Norilsk, Arctic Russia is world’s largest sulfur dioxide emissions hotspot: report
1.9 million tons of sulfur dioxide from the chimneys in Norilsk, a city in Arctic Russia, were blowing over the
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NASA
Research project seeks to understand climate change impacts in North American Arctic
A group of Canadian and U.S. scientists backed by a NASA aircraft packed with sophisticated remote sensing equipment have converged
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Arctic Canada: Nunavut’s Mars training ground now available on Google Street View
The closest anyone on Earth can get to Mars right now may be with a visit to a 23-million-year old
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2018 was the 4th-warmest year on record, NOAA and NASA reveal
It was another record warm year for Earth. On Wednesday, scientists from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Finnish researcher’s animation shows climate warming at startling speed
Global climate change is showing no signs of slowing down anywhere in the world, according to special researcher Antti Lipponen
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New Finnish app tests your astronaut skills
The Finnish startup Space Nation has unveiled a smartphone app — Space Navigator — that it says will help anyone
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Polar sea ice: growth in south, loss in north
Two poles, two extremes Polar sea ice extent in the Arctic has reached its summer minimum for the year according
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Alaska tundra has become a carbon emitter rather than carbon sink, study finds
The tundra of Alaska and other Arctic regions once soaked up atmospheric carbon and locked it in the frozen ground, reducing
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Ice-Blog: Can environmentalists trump Trump’s climate plans?
When it comes to the latest data on the state of the Arctic sea ice, the Greenland ice sheet or
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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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First half of 2016 breaks heat records, Arctic sea ice reaches lowest levels: NASA
The first six months of 2016 were the planet’s warmest since meteorologists started keeping records in the late 19th century,
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Greening of Arctic, browning of boreal forest
Scientists and residents of Canada’s far north have been noting changes in the Arctic for many years: more plants, more shrubs
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New model predicts flow of Greenland’s glaciers
Greenland’s glaciers are shedding ice at faster rates, dumping mass into ocean waters and driving up sea levels. But those
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Thinner Arctic ice enabling new phytoplankton blooms
Reduced ice cover is stimulating a new phenomenon in the Arctic — extra blooms of phytoplankton occurring in the fall,
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Snowpack atop Arctic sea ice has dwindled since 1950s, study says
Snow atop Arctic sea ice has thinned dramatically since the mid-20th century, declining by more than a third in the
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