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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Author: Irene Quaile
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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Ice-Blog: Can we still avert irreversible ice sheet melt?
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?
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?
With western Europe sweltering in a record-breaking heatwave, climate scientists are meeting in Paris this week for what is
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Ice-Blog: Will Paris conference help the Arctic?
Things are hotting up on the international climate talks front, with one event after another telling us how important it
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Ice-Blog: “Last Ice” claims lives of researchers
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
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
Polar orbit satellites monitor what’s happening at the ends of the planet – and, of course, the regions in between.
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Ice-Blog: Sharing Arctic ocean data
This week I had an interesting conversation with Professor Karen Wiltshire, who is deputy director of Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute for
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Ice-Blog: Arctic oil – still in the picture
Was it too good to be true? The euphoria over the US administration’s moves to protect the Arctic National Wildlife
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Ice-Blog: Obama stops oil in Arctic Wildlife Reserve
Back in Germany after spending a week and a half on the RV Helmer Hanssen off the coast of Spitsbergen, and
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