Ice-Blog: The Arctic on the UN agenda
To those of us who deal with the Arctic on a regular basis, the significance of the melting ice for
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Ice-Blog: UN Climate Chief on New York summit
Your Ice Blogger has been busy with the New York climate summit around the corner. I was delighted to read
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Blog: Welcoming Barents Observer to Eye on the Arctic!
Today, we are pleased to introduce a new media partner to the Eye on the Arctic project! BarentsObserver.com is a
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Blog: Violence and public health in the North – What about the men?
Much ink has been spilled in Canada the past month on the merits of a federal inquiry on missing and
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Arctic satellite image of the week | Bárðarbunga: of lava lakes and reservoirs
Iceland’s temperamental geography has gone haywire again with Bárðarbunga, the latest volcano to erupt under the Vatnajökull ice cap. It’s
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Putin’s territories: from Crimea to Chukotka
On an overcast day in August, Russian President Vladimir Putin put aside his phone calls to German Chancellor Angela Merkel
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Ice-Blog: Coal, climate, cryosphere
Fossil fuel power plants are still on the increase – committed carbon emissions are rising fast. At first glance you
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Blog: Field notes from Greenland – The muskox economy
“I just had muskox Thai curry at the only restaurant in town,” I messaged my friend after dinner one night
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Ice-Blog: Arctic Economic Council – and the environment?
I would like to share my thoughts with you on the founding meeting of the Arctic Economic Council, taking place
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Blog: Field notes from Greenland – From the glacier to the sea
The Greenland Ice Sheet is constantly in flux and is far from static. The world’s second largest body of ice
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Blog: Field notes from Greenland – The road to the ice
The Greenland Ice Sheet covers 81 percent of the country’s terrain and is the second-largest body of ice in the
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Blog: Field notes from Greenland – A glacier calves
Part of Russell Glacier just east of the road from Kangerlussuaq up to the ice sheet collapsed into the river
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Ice-Blog: Polar melt confirmed from space
I am disappointed that there was so little mainstream media coverage (please correct me if I am wrong) of a
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Blog: Field notes from Greenland: The way to Kanger
Though Greenland may seem to be one of the most remote places on earth, it’s quite centrally located within the
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Blog: Field notes from Greenland – Day 1
In popular imaginings, the Greenland ice sheet is one big, white, flat, frozen piece of ice. That perception is natural
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