Arkiv for kategorien ‘Arctic’


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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Melting Arctic may redraw global geopolitical map

tirsdag, 3. april 2012

(Reuters) – This year’s frenzy of oil and gas exploration in newly accessible Arctic waters could be the harbinger of…

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Signs of thawing permafrost revealed from space

tirsdag, 27. marts 2012

ESA: Satellite are seeing changes in land surfaces in high detail at northern latitudes, indicating thawing permafrost. This releases greenhouse…

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Greenland ice sheet may melt completely with 1.6 degrees global warming

søndag, 25. marts 2012

PIK: The Greenland ice sheet is likely to be more vulnerable to global warming than previously thought. The temperature threshold…

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Gravity is climate

mandag, 19. marts 2012

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GFZ: For the first time, the melting of glaciers in Greenland could now be measured with high accuracy from space.…

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Launching of a new web portal for Greenland Mineral Resources

fredag, 9. marts 2012

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GEUS: The Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum (BMP) and the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) have developed a…

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Linking Weird Weather to Rapid Warming of the Arctic

onsdag, 7. marts 2012

Yale 360: The loss of Arctic summer sea ice and the rapid warming of the Far North are altering the…

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NASA: Thickest Parts of Arctic Ice Cap Melting Faster

søndag, 4. marts 2012

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This interactive illustrates how perennial sea ice has declined from 1980 to 2012. The bright white central mass shows the perennial sea…

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Arctic Report Card: Update for 2011

torsdag, 26. januar 2012

What’s new in 2011?

Persistent warming has caused dramatic changes in the Arctic Ocean and the ecosystem it supports.

Ocean changes include…

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‘Venice of Northwest Alaska’ sinking because of climate change

tirsdag, 3. januar 2012

Alaska Dispatch: The permafrost has sunk so much in one Northwest Alaska village that bridges are shifting, outdoor stairways hang…

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Retreat of Arctic sea ice releases plumes of methane

tirsdag, 13. december 2011

The Independent: Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide –…

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Global Warming Has Pushed the Arctic into a “New Normal”

torsdag, 1. december 2011

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NOAA: Persistent warming has caused dramatic changes in the Arctic Ocean and the ecosystem it supports.

Ocean changes include reduced sea…

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Climate change: High risk of permafrost thaw

torsdag, 1. december 2011

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ScienceDaily: Permafrost thaw will release approximately the same amount of carbon as deforestation, say the authors, but the effect on…

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Arctic ice melt creates mass walrus ‘haul-outs’

lørdag, 8. oktober 2011

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USGS Video

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Unprecedented Arctic ozone loss in 2011

mandag, 3. oktober 2011

NATURE: Chemical ozone destruction over the Arctic in early 2011 was—for the first time in the observational record—comparable to that…

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Canadian Ice Shelves Breaking up at High Speed

torsdag, 29. september 2011

Canadian ice shelves are changing at an unexpected rate, with almost 50 per cent lost in the last six years,…

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New pathway along Northern Sea Route

onsdag, 28. september 2011

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BarentsObserver: Tankers shipping along the Northern Sea Route now choose a new and more northern pathway.  Retreating ice makes it…

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Scientists weighs changes of the Greenland ice sheet

fredag, 16. september 2011

The Cryosphere

ICESat has provided surface elevation measurements of the ice sheets since the launch in January 2003, resulting in a…

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Arctic sea ice extent small as never before

mandag, 12. september 2011

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Credit: University of Bremen

Alerting message from the Arctic: The extent the the Arctic sea ice has reached on Sep. 8…

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Both the Northwest Passage and the Northern Sea route appear to be open

torsdag, 8. september 2011

NSIDC: Arctic sea ice extent averaged for August 2011 reached the second lowest level for the month in the 1979 to…

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Total volume of Arctic ice shrank to record low in 2010

torsdag, 8. september 2011

Alaska Dispatch: The total volume of Arctic sea ice shrank last fall to the smallest amount ever observed during the…

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Arctic shipping routes open

torsdag, 25. august 2011

ESA: 25 August 2011

Satellite measurements show we are heading for another year of below-average ice cover in the Arctic. As…

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First supertanker along Northern Sea Route

onsdag, 24. august 2011

For the first time in history a Suezmax-class tanker takes the short cut from Europe to Asia along the northern…

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Speed record on Northern Sea Route

torsdag, 18. august 2011

A tanker loaded with 61.000 tons of gas condensate has sailed the Northern Sea Route in only eight days.

Continue: Barents Observer

More:

Barents…

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Fed agency approve Shell drilling plan for Arctic

fredag, 5. august 2011

Shell plans to drill up to four wells over two years in the Beaufort, beginning next year.

