Alaska & Russia join forces to create database of walrus haulouts dating back 160-years
When Russian explorers sailed that nation’s northeastern coastline along the Chukchi Sea in 1852, they were startled when they encountered
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Warming lake waters defy Jaakko’s Day legend in Finland
Although according to ancient Finnish legend, sea and lake waters begin to cool on July 25, the opposite seems to
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Closure of Canada’s only deep-water Arctic port ‘shocking’
The chorus of concern over the sudden closure of Canada’s only deep-water Arctic port continues to grow as politicians, trade
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Reindeer herders evacuated from anthrax zone in Russian Arctic
13 people are hospitalized and 1,200 reindeer are dead on the tundra in Yamalo-Nenets autonomous region in what could be
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Ice-Blog: Hottest year – scary, but not for Arctic shippers from China?
As I sit in my Bonn office between thunderstorms in a week where we reached a record 36 degrees Celsius
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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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Constant rain threatens potato crop in northwest Finland
The northwest region of Northern Ostrobothnia has been plagued with continual rain now for weeks, and farmers in the region
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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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No increase in methane emissions in Arctic Alaska despite warming temperatures
Three decades of atmospheric monitoring on Alaska’s North Slope show no signs that a feared “methane bomb” capable of accelerating climate
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Beaufort Sea polar bears are spending more time ashore
As Arctic sea ice dwindles, polar bears are spending more time on land. Now a long-term study tracks the dramatic
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Sweden to have 100 percent renewable energy by 2040
A cross-party energy deal has been reached between Sweden’s government and three opposition parties. Sweden will have 100 percent renewable
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Swedish icebreaker to help Canada map Arctic shelf
Sweden’s largest icebreaker will be plowing through the frozen waters of the eastern Arctic Ocean later this summer in part
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U.S. Congress takes big step toward new $1 billion Arctic icebreaker
WASHINGTON — Alaska moved significantly closer to seeing a new Arctic icebreaker Tuesday as a Senate appropriations subcommittee added $1 billion
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Ice-Blog: Translating COP21 from intent into action… is time running out?
After all the hype surrounding the Paris Climate Agreement in December, there is a real danger of anti-climax, of feeling
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Arctic Alaskan city posts record-early spring snowmelt
The northernmost community in the United States posted its earliest snowmelt on record, federal scientists reported. The snow at the
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