The Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), the biodiversity working group of the Arctic Council has released the “Arctic…
guardian: Senior US government officials are to be briefed at the White House this week on the danger of an…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgiMBxaL19M
Arctic News: Above a tilted screenshot from the animation below, by Andy Lee Robinson, of Arctic Sea Ice minimum volumes…
Greenpeace: Into the Arctic is a digital, interactive map we just launched today with the North Pole at its centre.…
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…
BarentsObs: From an office in downtown Moscow, 15 people will regulate traffic along Russia’s Northern Sea Route.
A decree signed this…
NASA: Vegetation growth at Earth’s northern latitudes increasingly resembles lusher latitudes to the south, according to a NASA-funded study based…
Guardian: Permafrost, soil that has remained below 0C for more than two years, occurs in a quarter of the Earth’s…
Evidence from Siberian caves suggests that a global temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius could see permanently frozen ground thaw…
ESA: An international team of scientists using new measurements from ESA’s ice mission has discovered that the volume of Arctic…
Polar Bears International: A University of Alberta polar bear researcher along with eleven international co-authors, including Polar Bear International’s chief…
Niels Bohr Institute: In the period between 130,000 and 115,000 years ago, Earth’s climate was warmer than today. But how…
Bristol University: Future sea level rise due to the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets could be substantially…
EEA: The extent of the sea ice in the Arctic reached a new record low in September 2012. Climate change…
NOAA: Arctic continues to break records in 2012: Becoming warmer, greener region with record losses of summer sea ice and…
ESA: After two decades of satellite observations, an international team of experts brought together by ESA and NASA has produced…
New Scientist: Last month saw unprecedented conditions in both Arctic and Antarctic. The animations below show the average extent of…
Yale: A new video produced by independent videographer Peter Sinclair for The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media…
LDEO: Summers on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard are now warmer than at any other time in the last 1,800…
ClimateProgress: What’s happening in the Arctic? Why is it happening? And does it matter for the bulk of us who…
Climate Central: The National Snow and Ice Data Center announced on September 19 that Arctic sea ice had reached its…
NSIDC: On September 16, Arctic sea ice appeared to have reached its minimum extent for the year of 3.41 million…
This week the Guardian Teacher Network has resources related to climate change and the Arctic meltdown. Enjoy.
Biology Letters: Recent studies predict that the Arctic Ocean will have ice-free summers within the next 30 years. This poses…
Climate Central. The timing couldn’t have been better: just a week or so after scientists announced the greatest meltback of…
ScienceDaily — In this week’s issue of Nature a study led by Stockholm University, with collaborators from Russia, US, UK, Switzerland, Norway, Spain…
NASA: According to scientists from NASA and the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colo., the…
Greenland Melting: Melting in Greenland set a new record before the end of the melting season. Over the past days,…
NSIDC: Arctic sea ice extent for August 13, 2012 was 4.90 million square kilometers (1.9 million square miles), 450,000 square…
Københavns Universitet: Selv om den grønlandske indlandsis i øjeblikket smelter med rivende fart, er det langt fra sikkert, at vi…
The Atctic Institute: Earlier this week the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released a press statement describing an unusual…
Extent of Greenland ice melt, July 8-12
NASA: For several days this month, Greenland’s surface ice cover melted over a larger…
University of Delaware: An ice island twice the size of Manhattan has broken off from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, according to…
ClimateProgress: The Arctic melt season is well underway, and sea ice extent — a key indicator of global warming —…
Barents Obs: Two first oil-tankers left Murmansk for record early voyage along the Northern Sea Route as the Arctic sea…
A shifting Arctic
Standford: While the discovery marks the first direct observation of an under-ice bloom, the conditions that allow for…
Oxford University: In just a few decades shrubs in the Arctic tundra have turned into trees as a result of…
C2ES: In its most recent assessment of global climate change, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences concluded, “A strong body…
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.…
Yale 360: The loss of Arctic summer sea ice and the rapid warming of the Far North are altering the…
This interactive illustrates how perennial sea ice has declined from 1980 to 2012. The bright white central mass shows the perennial sea…
Persistent warming has caused dramatic changes in the Arctic Ocean and the ecosystem it supports.
Ocean changes include…
Alaska Dispatch: The permafrost has sunk so much in one Northwest Alaska village that bridges are shifting, outdoor stairways hang…
The Independent: Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide –…
