Blog: Northern Sea Route – Open for business?
Russia’s Northern Sea Route Administration has received 604 applications for transits this year. The bulk of sailings take place on the
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sea ice
Ice-Blog: The Arctic on the UN agenda
To those of us who deal with the Arctic on a regular basis, the significance of the melting ice for
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Ice-Blog: Arctic Economic Council – and the environment?
I would like to share my thoughts with you on the founding meeting of the Arctic Economic Council, taking place
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Ice-Blog: Arctic methane: time bomb or “boogeyman”?
When the Ice Blog was launched in 2008, one of the first posts from a trip to Alaska entitled “Ice-Capades
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Shipping company using drones in the Arctic
Shipping in the Arctic is no easy task. Distances from southern Canada to the country’s High Arctic is long. Trips
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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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Winter rain becoming new normal in Alaska and Arctic
When winter temperatures in Alaska’s largest city rise, Mike Abbott has reason to sweat. Abbott, chief of operations for the
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Global warming winners? Brant thriving amid changes in Arctic Alaska
Diminished Arctic sea ice and thawing permafrost, phenomena that reinforce the climate change cycle and perpetuate the region’s warming trend,
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Arctic sea ice volume up 50%
The volume of sea ice in the Arctic is 50 per cent higher than it was last fall, satellite measurements
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Missing sea ice data found in crusty Canadian algae
For the first time, scientists have been able to piece together how much sea ice covered the Arctic each winter
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“On Thin Ice” at Warsaw climate talks
Did you know it was the “Day of the Cryosphere” at the Warsaw climate talks COP 19 in Warsaw yesterday?
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Court upholds Shell’s Arctic spill response plans for offshore Alaska
A U.S. District Court judge has upheld the government’s approval of Shell Oil’s Arctic spill response plan. On Monday, federal
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Polar Research Board to deliberate climate issues in Alaska
On Thursday, a committee of the Polar Research Board deliberates in a closed session in Anchorage on what they heard
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