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Like Death, Warmed Over Arctic ice in a 'death spiral' as it hits second-lowest point ever		29 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 5:11 AM on 29 Aug 2008 Summer sea-ice melt in the Arctic is already the second-meltiest since satellite records began, and by the end of the melt season in mid-September, this year could surpass the all-time record low set last year, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. For the second time ever -- the first being last year -- the Northwest Passage shipping route is o ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, news, scientific research (all these topics)

NOAA's Arctic U.S. scouts out territory in Arctic; ice-cover loss could be worst ever		12 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 1:09 PM on 12 Aug 2008 U.S. scientists will head to the Arctic this week on a quest to map the ocean floor, and will collaborate with Canada on a surveying trip in September. The two nations -- and their Arctic-bordering compatriots Russia, Denmark, and Norway -- are scrambling to measure their respective continental shelves, with an eye to claiming as much as they can of the estimated 90 billion bar ...
Topics: Arctic, Canada, climate, climate change impacts, news, oil and gas drilling, scientific research, United States (all these topics)

What's an Ice Chunk Like You Doing on a Shelf Like This? Huge chunk breaks off Arctic ice shelf; 2008 Arctic melt not likely to break record		30 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 7:33 AM on 30 Jul 2008 A 1.5-mile ice chunk broke off the Arctic's largest remaining ice shelf last week. The Ward Hunt Ice Shelf in northern Canada has been thinning gradually since the 1950s, so the break-off was predictable but still relatively significant. "Once you unleash this process by cracking the ice shelf in multiple spots, of cou ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, news (all these topics)

Go With the Floe Russian researchers abandon shrinking ice floe		15 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 3:33 PM on 15 Jul 2008 Russian scientists are evacuating early from their research base on a shrinking Arctic ice floe. Last April, the floe was sturdy enough to build an air strip on. In September, 21 researchers and two dogs arrived, at which point their ice abode measured 1.2 by 2.5 miles. The researchers meant to leave in late August, but will evacuate this week from a floe that has shrunk to a mere 1,000 by 2,000 fee ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, news, Russia, scientific research (all these topics)

You Could Hear a Pinniped Drop Walruses should be threatened species, says litigious green group		28 May 2008	News
Posted at 12:31 PM on 28 May 2008 Having seen no action on a petition from last year, the Center for Biological Diversity says it will sue to force the U.S. Interior Department to consider listing the walrus as a threatened species. Walruses do all of their resting between foraging trips, breeding, and chillaxing on Arctic sea ice, which is rapidly disappearing. And "[a]s the sea ice recedes, so ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, litigation, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Handle With Caribou Caribou numbers declining in Alaska and Canada		20 May 2008	News
Posted at 3:36 PM on 20 May 2008 Hello, and welcome back to The Plight of Arctic Wildlife. Previously we've covered polar bears, narwhals, seals, and walruses -- today we're going to tackle caribou. (Well, not literally.) After years of steady growth, Alaska's largest caribou herd lost 20 percent of its population between 2003 and 2007, according to the latest count. The Western Arctic Caribou Herd now numbers 377,000. Other her ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Northern Exposure Melting Arctic ice poses security threat, says Pentagon		14 May 2008	News
Posted at 10:09 AM on 14 May 2008 Waterways made navigable by melting Arctic ice pose a security threat to the northern U.S. border, says the Pentagon. The shrinking ice cap has led to increased interest in tourism and energy development in the Arctic, and the extra traffic makes the Pentagon wary. "The Arctic is a new area that is important to us because of the changes in ice flows," says Air Force General Gene ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, Department of Defense, national security, news (all these topics)

The Horn of a Dilemma Narwhals more at risk than polar bears, says study		25 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:10 PM on 25 Apr 2008 Polar bears get all the press, but climate change may be even harder on the narwhal, says new research. Narwhals, the whales whose long spiral tusks kick-started the myth of unicorns, top a list of 11 at-risk Arctic marine mammals published in the journal Ecological Applications. Hooded seals, bowhead whales, and walrus rounded out the top five, while ringed seals and bearded seals, which a ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, endangered species, news, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

