Arkiv for kategorien ‘Circum-Arctic Resources’


Ice levels, rule changes to boost Arctic northern sea route

torsdag, 30. maj 2013

Reuters: Shipping along the Arctic northern sea route is set to grow more than 30-fold over the next eight years…

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Arctic Biodiversity Assessment

fredag, 17. maj 2013

arctic biodiversity

The Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), the biodiversity working group of the Arctic Council has released the “Arctic…

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White House warned on imminent Arctic ice death spiral

fredag, 3. maj 2013

guardian: Senior US government officials are to be briefed at the White House this week on the danger of an…

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Arctic Sea Ice minimum, sept 1979 -sept 2012.

mandag, 29. april 2013

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Arctic News: Above a tilted screenshot from the animation below, by Andy Lee Robinson, of Arctic Sea Ice minimum volumes…

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Interactive Map of the Arctic

torsdag, 11. april 2013

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Greenpeace: Into the Arctic is a digital, interactive map we just launched today with the North Pole at its centre.…

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The ten lowest maximums in arctic sea ice have occurred in the last ten years .

tirsdag, 26. marts 2013

arctic sea ice 2013 march

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2012/05/daily-image/

NSIDC: Arctic sea ice reached its maximum extent for the year on March 15 at 15.13 million square kilometers (5.84…

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Opening the Northern Sea Route administration

torsdag, 21. marts 2013

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BarentsObs: From an office in downtown Moscow, 15 people will regulate traffic along Russia’s Northern Sea Route.

A decree signed this…

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CryoSat reveals major loss of arctic ice

onsdag, 13. februar 2013

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ESA: An international team of scientists using new measurements from ESA’s ice mission has discovered that the volume of Arctic…

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Polar Bear Researchers Urge Governments to Act Now and Save the Species

mandag, 11. februar 2013

Polar Bears International: A University of Alberta polar bear researcher along with eleven international co-authors, including Polar Bear International’s chief…

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Many voices at the table

mandag, 11. februar 2013

The Economist: AS the arctic melts, the politics of the region are hotting up. Today, the arctic council includes Singapore,…

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A new approach to assessing future sea level rise from ice sheets

mandag, 7. januar 2013

Bristol University: Future sea level rise due to the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets could be substantially…

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TIMELINE: Documenting Shell’s 2012 Arctic Drilling Debacle

lørdag, 5. januar 2013

ThinkProgress: This week’s grounding of Shell’s enormous Kulluk drilling rig near Kodiak Island, Alaska has not inspired confidence in its…

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The melting Arctic

torsdag, 3. januar 2013

EEA: The extent of the sea ice in the Arctic reached a new record low in September 2012. Climate change…

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Drifting Shell drill ship grounds on rocks off Alaska

onsdag, 2. januar 2013

(Reuters) – A large drill ship belonging to oil major Shell ran aground off Alaska on Monday night after drifting…

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2012 Arctic Report Card

onsdag, 5. december 2012

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NOAA: Arctic continues to break records in 2012: Becoming warmer, greener region with record losses of summer sea ice and…

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Clearest evidence yet of polar ice losses

fredag, 30. november 2012

ESA 2012

ESA: After two decades of satellite observations, an international team of experts brought together by ESA and NASA has produced…

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China adopts 
low-key approach to secure economic interests in the arctic, says SIPRI

torsdag, 29. november 2012

SIPRI: (Stockholm, 27 November 2012) Aware of the suspicions some countries have about its intentions in the Arctic, China is…

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46 vessels through Northern Sea Route

søndag, 25. november 2012

Barents Observer: The 2012 navigation season on the Northern Sea Route is coming to an end. Never before have so…

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A Quest to Document Earth’s Disappearing Glaciers

torsdag, 1. november 2012

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Yale Environment 360: For James Balog, it all began with a 2005 National Geographic assignment to photograph the world’s rapidly…

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Animated graphics show records broken in levels of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice

tirsdag, 9. oktober 2012

New Scientist: Last month saw unprecedented conditions in both Arctic and Antarctic. The animations below show the average extent of…

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Loss of Arctic Sea Ice … and of a ‘Giant Parasol’

onsdag, 3. oktober 2012

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Yale forum on climate change

Yale: A new video produced by independent videographer Peter Sinclair for The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media…

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High-Arctic Heat Tops 1,800-Year High

lørdag, 29. september 2012

LDEO: Summers on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard are now warmer than at any other time in the last 1,800…

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Arctic Sea Ice: What, Why, And What Next

mandag, 24. september 2012

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ClimateProgress: What’s happening in the Arctic? Why is it happening? And does it matter for the bulk of us who…

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Visualizing 2012’s Record Arctic Sea Ice Melt

lørdag, 22. september 2012

Climate Central: The National Snow and Ice Data Center announced on September 19 that Arctic sea ice had reached its…

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Arctic sea ice extent settles at record seasonal minimum

onsdag, 19. september 2012

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NSIDC: On September 16, Arctic sea ice appeared to have reached its minimum extent for the year of 3.41 million…

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Race Is On as Ice Melt Reveals Arctic Treasures

onsdag, 19. september 2012

The New York Times: At stake are the Arctic’s abundant supplies of oil, gas and minerals that are, thanks to…

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How to teach … Polar meltdown

tirsdag, 18. september 2012

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This week the Guardian Teacher Network has resources related to climate change and the Arctic meltdown. Enjoy.

