Ice-Blog: Why Brexit bodes ill for the Arctic
Today’s Ice Blog post was going to be about permafrost, with the the International Conference on Permafrost drawing to a
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Ice-Blog: Translating COP21 from intent into action… is time running out?
After all the hype surrounding the Paris Climate Agreement in December, there is a real danger of anti-climax, of feeling
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Ice-Blog: Arctic sea ice, Greenland and Europe’s weird weather
As I write this, I am sitting in a short-sleeved shirt with the window open, enjoying an unusually warm start
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Ice-Blog: Time to cruise the Northwest Passage?
When I came across a story about a sold-out cruise through the North-West Passage planned for this summer on a
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Ice-Blog: Arctic future – not so permafrost
“A glance into the future of the Arctic” was the title of a press release I received from theAlfred Wegener
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Ice-Blog: Record permafrost erosion in Alaska bodes ill for Arctic infrastructure
Sitting in my office on the banks of the river Rhine, I am trying to imagine what would happen if
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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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