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Author: Irene Quaile

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Blog – 2021: Future doesn’t just happen – It’s what we make it

Irene Quaile
Posted: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 14:26 — Last Updated: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 14:38
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As I started work on this post, on December 23rd the thermometer here in north-western Germany showed 14° Celsius. I’ve

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Blog Environment 

Blog – Some gloom when it comes to Arctic climate, but also a promise of progress

Irene Quaile
Posted: Thursday, December 3, 2020 at 13:12 — Last Updated: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 14:44
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On November 23, Germany’s public service broadcaster ARD dedicated its prime viewing time after the evening news to the Arctic,

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Environment Environment (Russia) 

Ice Blog – When the Arctic ice won’t freeze

Irene Quaile
Posted: Friday, October 30, 2020 at 15:51
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Imagine you head for the North Pole to test your brand-new  giant, state-of-the-art icebreaker – and you can’t find any

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Environment Environment (USA) USA 

ICE BLOG – Not “if” but “when”: Polar bears at risk of disappearing in 80 years

Irene Quaile
Posted: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 12:39 — Last Updated: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 12:42
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Rapid emissions cuts could still ensure their long-term survival. Otherwise, some Arctic regions seem set to lose polar bears by

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Denmark/Greenland Environment Environment (Denmark/Greenland) 

BLOG – Zackenberg revisited – Greenland climate research station under threat from permafrost thaw

Irene Quaile
Posted: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 at 12:36 — Last Updated: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 at 12:52
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In the remote, high Arctic region of north-eastern Greenland, at 74° North, a scattered group of blue and white buildings

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Blog Environment 

Blog – Summer 2020: When the unprecedented becomes the precedent

Irene Quaile
Posted: Friday, June 12, 2020 at 14:52 — Last Updated: Monday, June 15, 2020 at 09:26
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It’s raining. I’m delighted. A strange response from a Scot who has fled the damp British climate. I write this

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Blog Environment Environment (USA) General News USA 

Ice-Blog – Former UN climate chief speaks out against Arctic drilling

Irene Quaile
Posted: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 13:45 — Last Updated: Friday, October 12, 2018 at 09:50
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One good thing about people no longer being in office is they are freer to come out with their own

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Blog Environment General News 

Ice-Blog – While Arctic melts, sweltering Germany hosts UN climate talks

Irene Quaile
Posted: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 at 14:33 — Last Updated: Friday, May 11, 2018 at 15:59
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It’s been a scorcher of a week here in Bonn, Germany. Delegates to the UNFCCC climate talks (one of the interim meetings

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Blog Denmark/Greenland Environment Environment (Denmark/Greenland) General 

Ice-Blog: Greenland on the horizon

Irene Quaile
Posted: Friday, August 4, 2017 at 17:56 — Last Updated: Friday, August 4, 2017 at 18:12
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When I first visited Greenland back in 2009, it was not a place that made the news very often. This

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Denmark/Greenland Environment Environment (Denmark/Greenland) General 

Ice-Blog: Greenland earthquake and tsunami – hazards of melting ice?

Irene Quaile
Posted: Thursday, June 22, 2017 at 16:09
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Following the news over the weekend with a trip to Greenland this summer at the back of my mind, my

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Blog Denmark/Greenland Environment Environment (Denmark/Greenland) General 

Ice-Blog: Why Africa has to worry about melting Greenland ice

Irene Quaile
Posted: Friday, June 9, 2017 at 18:32
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Working for an international broadcaster which has Africa as one of its key target groups, I often find it difficult

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Blog Environment Environment (USA) General USA 

Ice-Blog: Trump’s alternative reality? No warming, cool oceans, intact coral

Irene Quaile
Posted: Friday, June 2, 2017 at 18:12 — Last Updated: Friday, June 2, 2017 at 18:18
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“Irene, have you heard the news? Looks like Trump has pulled out of the Paris Agreement.” While the US President

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ARCTIC COUNCIL 2017 Blog General Geopolitics (USA) Politics USA 

Ice-Blog: Deciding Arctic future in Fairbanks and Bonn

Irene Quaile
Posted: Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 22:58 — Last Updated: Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 23:44
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It is hard to tell where the most influential conversations on the future of the Arctic are being held right

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Blog Denmark/Greenland Environment Environment (Denmark/Greenland) General 

Ice-Blog: Cheap oil from the Arctic? Fake news, says climate economist Kemfert

Irene Quaile
Posted: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 17:06 — Last Updated: Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 18:05
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This week I came across an interesting publication about to come on to the German market. “The fossil empire strikes

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Blog Finland General Geopolitics (Finland) Politics 

Ice-Blog: Finland courts US rivals Russia and China in bid for key role in Arctic power game

Irene Quaile
Posted: Friday, April 7, 2017 at 13:46 — Last Updated: Friday, April 7, 2017 at 13:48
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Finland does not often make its way onto the international news agenda, but as the country prepares to take over

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