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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Predictions of Arctic summer ice melt come with lots of uncertainty
Every year, as Arctic sea ice thins, scatters and melts, scientists ask: How low will it go? While the long-term
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The Arctic from space: Warming, thaw and melt
In space, everyone can see the Arctic heating up. That’s the message from NASA scientists in a new study published
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US Department of Energy studies particles in Finnish forest
Top American and Finnish researchers are working together to better understand how fine particles in nature affect clouds and whether
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Arctic bacteria discovered breeding at record –15 C
Bacteria that can live and multiply in High Arctic permafrost at temperatures well below the freezing point of water have
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