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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Ice-Blog: Arctic thaw – carry on regardless?
When a colleague who has a lot of sympathy for those who do NOT accept that humans are responsible for
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Ice-Blog: World Cup Champs for Arctic Climate?
Chancellor Merkel is on her way from the World Cup Final in Brazil to Berlin, where she will address the
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Ice-Blog: Keeping Greenland in focus
Two interesting publications relating to Greenland caught my eye over the past few days. But it has not proved easy
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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: Will the Antarctic share the Arctic’s fate?
While the Arctic is melting twice as fast as the rest of the planet, and protests continue against the race
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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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Ice-Blog: First World Wildlife Day and the Arctic
Maybe like me you were not aware that up to now there had been NO World Wildlife Day. Sometimes I
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Ice-Blog: Why melting Arctic ice leaves us cold!
Since I attended a workshop on “Creating a Climate for Change” in Tromso in January, I have been thinking a
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In warming world, Alaska’s Bering Sea bucks the trend
Like a wayward superstorm in a warming world comes this curveball of an observation: The frigid Bering Sea at the
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Ice-Blog: Greenland glacier at record speed
I have been working on a story about whether the Arctic infrastructure would be able to cope with a shipping
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Ice-Blog: Sun returns after dark Arctic winter
The sun has come back over the horizon. I can understand why people celebrate it here. At the moment there
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Dynamite shakes ice dams on Finland river
On the lower reaches of the River Kymi in south-eastern Finland, authorities have detonated some hundreds of blasts of dynamite
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