Blog: Landmark UCLA study reveals melting of Greenland ice sheet from top to bottom
Many scientists have studied how the glaciers and big chunks of ice breaking off the edges of the Greenland ice sheet are
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Ice-Blog: Arctic Ocean – “Mare incognitum”
As I continue to prepare for my trip to Svalbard and the Arctic waters around the archipelago, into the Polar
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Alaska’s Harding Icefield loses mass
The huge Harding Icefield on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula shed some of its mass over the past year and Exit Glacier,
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Uncovering the mysteries of Sweden’s mountains
Scientists are just finished drilling Sweden’s deepest hole, and they hope it will reveal secrets about how the Himalayas were
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Asia at the Poles – Spotlight: India
This story is part of an occasional Eye on the Arctic series looking at Arctic science and business from the
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Ice-Blog: UN Bonn climate talks
The delegates to the UN climate meeting currently taking place here in Bonn are receiving an urgent appeal from polar
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Blog: Reflections on 8th international congress of Arctic social sciences
In the logging town-turned service center of Prince George, British Columbia, close to 500 people descended upon the University of
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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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U.S.-Russia tensions create worries for Arctic scientists
For a week in June, about 20 Russian emergency-management experts and scientists and their U.S. counterparts were planning to tour
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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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Genetic studies of polar bears’ past raises questions about their future
Today’s polar, brown and black bears are the descendants of common ancestors that first began to split off into different
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Ice-Blog: Kids, POPS and Arctic Science
Norway, believe it or not, is having problems recruiting scientists and qualified personnel for the Arctic. The generous education system
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Ice-Blog: Polar regions hit by ocean acidification
Did you notice much about the problem of CO2 in the oceans in the (already minimal in most places) coverage
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Muskoxen on the move in Northwest Alaska
In 2009, researchers attached 121 radio-tracking collars to adult female muskoxen in Northwest Alaska, part of an in-depth study intended
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