As China adapts to a melting Arctic, Shanghai prepares for the worst
China’s claims to be a near-Arctic state is not all about a Polar Silk Road and access to natural resources,
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Glacier-fed rivers in Arctic Canada sucking carbon dioxide out of the air: study
New research suggests glacier-fed rivers in Canada’s North are sucking up and storing a lot of carbon dioxide from the
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Business boom follows glacier’s retreat in Portage, southcentral Alaska
Portage Glacier Cruises, south of Anchorage in southcentral Alaska, recently marked its 30th anniversary of shuttling visitors by boat to
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Sea levels could rise by up to 2 metres by 2100, new study finds
Sea levels could rise by as much as two metres by 2100 in a worst-case scenario involving melting ice caps
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Canadian Arctic is warmest it’s been in 10,000 years: study
New research suggests Canada’s Arctic is the warmest it has been in 10,000 years — and the temperatures are still
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Climate change could unleash Greenland sand bonanza, say researchers
The sediment left behind as climate change melts Greenland’s glaciers could provide unexpected export opportunities for the territory as the
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Blog – Snapshots from up and down the Arctic in 2018
In 2018, conferences, workshops, and meetings brought me to seven of the eight countries with territory north of the Arctic
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Theoretical physicist helping scientists understand how glaciers flow
While glaciers have been retreating or melting since the early 20th century, little is understood about how exactly large ice
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Dramatic changes to Yukon glaciers a warning for the planet, researchers say
Gwenn Flowers, a glaciologist, trudges back and forth across a vast glacier in southwest Yukon, pulling a radar device mounted
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Blog – When the ice melts, what will happen to Arctic tourism?
Glimmering aurora have returned to light up northern night skies, meaning that summer is drawing to a close. With these
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Melting glaciers are triggering the world’s biggest tsunamis
In October 2015, a powerful wave — as tall as 55-storey building — crashed through a fjord in Alaska, stripping
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Glacier half the size of Manhattan breaks off Greenland
All was quiet on June 22 as Canadian husband-and-wife scientists David and Denise Holland settled in for the night off
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Finnish activists to carve giant Trump sculpture on melting glacier
The Finnish activist group Melting Ice is raising money in order to carve a 35 metre-tall ice sculpture of US
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Teen researchers tell Putin Russia’s ice sheet is quickly melting
In a presentation for the Russian President, two young students describe how new islands are appearing along the coast of
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Ice-Blog: German research station celebrates birthday in Arctic Norway
25 years ago, Germany set up its own Arctic research station in the tiny settlement of Ny Alesund, in the
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