Ice-Blog: Arctic Council – Business as usual with USA under Trump?
As the USA comes to the end of its two-year Chairmanship of the Arctic Council, the organization’s “Senior Arctic Officials”
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Author: Irene Quaile
Ice-Blog: Arctic summer sea ice cover could disappear with 2C temperature rise
The Arctic sea ice may disappear completely in summers this century, even if the world keeps to the Paris Agreement.
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Ice-Blog: Climate change is causing rapid, deeper and more extensive acidification in the Arctic Ocean
A new study reported in Nature Climate Change this week says ocean acidification is spreading rapidly in the western Arctic
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Ice-Blog: Will new climate scientist on board influence Exxon?
Last year I had an interesting guest in the studio here at Deutsche Welle. We talked for a good half
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Ice-Blog: Some Arctic good news – not #fakenews!
With the environment and climate under constant fire from the actions of President Trump, it is great to end the
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Ice-Blog: Arctic climate (anti-)Trump card in Davos
With the Trump inauguration looming large, we have every reason to be more concerned than ever about the prospects for
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Ice-Blog: ‘Cheers’ to a cool Arctic in 2017
As 2016 drew to an end, the shortest day has passed in the northern hemisphere, and it should normally be
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Ice-Blog: Can environmentalists trump Trump’s climate plans?
When it comes to the latest data on the state of the Arctic sea ice, the Greenland ice sheet or
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Ice-Blog: New report sees Arctic melt on course to tip global climate
Scientists say the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard has seen such extreme warmth this year that the average annual temperature could
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Blog: Greenland ice holds Cold War peril
It sounds like something from a science-fiction novel or a disaster movie. A hidden city under ice, housing 200 people,
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Ice-Blog: Arctic Council – 20 years in a warming world
Twenty years does not really seem like a long time. But when it comes to climate change in the Arctic, the
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Ice-Blog: China, USA climate pledge – all talk, no action?
In a blog post earlier this year, I mused on the danger of everybody sitting back saying, “Yes, we did,”
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Ice-Blog: Olympics over, but Arctic ice still chasing records
The Rio games have come to an end. Summer is drawing to a close here in Germany. It feels more
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Ice-Blog: German research station celebrates birthday in Arctic Norway
25 years ago, Germany set up its own Arctic research station in the tiny settlement of Ny Alesund, in the
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Ice-Blog: Alpine ice – no more than a memory? New archive of ice cores
It was with mixed feelings that I read an article drawn to my attention by a colleague earlier in the
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