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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)

We Detect a Seal Change Feds to consider endangered-species protections for four species of Arctic seals		27 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 9:05 AM on 27 Mar 2008 Photo: noaa.gov The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced it's considering whether to list four species of Arctic seals under the Endangered Species Act due in part to climate change. The Center for Biological Diversity, a species-advocacy group, petitioned the agency last year to consider protecting ribbon seals due to disappearing sea ic ...
Topics: Arctic, endangered species, news, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Of Ice and Mendacity Arctic losing older, thicker sea ice despite cooler temps this winter		19 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 7:48 AM on 19 Mar 2008 The Arctic is losing more of its older, thicker sea ice than in years past despite persistent cold weather throughout the Northern Hemisphere this winter, researchers said. Older sea ice tends to be thicker and have a lower salt content, making it more melt-resistant than new ice. In March, Arctic sea ice is usually at its largest extent and this year the area covered is a ...
Topics: Arctic, news, scientific research (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)

It's All About the Ice Sights and sounds from an Arctic research vessel	Elizabeth Grossman	13 Dec 2007	Grist Feature
In late November, I began a three-week stay on the CCGS Amundsen, a Canadian Coast Guard ice-breaker and scientific research vessel that is spending 15 months in the Arctic. This expedition will be the first ever to spend the winter moving through sea ice north of the Arctic Circle -- and at present, I am the only reporter on board. The logistics of such an expedition are extremely difficul ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, oceans, scientific research (all these topics)

Out of Shipping Shape Northwest Passage likely to be unpopular shipping route despite summer ice-free state		03 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 6:15 AM on 03 Oct 2007 While the record melting of the Arctic's sea ice this summer fully opened up the Northwest Passage for the first time since records began, it turns out few shippers would actually use the route even if the summer opening became more reliable. The shortcut route would shave off some 4,700 nautical miles from a typical Europe-to-east-Asia shipping journey as ...
Topics: Arctic, business, climate change impacts, news (all these topics)

I Fought the Thaw and the Thaw Won Extent of sea ice in Arctic sets record low, keeps on melting		20 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 6:27 AM on 20 Sep 2007 The extent of sea ice in the Arctic has already hit a record low this season, the gloomiest, if not doomiest, since satellite records began in the 1970s. The world will likely have to wait a month or so for the final numbers to be released since sea ice typically stops melting by the end of September, but researchers are already worried by the extra 380,000 square mi ...
Topics: Arctic, climate change impacts, news (all these topics)

The Female of the Species Is More Doubly Than the Male Inuit villagers give birth to twice as many girls as boys		12 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 4:05 PM on 12 Sep 2007 Twice as many girls as boys are being born in Arctic communities across Greenland and northern Russia, where Inuit villagers are known to have high levels of human-made chemicals in their blood. Many babies are being born premature; baby boys tend to be small. Hormone-mimicking chemicals originate in industrialized countries, travel to the Arctic by w ...
Topics: Arctic, Greenland, news, population, Russia, toxics (all these topics)

Ursine of the Times U.S. study says two-thirds of polar bears will be gone by 2050		10 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 6:52 AM on 10 Sep 2007 The U.S. Geological Survey released a grim study of polar bears on Friday, concluding that two-thirds of the world's polar bears will be gone by 2050. Polar bears in Alaska and other areas outside the very far north will be most out of luck, according to the study; it forecasts that precisely zero polar bears will be left in Alaska by 2050. "Sea ice conditions would have to b ...
Topics: Arctic, news, polar bears, US Geological Survey, wildlife (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)

Man, the Arctic is Hot Russia plants flag under North Pole, India launches its first Arctic expedition		03 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Man, the Arctic is Hot Russia plants flag under North Pole, India launches its first Arctic expedition Earlier this week, we reported that Russia was planning to stake a claim on the North Pole. Or, rather, the seabed deep underneath. Yesterday, two mini-submarines planted a titanium national flag on the sea floor, causing celebration in Moscow and consternation in Canada, which a ...
Topics: Arctic, Canada, India, news, Russia, scientific research, United States (all these topics)

Polar Expression An interview with the directors of Arctic Tale	Kate Sheppard	24 Jul 2007	Main Dish
Adam Ravetch gets up close and personal with his subject. Photo: Arctic Bear Productions After the surprise success of March of the Penguins in 2005 -- a film about, well, penguins ... marching -- it's pretty clear that people like movies about cute animals in cold places. So it's no surprise that National Geographic Films, the company behind Penguins, is back this summer with a new movie documenting the ...
Topics: animal welfare, Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, movies, wildlife (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)

Thou Shalt Not Passage Canada, U.S. debate shipping rights in legendary Northwest Passage		06 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Thou Shalt Not Passage Canada, U.S. debate shipping rights in legendary Northwest Passage Remember when we said Canadians were needy? Well, get a load of this: they want to maintain control over shipping rights in the legendary Northwest Passage, just because they own it. The nerve! With climate change melting Arctic ice, the Atlantic-to-Pacific byway -- long traveled seasonally by ice-breakers and stealthily by submar ...
Topics: Arctic, Canada, news, United States (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)

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