Movers and Fist-Shakers Alaskan village sues Big Fossil Fuel over link to climate change		27 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 10:35 AM on 27 Feb 2008 The tiny village of Kivalina, built on a barrier reef in Alaska's Chukchi Sea, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against 24 oil, coal, and power companies, alleging that Big Fossil Fuel's greenhouse-gas emissions are contributing to the climate-change-caused coastal erosion that threatens the village's very existence. Kivalina says that the companies should pay for its relocation. The ...
Topics: Alaska, Arctic, Big Oil, climate, climate change impacts, coal, fossil fuels, litigation, news (all these topics)

Bottom Topography U.S. aims to map mineral-rich Arctic seafloor		31 Aug 2007	News
Posted at 9:56 AM on 31 Aug 2007 Update on the race to despoil the Arctic: This week, U.S. Coast Guard researchers set out on their third venture since 2003 to map the mineral-rich Arctic seafloor. There's a lot to be learned about the watery depths; overall, maps of Mars are about 250 times better than maps of the ocean floor. The U.S. is eager to identify underwater mountains and caverns so we'll know just where to stick our dril ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, news, oil and gas drilling (all these topics)

Shrinky-Dinky Do Great Lakes, Arctic sea ice shrinking to record lows		14 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Shrinky-Dinky Do Great Lakes, Arctic sea ice shrinking to record lows It could be a summer of record lows in two of the world's iconic places: the Great Lakes and the Arctic seas. Water levels in Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Superior are well below normal, and Superior could soon hit a record low set in 1926. The U.S. and Canada have undertaken a five-year study that c ...
Topics: Arctic, Canada, climate, climate change impacts, climate science, news, United States (all these topics)

Aren't You Glad You Use Dial? World sweats through warmest winter on record		19 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Aren't You Glad You Use Dial? World sweats through warmest winter on record Congratulations, global citizens, for weathering the warmest winter in the Northern Hemisphere since record-keeping began in 1880. From December to February, combined land and ocean temperatures were 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit above average, says a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study published Friday in Scie ...
Topics: Antarctica, Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, news (all these topics)

But Will They Wear Poodle Skirts? International Polar Year returns, focuses on climate-change research		03 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
But Will They Wear Poodle Skirts? International Polar Year returns, focuses on climate-change research Happy International Polar Year! If you didn't get us a gift yet, don't sweat it -- the fourth-ever IPY doesn't officially kick off until March, and researchers from some 60 countries will actually poke around in the icy Arctic and Antarctic for two years. The last IPY occurred in the late 1950s, meaning that "close ...
Topics: Antarctica, Arctic, climate, news (all these topics)

Inuit All Along Inuit climate petition against U.S. is rejected		18 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Inuit All Along Inuit climate petition against U.S. is rejected Is climate change a human-rights issue? The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights decided to dodge the question. Arctic Inuit submitted a petition to the commission a year ago, accusing the U.S. government of violating Native peoples' rights to their traditional ways of life by declining to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions. The IAC ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, environmental justice, news, politics (all these topics)

Santa's Gonna Be Pissed Arctic summer ice could melt nearly completely by mid-century, study says		12 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Santa's Gonna Be Pissed Arctic summer ice could melt nearly completely by mid-century, study says The Arctic Ocean could lose nearly all of its summer ice by 2040, says a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Research suggests that Arctic ice will begin retreating rapidly around 2024; by mid-century, far northern Canada and Greenland may claim the summer's only ice, while the North Pole will be ocean. A differe ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, news (all these topics)

A New Leaf Billion-tree effort launches as new climate reports issued		09 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
A New Leaf Billion-tree effort launches as new climate reports issued Ooh, we love reports. A new one from a team of European scientists says the Arctic and Antarctic are linked by powerful currents, creating a "climate seesaw" that connects the fates of the poles and could help scientists predict the effects of polar warming on climate. A second, U.N.-commissioned re ...
Topics: Antarctica, Arctic, climate, Kenya, land stewardship, news, United Nations (all these topics)

