Ice-Blog: Arctic climate – positive narrative?
As 2015 draws to a close, the NOAA report card on the state of the Arctic and a substantial new
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Arctic Alaska permafrost thawing quickly
Even as he monitored signs of thaw under the ground of Interior Alaska, permafrost expert Vladimir Romanovsky was giving assurances a
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Warming evident in Arctic air and waters: report
The Arctic is warming at twice the global pace — and Arctic warming is affecting other parts of the world.
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COP21: View from Canada’s Northwest Territories
On the occasion of the United Nations climate change conference in Paris (November 30- December 11), Eye on the Arctic has
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Small grizzlies dominate bigger polar bears: study
North Slope grizzly bears may be little, but when it comes to grabbing morsels of bowhead whale scraps, they are mighty
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Ice-Blog: Can Paris avert threat to cryosphere?
To those of us who work on polar subjects, there is no question about the relevance of the cryosphere to
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Eroding Arctic Alaska river opens window to past
A river on Alaska’s North Slope is eroding along one of its sections faster than that of any river in
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Blog: Arctic Observing Open Science Meeting
Last week in Seattle, the Arctic Observing Open Science Meeting (AOOSM) convened for the first time in seven years. The meeting was
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Ice-Blog:: Arctic residents in hot water
At the swimming club last weekend, one of my fellow swimmers complained the water was too warm. She said she
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Cleaner atmosphere means more Arctic ice melt: study
To protect human health and safeguard the environment, governments and utility companies around the world have worked — successfully —
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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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Ocean acidification strong off Alaska
The Arctic Ocean and the northern Pacific Ocean, along with Antarctic waters, are acidifying faster than the rest of the world’s
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2007 Arctic Alaska fire sparked permafrost thaw
The biggest wildfire to burn on treeless Arctic tundra triggered a dramatic permafrost thaw that unfolded over several years, new research
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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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Blog: Mapping the Arctic’s future while erasing its past
Yesterday, Nature Climate Change published a new paper on mapping the future of the Arctic Ocean. The extent of open water
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