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View over mountains in Kebnekaise National Park in Sweden. (iStock)

Sweden’s glaciers are melting away

24 February 201724 February 2017 Radio Sweden 0 Comments ice, Rabot's glacier, Rágujiekna, research, Science

New areal images show glaciers along Sweden’s eastern border are shrinking with some melting at a surprising clip. Björn Olander, a

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Eklutna Glacier, source of Anchorage’s water, is dripping away — but oh so slowly

20 February 2017 Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments climate change, ice, research

The days are numbered for the glacier that provides most of the drinking water for Alaska’s largest city. Fortunately for

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2016, warmest year on record in Russian Arctic

3 February 20173 February 2017 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments climate change, ice, Norway, Science, Warming

«These kind of temperatures have never before been registered in the region», the country’s Hydrometeorological Center says.

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Ice-Blog: New report sees Arctic melt on course to tip global climate

28 November 201628 November 2016 Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle 0 Comments Arctic, climate, emissions, ice, media, NASA, polar bears, research, resilience, Science, sea ice, Svalbard, Trump, Warming

Scientists say the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard has seen such extreme warmth this year that the average annual temperature could

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Blog: Greenland ice holds Cold War peril

26 September 201626 September 2016 Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle 1 Comment Arctic, Camp Century, climate, Cold War, emissions, Greenland, ice, nuclear, permafrost, research, Science, Sea level, toxic waste, USA, Warming

It sounds like something from a science-fiction novel or a disaster movie. A hidden city under ice, housing 200 people,

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Ice-Blog: Arctic Council – 20 years in a warming world

20 September 201620 September 2016 Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle 0 Comments China, climate, emissions, EU, ice, Norway, oil, Science, sea ice, tromso, UN talks, USA, Warming

Twenty years does not really seem like a long time. But when it comes to climate change in the Arctic, the

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Ice-Blog: German research station celebrates birthday in Arctic Norway

15 August 201615 August 2016 Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle 0 Comments Arctic, AWI, AWIPEV, glaciers, ice, Norway, Ny Alesund, research, Science, Warming

25 years ago, Germany set up its own Arctic research station in the tiny settlement of Ny Alesund, in the

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Ice-Blog: Alpine ice – no more than a memory? New archive of ice cores

7 August 20165 August 2016 Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle 0 Comments Alps, climate, glaciers, ice, Ny Alesund, ocean acidification, Protecting Ice Memory, research, Science, Svalbard, Warming

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

1 August 2016 Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle 0 Comments Antarctic, Arctic, climate, glaciers, ice, New Zealand, South Pole

During my first trip to Australia around 25 years ago, I was standing outside a phone box (there are still

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Ice-Blog: Hottest year – scary, but not for Arctic shippers from China?

26 July 201626 July 2016 Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle 0 Comments China, climate, emissions, ice, rctic, shipping, Warming, weather, WMO

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: Translating COP21 from intent into action… is time running out?

24 May 2016 Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle 0 Comments #SB44, ACT, Arctic, Bonn, climate, Egyptian goose, emissions, energy transition, EU, fossil fuels, Greenland, Greenpeace, ice, Paris Agreement, Renewables, UN, UN talks, UNFCCC, Warming, weather

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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Ice-Blog: Arctic sea ice, Greenland and Europe’s weird weather

12 May 201612 May 2016 Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle 0 Comments ADN, AMS, Arctic Frontiers, Bonn, climate, Duarte, emissions, Greenland, Guardian, ice, Independent, International Journal of Climatology, James Hansen, research, Rutgers, Science, sea ice, Sea level, tromso, UN talks, UNFCCC, Warming

As I write this, I am sitting in a short-sleeved shirt with the window open, enjoying an unusually warm start

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Ice-Blog: Time to cruise the Northwest Passage?

30 March 201620 May 2016 Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle 0 Comments Arctic, Arctic Frontiers, Arctic Institute, climate, emissions, Greenland, ice, Malte Humpert, Northern Sea Route, Northwest Passage, Norway, oil, sea ice, Suez Canal, Svalbard, tromso, Warming

When I came across a story about a sold-out cruise through the North-West Passage planned for this summer on a

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Ice-based Arctic research station in jeopardy: Chilingarov

10 March 201610 March 2016 Trude Pettersen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Arctic, ice, research station, Russia

Unless the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology comes up with 200 million rubles or about $2.8 million USD,

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Ice-Blog: Arctic winter: warm, wet, weird

3 March 201620 May 2016 Irene Quaile, Deutsche Welle 0 Comments Arctic, climate change, ice, winter

Here in Germany, the winter has seemed strange enough. We had flowers in bloom at Christmas, and people sneezing with