Nothing to Sea Here, Folks Arctic sea ice melts to second-lowest monthly minimum on record		04 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Nothing to Sea Here, Folks Arctic sea ice melts to second-lowest monthly minimum on record Last month, sea ice in the Arctic melted to the second-lowest monthly minimum it has reached in 29 years of satellite measurements. The ice reached its record monthly minimum in September 2005; scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center say the monthly record likely would have been set in September of this year if August hadn't suddenl ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, news (all these topics)

Chagrin and Bear It Melting sea ice makes polar bears starve, drown		18 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Chagrin and Bear It Melting sea ice makes polar bears starve, drown Travel agents hawking trips to the Arctic have been boasting lately of an increased likelihood that tourists will see polar bears -- because starving bears are encroaching on human settlements to scavenge for food. Polar bears have traditionally used ice floes to hunt seals, their favored prey -- but Arctic ice, in case you hadn't heard, is m ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, news, polar bears, wildlife (all these topics)

The Ice Has It More evidence of global warming from study of Arctic winter ice		14 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
The Ice Has It More evidence of global warming from study of Arctic winter ice A NASA scientist has wrested free of his muzzle to declare that the drastic melt of Arctic sea ice is likely caused by global warming. New research published in Geophysical Research Letters shows that for the past two winters, Arctic sea-ice growth at its peak has been 6 percent below the average peak since 1978, consistent with scientific models of human- ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, news (all these topics)

Appy Days Are Here Again Ancient Arctic was balmy, a discovery that worries climate scientists		01 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Appy Days Are Here Again Ancient Arctic was balmy, a discovery that worries climate scientists Fifty-five million years ago, the average temperature of the Arctic was a balmy 74 degrees, according to research published today in Nature. The data was gleaned from the first significant sample of sea-floor sediment ever taken from underneath the thick ice at the North Pole. During the Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum, "the Earth rel ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, news (all these topics)

Arctic Tock ... Arctic ice may be gone in one to three decades		15 May 2006	Daily Grist
Arctic Tock ... Arctic ice may be gone in one to three decades If you've been planning a trip to the Arctic, better buy your tickets now, because it's a-meltin' fast. (Perhaps you've heard?) A record low amount of ocean froze over this winter -- a reduction of over 115,000 square miles of sea ice from last year. Researcher Walt Meier of the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center says there is "a good chance" that the Arctic ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, news (all these topics)

Far From the Madding Cloud Pollutants contribute to Arctic warming some more		11 May 2006	Daily Grist
Far From the Madding Cloud Pollutants contribute to Arctic warming some more The Arctic climate is already sensitive to global warming; now it turns out human pollutants are kicking it -- or rather, warming it more -- while it's down. According to a new study in Nature, particulate pollution (mostly from cities in Europe) changes the size and number of water droplets in clouds above the Arctic, increasing their ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

The Kittens Are Next ... Global warming is bad news for baby walruses		17 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
The Kittens Are Next ... Global warming is bad news for baby walruses It seems global warming is now separating babies from their mothers. Heartless bastard. The cute and bristly walrus makes its home on Arctic ice shelves, which are melting rapidly as unusually warm water flows in from the Bering Sea. As their happy walrus home melts and collapses, baby walruses can be separated from their mothers and swim out into dee ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, marine life, news (all these topics)

(Tell Me Why) I Don't Like Tuesdays Scientists report even less Arctic ice, even more greenhouse gas		15 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
(Tell Me Why) I Don't Like Tuesdays Scientists report even less Arctic ice, even more greenhouse gas In the wake of unprecedented summer melts, Arctic sea ice has failed to grow to its typical winter reach for the second year running. Researchers fear this signals -- stop us if this sounds familiar -- an irreversible amplification of the effects of climate change in the region. Dark, ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, news (all these topics)

But It's Still Friggin' Raining in Seattle 2005 is hottest year on record, and 2006 weather is wacked		25 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
But It's Still Friggin' Raining in Seattle 2005 is hottest year on record, and 2006 weather is wacked We know you've been waiting with bated breath to hear the outcome of the competition between 1998 and 2005 for hottest year on record, and NASA's results are in: 2005 wins! 1998 had El Nino, but 2005 had a remarkably warm Arctic. Congratulations, 2005, on your Highest Annual Global Average Surface Temperatur ...
Topics: Arctic, Canada, climate, European Union, news (all these topics)

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