Ice-Blog: Record permafrost erosion in Alaska bodes ill for Arctic infrastructure
Sitting in my office on the banks of the river Rhine, I am trying to imagine what would happen if
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Greenland
Ice-Blog: Anthropocene -No ice age – more blizzards?
If you are sitting somewhere on the East Coast of the USA, struggling to cope with 30 inches of snow,
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Stop romanticizing Arctic development say indigenous leaders
TROMSO, Norway – Indigenous communities around the North are struggling economically and want development more than ever, as long as it’s done
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Ice-Blog: Cloudy skies speed up Greenland melt
With Greenland known to be one of the main contributors to global sea level rise, mainly through increased meltwater runoff,
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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: 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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Ice-Blog: Paris – A COP-out for Arctic Peoples?
On a recent edition of DW’s Living Planet programme, Lakeidra Chavis reported on the effect of melting permafrost on indigenous
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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:: 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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Arctic artworks featured at Canadian auction
The Walker’s Inuit and First Nations Art auction is known for its focus on Canadian art from the Far North. But
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Ice-blog: Arctic plastic “garbage patches”
There are a lot of things you might want to discover on a research cruise in the Arctic. Chunks of
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Canada to collect more data for continental shelf claim
Canada announced a new scientific survey on Friday to contribute to the country’s Arctic continental shelf submission. “This scientific survey is
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Ice-Blog: Can we still avert irreversible ice sheet melt?
Earlier this week, I was able to follow up my last talk with Professor Stefan Rahmstorf from the Potsdam Institute for
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Blog: The donut hole at the centre of the Arctic Ocean
On June 4, I wrote about issues surrounding the continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean. June 5 was National Donut
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China, defence strategy & drilling: Arctic week in Review
On this week’s news round-up, we bring you some of your most read stories on Eye on the Arctic this
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