Ice-Blog: Can we halt Arctic melt? Hard question for UN advisor
I had a very interesting high-profile visitor here at Deutsche Welle this week. Bonn, John Le Carré’s “Small Town in
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Ice-Blog: Why Brexit bodes ill for the Arctic
Today’s Ice Blog post was going to be about permafrost, with the the International Conference on Permafrost drawing to a
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Will climate change remove dry land between Finland and Sweden?
The effects of climate change, including rising temperatures and sea level, can already be seen in the Kvarken, the narrowest
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Tackling Alaska’s $100-million plastic pollution problem
WASHINGTON — Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan turned the focus of a congressional committee toward the mounting problems of marine debris
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Ice-Blog: Arctic sea ice, Greenland and Europe’s weird weather
As I write this, I am sitting in a short-sleeved shirt with the window open, enjoying an unusually warm start
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WWF cam draws 225K watchers to endangered Finnish seal
The World Wide Fund for Nature began streaming live video of a rock in Saimaa lake known to be a
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The US-led Arctic Council: Still trying to get Americans to care about Arctic
When the United States took over chairmanship of the eight-nation Arctic Council a year ago, officials articulated some lofty goals under a
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Canada to submit Arctic continental shelf claim in 2018
Canada plans to submit its Arctic continental shelf claim in 2018 and it is expected to include the North Pole,
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Blog: The EU’s Arctic policy – A means, not an end
Last week, the European Union launched a new integrated Arctic policy. This comes on the heels of a 2008 Arctic
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Arctic sea ice hits new record winter low
Arctic sea ice contracted to a new record winter low this year with the largest declines in the Barents and
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Arctic remains refuge of friendly US-Russia relations
In 1987, in the glow of glasnost, then-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev detailed his vision of an Arctic that would be a
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Ice-Blog: Arctic future – not so permafrost
“A glance into the future of the Arctic” was the title of a press release I received from theAlfred Wegener
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Arctic Council uses Fairbanks meeting to think about the future
Midway through the U.S. chairmanship of the eight-nation Arctic Council, the group is taking time to look at the long-term
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How many observers can Arctic Council handle?
For much of the world, the Arctic used to be overlooked territory, dismissed as an icy and remote wasteland. If
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Warming could release carbon locked in tundra
Year after year, the tundra covering the landscape of the far north has pulled carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
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