Ice-Blog: Alpine ice – no more than a memory? New archive of ice cores
It was with mixed feelings that I read an article drawn to my attention by a colleague earlier in the
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Ice-Blog: New Zealand glaciers on the retreat
During my first trip to Australia around 25 years ago, I was standing outside a phone box (there are still
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John Kerry travels to Arctic Norway to witness climate impacts
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry got a firsthand look into how climate changes impact the melting glacier in Kongsfjorden
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Ice-Blog: Greenland ice a chute to rising seas?
As I checked through the news agencies to keep tabs on what’s been happening with Greenland as 2016 kicks off,
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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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Ice-Blog: Energy giant sued for climate change
For the first time ever in Europe, a company is being sued for causing climate change. Essen, in Germany’s famous
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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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UN Secretary-General to visit Norwegian Arctic
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit the the Arctic next week as part of a trip to Norway.
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Blog: Field notes from Greenland – A glacier calves
Part of Russell Glacier just east of the road from Kangerlussuaq up to the ice sheet collapsed into the river
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Ice-Blog: Polar melt confirmed from space
I am disappointed that there was so little mainstream media coverage (please correct me if I am wrong) of a
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Ice-Blog: Human action speeds glacial melting
It might sound like stating the obvious, but in fact it is not easy to find clear evidence that human
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Warming may hurt and help tourism in Southeast Alaska
Global warming could threaten Alaska’s status as one of the nation’s most desirable tourist destinations, warn scientists studying climate change.
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Ice-Blog: Cryosphere in Crisis?
You can’t say the latest research results on the thinning of the West Antarctic ice sheet didn’t make the media.
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Ice-Blog: Greenland melt natural or man-made?
And does it ultimately make any difference? Scientists from the University of Washington (UW) have published a paper in Nature
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Ice-Blog: Greenland’s icecap losing stability
Catching up on the last few weeks of icy news after a spring holiday, my eye was caught by an
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