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Ice-Blog: Can we still avert irreversible ice sheet melt?

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Posted: Friday, July 17, 2015 at 15:48 — Last Updated: Monday, July 20, 2015 at 18:16
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Earlier this week, I was able to follow up my last talk with Professor Stefan Rahmstorf from the Potsdam Institute for

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Ice-Blog: Polar ice set for six-metre sea level rise?

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Posted: Monday, July 13, 2015 at 18:59 — Last Updated: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 20:02
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Small increases in global average temperature may eventually lead to sea level rise of six metres or more, according to

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Ice-Blog: Icy hotspots in focus at climate talks?

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Posted: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 17:50 — Last Updated: Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at 21:15
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With western Europe sweltering in a record-breaking heatwave, climate scientists are meeting in Paris this week for what is

Preparing for Paris: Staff at UNFCCC headquarters in Bonn are working overtime. (Irene Quaile/Deutsche Welle)

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Ice-Blog: Will Paris conference help the Arctic?

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Posted: Thursday, May 21, 2015 at 16:00 — Last Updated: Friday, May 22, 2015 at 19:13
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Things are hotting up on the international climate talks front, with one event after another telling us how important it

Marc Cornelissen shows climate ambassadors how to drill to measure ice thickness. Alaska, 2008. (Irene Quaile/Deutsche Welle)

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Ice-Blog: “Last Ice” claims lives of researchers

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Posted: Monday, May 4, 2015 at 15:40 — Last Updated: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 20:39
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This post was to be about a trip I just made to St. Petersburg to talk to students and fellow

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Ice-blog: Ice paradoxes from pole to pole

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Posted: Monday, April 13, 2015 at 19:37 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:30
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Returning after a longish break with little access to news and data, there are several ice and snow stories jumping

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Ice-blog: Norway’s polar satellite centre

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Posted: Friday, February 13, 2015 at 19:47 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:30
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Polar orbit satellites monitor what’s happening at the ends of the planet – and, of course, the regions in between.

Data from polar orbit satellites is received and processed at KSAT in Tromso. I was able to visit in January. (Irene Quaile)

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Ice-Blog: Sharing Arctic ocean data

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Posted: Friday, February 6, 2015 at 20:49 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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This week I had an interesting conversation with Professor Karen Wiltshire, who is deputy director of Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute for

The tugs Aiviq and Nanuq tow the mobile drilling unit Kulluk 80 miles southwest of Kodiak City, Alaska on Dec. 29, 2012. (Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis / United States Coast Guard / AP)

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Ice-Blog: Arctic oil – still in the picture

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Posted: Monday, February 2, 2015 at 19:21 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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Was it too good to be true? The euphoria over the US administration’s moves to protect the Arctic National Wildlife

The Tromso debate continues: do we need Arctic oil? (Irene Quaile)

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Ice-Blog: Obama stops oil in Arctic Wildlife Reserve

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Posted: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 13:44 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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Back in Germany after spending a week and a half on the RV Helmer Hanssen off the coast of Spitsbergen, and

Tromso: the gateway to the Arctic. (Irene Quaile)

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Ice-Blog: Climate worry grows at Arctic Frontiers

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Posted: Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 20:47 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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I have followed the past two days, the political section of the Arctic Frontiers conference, with great interest, with the

Outdoor cinema, Arctic style. (Irene Quaile)

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Ice-Blog: Tromso filmfest inspires US Arctic envoy

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Posted: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 20:46 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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Tromso prides itself on being the “capital of the north”. As well as the Arctic Frontiers conference, which is happening this week,

Tromso, the home of Arctic Frontiers. (Irene Quaile)

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Ice-Blog: Arctic Oil – a white elephant?

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Posted: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 16:36 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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The conference: Arctic Frontiers has attracted a record number of participants this year and huge media interest. For the first time in

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Ice-Blog: A good haul for polar night team

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Posted: Monday, January 19, 2015 at 15:48 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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The Polar Night cruise will come to an end on Tuesday, when the last of the scientists will leave the

Icicles on the HH’s nets. (Irene Quaile)

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Ice-Blog: How adaptable are Arctic ecosystems?

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Posted: Friday, January 16, 2015 at 15:03 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 19:31
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The man in charge of this scientific cruise is Stig Falk-Petersen, Professor at the Arctic University of Norway in Tromso