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Possible consequences for an ice-free Arctic Ocean

mandag, 17. september 2012

Biology Letters: Recent studies predict that the Arctic Ocean will have ice-free summers within the next 30 years. This poses…

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As Sea Ice Fades, The Arctic Becomes A Nautical Highway

fredag, 7. september 2012

Climate Central. The timing couldn’t have been better: just a week or so after scientists announced the greatest meltback of…

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Crucial risk management issues in Arctic operations

fredag, 31. august 2012

DNV : A new study about crucial risk management issues relating to Arctic operations is released by DNV and the Fridtjof…

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Carbon Release from Collapsing Coastal Permafrost in Arctic Siberia

torsdag, 30. august 2012

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ScienceDaily — In this week’s issue of Nature a study led by Stockholm University, with collaborators from Russia, US, UK, Switzerland, Norway, Spain…

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Arctic sea ice breaks lowest extent on record

tirsdag, 28. august 2012

nasa ice polar aug 2012

NASA:  According to scientists from NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colo., the…

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2012: The ‘Goliath’ melting year

torsdag, 16. august 2012

Greenland Melting: Melting in Greenland set a new record before the end of the melting season. Over the past days,…

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Arctic sea ice extent, August 2012

onsdag, 15. august 2012

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NSIDC: Arctic sea ice extent for August 13, 2012 was 4.90 million square kilometers (1.9 million square miles), 450,000 square…

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Aerial Photographs Reveal Late–20th-Century Dynamic Ice Loss in Northwestern Greenland

torsdag, 2. august 2012

ScienceDaily: Despite the current and rapid melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, it remains far from certain just when we…

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Where Did All the Ice Go? The Media’s Coverage of the Greenland Melt Event

torsdag, 26. juli 2012

The Atctic Institute: Earlier this week the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released a press statement describing an unusual…

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Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt

onsdag, 25. juli 2012

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Extent of Greenland ice melt, July 8-12

NASA: For several days this month, Greenland’s surface ice cover melted over a larger…

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Glacier Break Creates Ice Island Twice Size of Manhattan

tirsdag, 17. juli 2012

University of Delaware: An ice island twice the size of Manhattan has broken off from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, according to…

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U.S. to Open More of the Arctic Ocean to Exploration as Part of 5-Year Drilling Plan

fredag, 6. juli 2012

for rent

The Arctic Institute: While Shell is preparing for the start of its drilling activities in the Alaskan Arctic in July…

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Record low Arctic sea ice – first tankers sail

fredag, 29. juni 2012

Barents Obs: Two first oil-tankers left Murmansk for record early voyage along the Northern Sea Route as the Arctic sea…

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The melting of the Arctic is both a blessing and a curse

lørdag, 16. juni 2012

Arctic ressources

The Economist, Daily chart

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Dansk/grønlandsk krav på kontinentalsokkel syd for Grønland indgivet til FN

lørdag, 16. juni 2012

A76: Regeringen har sammen med Grønlands Selvstyre den 14. juni 2012 til Kommissionen for Kontinentalsoklens Grænser (CLCS) afleveret videnskabelig dokumentation…

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Massive algal blooms under Arctic sea ice

tirsdag, 12. juni 2012

A shifting Arctic

Standford: While the discovery marks the first direct observation of an under-ice bloom, the conditions that allow for…

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Oil rush in the Arctic gambles with nature and diplomacy

torsdag, 7. juni 2012

Guardian: In Svalbard politicians and scientists talk of global warming and a low carbon economy. Outside, the drilling rigs are…

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Russia’s Hidden ‘Arctic Nightmare’

lørdag, 26. maj 2012

HuffPost: Oil from Russian drilling operations gushes from damaged pipelines directly into local rivers. Trees are left dead and black.…

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Climate Change & International Security: The Arctic as a Bellwether

fredag, 25. maj 2012

C2ES: In its most recent assessment of global climate change, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences concluded, “A strong body…

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Precise Data On Arctic Sea Ice Thickness

onsdag, 25. april 2012

ESA: After nearly a year and a half of operations, CryoSat has yielded its first seasonal variation map of Arctic…

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Arctic brings unique risks and challenges, says Lloyd’s report

torsdag, 12. april 2012

The Arctic region is undergoing rapid change, both in terms of climate and economic development.  According to Lloyd’s latest Risk Insight…

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Arctic oil rush will ruin ecosystem, warns Lloyd’s of London

torsdag, 12. april 2012

Guardian: lloyds of London, the world’s biggest insurance market, has become the first major business organisation to raise its voice…

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NRC Releases Report on the State of Polar Regions

fredag, 6. april 2012

U.S. National Research Council released a synthesis of reports from thousands of scientists in 60 countries who took part in the…

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