Ice-Blog: Anthropocene -No ice age – more blizzards?
If you are sitting somewhere on the East Coast of the USA, struggling to cope with 30 inches of snow,
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Ice-Blog: Greenland ice a chute to rising seas?
As I checked through the news agencies to keep tabs on what’s been happening with Greenland as 2016 kicks off,
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Ice-Blog: Paris – A COP-out for Arctic Peoples?
On a recent edition of DW’s Living Planet programme, Lakeidra Chavis reported on the effect of melting permafrost on indigenous
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Ice-Blog: Energy giant sued for climate change
For the first time ever in Europe, a company is being sued for causing climate change. Essen, in Germany’s famous
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Ice-Blog:: Arctic residents in hot water
At the swimming club last weekend, one of my fellow swimmers complained the water was too warm. She said she
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Ice-Blog: Farewell to ‘Last Ice’ victims
Ice Blog readers may remember the story of the two ice researchers and polar explorers who died when they broke
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Ice-Blog: “Last Ice” claims lives of researchers
This post was to be about a trip I just made to St. Petersburg to talk to students and fellow
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Ice-blog: Ice paradoxes from pole to pole
Returning after a longish break with little access to news and data, there are several ice and snow stories jumping
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Ice-Blog: Obama stops oil in Arctic Wildlife Reserve
Back in Germany after spending a week and a half on the RV Helmer Hanssen off the coast of Spitsbergen, and
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Ice-Blog: Climate worry grows at Arctic Frontiers
I have followed the past two days, the political section of the Arctic Frontiers conference, with great interest, with the
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Ice-Blog: A good haul for polar night team
The Polar Night cruise will come to an end on Tuesday, when the last of the scientists will leave the
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Ice-blog: Unlocking secrets of the polar night
During visits to Arctic research sites in summer, I have experienced first-hand the energy and inspiration that comes from around-the-clock
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Ice-Blog: Arctic investment – still a hot prospect?
As I mentioned in the last post, I talked to various people about the current state of interest in the Arctic,
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Ice-Blog: From Alaska to Ottawa
Ottawa has been the setting for “Arctic Change”, another major Arctic conference this week. It is organised by the research
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Ice-Blog: Berlin Wall – Hope for Arctic?
The statement by veteran Arctic researcher Peter Wadhams that the Arctic could be ice-free in summer as early as 2020
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