Tall ice cliffs are slumping and may trigger rapid sea-level rise, study finds
Scientists have found that tall ice cliffs in Greenland are slumping — and this may eventually lead to a more
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Faster ice melt in Greenland could mean stronger hurricanes for North America’s East Coast: study
Ice is melting in an unexpected region of Greenland at a rate that is unprecedented in the past century, according
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Canadian NGO wins Google grant to build ‘Wikipedia of Inuit knowledge’
A Canadian NGO working with Inuit and Cree communities in the rapidly changing Hudson Bay region is one of five
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Putin says climate change might not be human made
On my visit to Franz Josef Land yesterday, I saw photos which indicate that climate change is not necessarily triggered
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Arctic nations team up for shipping emergencies
The eight Arctic nations take responsibility as a whole new ocean for shipping opens up when the ice melts away.
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Ice-Blog: Arctic sea ice – Is the minimum maximum the new normal?
If you blinked, you might have missed it. The confirmation came this week that the Arctic sea ice reached yet
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Ice-Blog: Arctic summer sea ice cover could disappear with 2C temperature rise
The Arctic sea ice may disappear completely in summers this century, even if the world keeps to the Paris Agreement.
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Ice-Blog: Climate change is causing rapid, deeper and more extensive acidification in the Arctic Ocean
A new study reported in Nature Climate Change this week says ocean acidification is spreading rapidly in the western Arctic
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Ice-Blog: Olympics over, but Arctic ice still chasing records
The Rio games have come to an end. Summer is drawing to a close here in Germany. It feels more
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Sixth lowest ice extent in Arctic
The summer Arctic sea-ice melt season is almost at an end. Northern residents in some areas are seeing thin sheens
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