Ice-Blog: Greenland melt natural or man-made?
And does it ultimately make any difference? Scientists from the University of Washington (UW) have published a paper in Nature
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Author: Irene Quaile
Ice-Blog: Will the Antarctic share the Arctic’s fate?
While the Arctic is melting twice as fast as the rest of the planet, and protests continue against the race
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Ice-Blog: Arctic oil – confrontations ahead?
The first oil from the controversial Prirazlomnaya offshore Arctic oil platform is on its way to Rotterdam. This, you will
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Ice-Blog: Empowering Arctic Youth
Back in 2008, the Ice Blog was born when I was on a trip to Alaska reporting on the “Climate
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Ice-Blog: Greenland’s icecap losing stability
Catching up on the last few weeks of icy news after a spring holiday, my eye was caught by an
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Ice-Blog: Eco-group questions Iceland oil
Back in January, China’s state-owned oil company CNOOC obtained an Arctic exploration licence for the remote Dreki area, 125 miles
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Ice-Blog: First World Wildlife Day and the Arctic
Maybe like me you were not aware that up to now there had been NO World Wildlife Day. Sometimes I
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Ice-Blog: Birthday gift for Svalbard seed vault
On the Arctic island of Svalbard in the Spitsbergen archipelago, 1500 kilometers from the North Pole, special deliveries are arriving
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Ice-Blog: Why melting Arctic ice leaves us cold!
Since I attended a workshop on “Creating a Climate for Change” in Tromso in January, I have been thinking a
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Ice-Blog: Climate change back on the agenda?
Trawling the media for climate-related stories over the weekend, I began to see some signs that the message might be
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Ice-Blog: Arctic infrastructure cannot keep pace
The Russian response to Greenpeace’s protest at the Arctic Prirazlomnoye oil rig made it clear to a lot of people
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Ice-Blog: Greenland glacier at record speed
I have been working on a story about whether the Arctic infrastructure would be able to cope with a shipping
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Ice-Blog: Why high suicide rates in Arctic Russia?
Back at DW headquarters in Bonn after returning from Arctic Frontiers in Tromso at the weekend, I am sorting out
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Ice-Blog: Kids, POPS and Arctic Science
Norway, believe it or not, is having problems recruiting scientists and qualified personnel for the Arctic. The generous education system
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Ice-Blog: Climate Change – Arctic in denial?
If there is one place you would imagine people would have to be conscious of climate change, it would be
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