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: 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: 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: 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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New guidelines for polar shipping
As more and more ships travel through polar waters, new training guidelines for their masters, navigators, and crews have been
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Ice-Blog: Acid Arctic Ocean and Russell Brand?
Is ocean acidification a term you are familiar with? If you are a regular Ice Blog reader, I would like
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IMO completes Polar Code environmental rules
The UN International Maritime Organization has drafted the environmental regulations chapter for the Polar Code, a binding set of regulations
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U.S. icebreaker fleet will need makeover by about 2020, Coast Guard says
The U.S. Coast Guard’s fleet of two operating Arctic-class icebreakers will be sufficient — if barely so — for about
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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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Do polar bears and penguins live in Sweden?
Some myths are a lot more difficult to upend than others – and this particular one seems to be immortal
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Ice-Blog: Climate talks at glacial place?
Who would have believed it? It has been a long time since the routine UN climate talks in Bonn aroused
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Ice-Blog: UN Bonn climate talks
The delegates to the UN climate meeting currently taking place here in Bonn are receiving an urgent appeal from polar
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Ice-Blog: Cryosphere in Crisis?
You can’t say the latest research results on the thinning of the West Antarctic ice sheet didn’t make the media.
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Ice-Blog: Will the Antarctic share the Arctic’s fate?
While the Arctic is melting twice as fast as the rest of the planet, and protests continue against the race
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