately the same amount of carbon as deforestation, say the authors, but the effect on…
Barents Observer: This year’s season on the Northern Sea Route was special in many ways. Not only was the route…
Guardian: UK-based oil explorer’s shares slump after controversial £400m drilling programme fails to find commercially viable site
BarentsObserver: Russian authorities have allocated 910 billion rubles (€21.8 million) to the creation of ten centers for search and rescue…
(Reuters) – China has legitimate economic interests in the Arctic, Denmark’s ambassador said on Friday, welcoming partnership with Beijing in…
Guardian: Supertankers and giant cargo ships could next year voyage regularly between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans via the Arctic…
Information.dk: Der er ingen diskussion: Med isens bortsmelten skal olien og gassen nord for polarcirklen hentes op. Putin inviterede til…
Canadian ice shelves are changing at an unexpected rate, with almost 50 per cent lost in the last six years,…
BarentsObserver: Tankers shipping along the Northern Sea Route now choose a new and more northern pathway. Retreating ice makes it…
DMI: En højtrykpræget og tør juni, en lavtrykpræget og ustadig juli, og to våde uger sidst i august blev opskriften…
Scientists from the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) have raised concerns regarding what they believe are erroneous claims of a 15%…
Credit: University of Bremen
Alerting message from the Arctic: The extent the the Arctic sea ice has reached on Sep. 8…
NSIDC: Arctic sea ice extent averaged for August 2011 reached the second lowest level for the month in the 1979 to…
Alaska Dispatch: The total volume of Arctic sea ice shrank last fall to the smallest amount ever observed during the…
Visiongain: The Arctic remains one of the final frontier areas…
DMI:
DMI has at the instigation of the Government in Greenland and oil licensees in Baffin Bay, developed and commissioned an…
* US $3.2 billion exploration program planned for Kara Sea and Black Sea
* Establishment of a joint Arctic Research and…
(Reuters) – At the rim of the Arctic Circle in Canada, gold mining firm Agnico-Eagle is learning how tough it…
Satellite measurements show we are heading for another year of below-average ice cover in the Arctic. As…
For the first time in history a Suezmax-class tanker takes the short cut from Europe to Asia along the northern…
Foreign Minister Lene Espersen presents today together with the the Prime Minister of the Faroe Government Kaj Leo Holm Johannesen…
A tanker loaded with 61.000 tons of gas condensate has sailed the Northern Sea Route in only eight days.
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