2020 shaping up to have second lowest Arctic sea ice extent on record
This season’s sea-ice extent is soon reaching minimum, with a specially sharp decline north of Svalbard and Russia’s Arctic archipelagos.
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Blog – Whose Arctic security is it anyway?
The question of security in the Arctic has become more pronounced in the region of late. This is thought to
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What the Arctic’s transition to a ‘new climate’ looks like
Lawrence Ruben has lived in the Arctic all his life, and is still learning about the changing region. In the
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A big chunk of Greenland’s ice cap breaks off as Arctic shifts to new climate regime
A big chunk of Greenland’s ice cap, estimated to be some 110 square kilometres, has broken off in the far
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Norway’s Svalbard experienced hottest summer on record
Glaciers are melting, permafrost thaws and buildings are sagging. What scares the scientists most is studies of decomposing carbon from
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Are potential Arctic security threats eclipsing urgent action on climate? A new study makes its case
An over-emphasis on narratives around potential resource bonanzas and hard security issues in the Arctic should be recalibrated by policy
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Bering Sea ice at lowest extent in at least 5,500 years, study says
There is less sea ice in the Bering Sea now than at any time in at least 5,500 years. That’s
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Climate change creating vast new glacial lakes, with risk of ‘gargantuan’ floods, researcher says
Meltwater from shrinking glaciers is creating vast lakes that could eventually pose an enormous flooding threat, says newly published research.
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New podcast holds up Canadian Indigenous voices on climate change
A new podcast is bringing together Indigenous perspectives on climate change and decolonization. It’s called Story-telling/Story-listening: Decolonizing Research. It’s the brainchild
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Record-warm Arctic summer fatal to wild reindeer in Russia, say environmentalists
Temperature records are coming one after another across the Arctic. On the 15th August, Russian meteorologists measured 18,1° Celsius at Cape Sterligov
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Green energy retrofits coming to public buildings in Arctic Canada
To help respond to climate change, the federal and territorial governments are putting nearly $27 million into retrofitting public buildings
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Arctic summer sea ice could be gone by 2035, new study forecasts
The Arctic could be completely ice-free in summers by 2035, according to a new study that compared present-day conditions with
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Canada’s last fully intact ice shelf collapses in Arctic
The Milne Ice Shelf in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut has collapsed, and was the last fully intact ice
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U.S. wants to keep the Arctic an area of low tensions, top official
The United States wants to keep the Arctic an area of low tensions, Washington’s newly appointed Arctic coordinator said Wednesday
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Fresh water is pouring into the Arctic Ocean. Climate change is to blame, new study says
The Arctic Ocean is not as salty as it used to be — and now researchers say climate change is
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