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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On thin ice, North Pole camp folds after only 12 days
The ice became too thin and the cracks too many. This year’s Barneo North Pole base existed only 12 days.
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Ice-Blog: Greenland on the horizon
When I first visited Greenland back in 2009, it was not a place that made the news very often. This
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Winter finally over in northern Finland? Last of the Kilpisjärvi ice expected to melt this week
It might not be the warmest summer on record, but Finland is set to finally see the end of the
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Barneo, Russia’s seasonal North Pole station in the making
Two helicopters are on their way to find a suitable ice floe for the Barneo-2017. Like previous years, the Norwegian
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Sweden’s glaciers are melting away
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
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
«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
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
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
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
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
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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Ice-Blog: Hottest year – scary, but not for Arctic shippers from China?
As I sit in my Bonn office between thunderstorms in a week where we reached a record 36 degrees Celsius
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