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 –…
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…
NATURE: Chemical ozone destruction over the Arctic in early 2011 was—for the first time in the observational record—comparable to that…
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…
ICESat has provided surface elevation measurements of the ice sheets since the launch in January 2003, resulting in a…
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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…
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…
A tanker loaded with 61.000 tons of gas condensate has sailed the Northern Sea Route in only eight days.
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Shell plans to drill up to four wells over two years in the Beaufort, beginning next year.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — In 2007, the largest recorded tundra fire in the Arctic released approximately as much carbon into the…
“Water has a much larger heat capacity than air. If you put an ice cube in a warm room, it…
The melting of the Arctic ice cap in combination with developments elsewhere concerning future energy security are creating scenarios that…
A linked list of documents released during this ministerial is available for your perusal. This list will be updated during…
Scientists have known for decades that global climate change has been having an outsized impact on the Arctic, but according…
The observed changes in sea ice on the Arctic…
AMAP is an international organization established in 1991 to implement components of the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy (AEPS).
Now a programme…
APECS is an international and interdisciplinary organization for undergraduate and…
A report released today identifies 13 of the richest and most vulnerable places in the Arctic Ocean that should be…
The coastline in Arctic regions reacts to climate change with increased erosion…
Marts 2011 havde den næstlaveste isudbredelse siden satellitmålingerne begyndte i 1979. Og beregninger viser, at isvolumnet for årstiden nu er…
A massive, growing pool of icy meltwater in the Arctic Ocean is a wild card in future climate scenarios, European…
The Chinese government plan to send an icebreaker over the Arctic to ship in Iceland this summer. The ship will…
According to a new NASA-funded satellite study, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace…
The freshwater content of the upper Arctic Ocean has increased by about 20 percent since the 1990s. This corresponds to…
As part of a post on the WWF US Climate Blog, meteorologist Dave Eichorn from the State University of New…
During the past few years a number of disturbing reports from the Arctic have…
To trediedele af de permafrosne områder kan forsvinde og sende store mængder CO2 og methan op i atmosfæren, siger amerikanske…
Grizzly bears mating with polar bears. Red foxes out-competing Arctic foxes. Exotic diseases making their way into once-isolated polar realms.…
One- to two-thirds of Earth’s permafrost will disappear by 2200, unleashing vast quantities of carbon into the atmosphere, says a…
Ice is melting at accelerating rates in the Arctic, Antarctica, Greenland, and glaciers all over the world. Arctic summer sea…
Remote sensing data, surface observations and models indicate new records in 2010 for surface melt and albedo, runoff, the number…
