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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Author: Irene Quaile
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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Ice-Blog:: Melting glacier risk to seabed ecosystem
On my first visit to the Arctic in 2007, I went out into the Kongsfjord at Ny Alesund, Spitsbergen, with
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Ice-Blog: Farewell to ‘Last Ice’ victims
Ice Blog readers may remember the story of the two ice researchers and polar explorers who died when they broke
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Ice-blog: Arctic plastic “garbage patches”
There are a lot of things you might want to discover on a research cruise in the Arctic. Chunks of
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Ice-Blog: Ice melt to motivate whizzkids?
When it comes to rousing young people’s interest in climate change, the Arctic and Antarctic seem to be a good
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Ice-Blog: “People power”, Shell and the Arctic
This week’s announcement that Shell is abandoning its controversial Arctic oil exploration for the “foreseeable future” provoked a wide spectrum
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