Shell Offshore Inc. –…

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Largest recorded tundra fire yields scientific surprises

lørdag, 30. juli 2011

FAIRBANKS, Alaska — In 2007, the largest recorded tundra fire in the Arctic released approximately as much carbon into the…

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Acceleration of outlet glaciers and ice flows in Greenland and Antarctica is closely linked to ocean warming

lørdag, 9. juli 2011

“Water has a much larger heat capacity than air. If you put an ice cube in a warm room, it…

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Arctic Energy: Pathway to Conflict or Cooperation in the High North?

onsdag, 1. juni 2011

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The melting of the Arctic ice cap in combination with developments elsewhere concerning future energy security are creating scenarios that…

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Nuuk Ministerial Meeting Documents

mandag, 16. maj 2011

A linked list of documents released during this ministerial is available for your perusal. This list will be updated during…

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Snow, Water, Ice, Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA)

torsdag, 12. maj 2011

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Scientists have known for decades that global climate change has been having an outsized impact on the Arctic, but according…

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Alert: Global sea level is projected to rise by 0.9–1.6 m by 2100

onsdag, 4. maj 2011

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AMPA: Latest science supports an unprecedented rate of change in the Arctic.

The observed changes in sea ice on the Arctic…

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Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme

onsdag, 4. maj 2011

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AMAP is an international organization established in 1991 to implement components of the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy (AEPS).

Now a programme…

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Polar News

tirsdag, 3. maj 2011

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News from a variety of sources dealing with polar related topics.

APECS is an international and interdisciplinary organization for undergraduate and…

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ClimateSignals Arctic

torsdag, 28. april 2011

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ClimateSignals Tag Archive for Arctic

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On thin ice: Vulnerable Arctic treasures identified

onsdag, 27. april 2011

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A report released today identifies 13 of the richest and most vulnerable places in the Arctic Ocean that should be…

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Arctic Portal – Interactive Data Map

mandag, 18. april 2011

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Continue: IPA

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Arctic coasts on the retreat

mandag, 18. april 2011

International studies describe current state of the Arctic coasts.

The coastline in Arctic regions reacts to climate change with increased erosion…

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Lav arktisk isudbredelse og rekordlille isvolumen før smeltesæsonen 2011

lørdag, 16. april 2011

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Marts 2011 havde den næstlaveste isudbredelse siden satellitmålingerne begyndte i 1979. Og beregninger viser, at isvolumnet for årstiden nu er…

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Wild card: Freshwater accumulation in the Arctic Ocean

fredag, 15. april 2011

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A massive, growing pool of icy meltwater in the Arctic Ocean is a wild card in future climate scenarios, European…

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Chinese Icebreaker to reach Iceland over the Arctic

fredag, 15. april 2011

The Chinese government plan to send an icebreaker over the Arctic to ship in Iceland this summer. The ship will…

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Ice loss acceleration

onsdag, 30. marts 2011

According to a new NASA-funded satellite study, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace…

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Arctic Ocean: Significant increase in freshwater content since 1990s

mandag, 28. marts 2011

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The freshwater content of the upper Arctic Ocean has increased by about 20 percent since the 1990s. This corresponds to…

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Veteran meteorologist: How a warmer Arctic disrupts global weather

tirsdag, 8. marts 2011

As part of a post on the WWF US Climate Blog, meteorologist Dave Eichorn from the State University of New…

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Arctic Fever

lørdag, 26. februar 2011

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The Arctic marine and coastal food web.

During the past few years a number of disturbing reports from the Arctic have…

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Enorm udsivning fra permafrost på vej

mandag, 21. februar 2011

To trediedele af de permafrosne områder kan forsvinde og sende store mængder CO2 og methan op i atmosfæren, siger amerikanske…

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Arctic Roamers: The Move of Southern Species into Far North

torsdag, 17. februar 2011

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Grizzly bears mating with polar bears. Red foxes out-competing Arctic foxes. Exotic diseases making their way into once-isolated polar realms.…

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Thawing permafrost will accelerate global warming in decades to come

torsdag, 17. februar 2011

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One- to two-thirds of Earth’s permafrost will disappear by 2200, unleashing vast quantities of carbon into the atmosphere, says a…

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A basic overview of melting ice around the globe

torsdag, 17. februar 2011

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Ice is melting at accelerating rates in the Arctic, Antarctica, Greenland, and glaciers all over the world. Arctic summer sea…

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2010 Melting Record over the Greenland Ice Sheet

mandag, 7. februar 2011

Remote sensing data, surface observations and models indicate new records in 2010 for surface melt and albedo, runoff, the number…

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