Ice-Blog: Time to cruise the Northwest Passage?
When I came across a story about a sold-out cruise through the North-West Passage planned for this summer on a
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Ice-Blog: Arctic future – not so permafrost
“A glance into the future of the Arctic” was the title of a press release I received from theAlfred Wegener
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Ice-Blog: Trudeau and Obama’s Arctic endeavours
Sometimes there are pleasant surprises to end the week. An announcement by the U.S. and Canadian leaders that they are
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Ice-Blog: Arctic winter: warm, wet, weird
Here in Germany, the winter has seemed strange enough. We had flowers in bloom at Christmas, and people sneezing with
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Unbaking Alaska?
When I first went to Alaska in 2008, “Unbaking Alaska“ was the title of the reporting project on how climate
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Ice-Blog: Rising seas culprit – ice or heat?
My attention was caught this week by a study that ascertained that thermal expansion accounts for a much greater share
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Ice-Blog: Record permafrost erosion in Alaska bodes ill for Arctic infrastructure
Sitting in my office on the banks of the river Rhine, I am trying to imagine what would happen if
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Ice-Blog: Anthropocene -No ice age – more blizzards?
If you are sitting somewhere on the East Coast of the USA, struggling to cope with 30 inches of snow,
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Ice-Blog: Cloudy skies speed up Greenland melt
With Greenland known to be one of the main contributors to global sea level rise, mainly through increased meltwater runoff,
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Ice-Blog: Greenland ice a chute to rising seas?
As I checked through the news agencies to keep tabs on what’s been happening with Greenland as 2016 kicks off,
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Ice-Blog: Arctic climate – positive narrative?
As 2015 draws to a close, the NOAA report card on the state of the Arctic and a substantial new
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Ice-Blog: Paris – A COP-out for Arctic Peoples?
On a recent edition of DW’s Living Planet programme, Lakeidra Chavis reported on the effect of melting permafrost on indigenous
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Ice-Blog: Can Paris avert threat to cryosphere?
To those of us who work on polar subjects, there is no question about the relevance of the cryosphere to
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Ice-Blog: Energy giant sued for climate change
For the first time ever in Europe, a company is being sued for causing climate change. Essen, in Germany’s famous
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Ice-Blog:: Arctic residents in hot water
At the swimming club last weekend, one of my fellow swimmers complained the water was too warm. She said she
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