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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 melting. Accord ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, news, 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)

It's Like Rain on Your Wedding Day New Arctic Refuge drilling bill would spend proceeds on alt-energy		26 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
It's Like Rain on Your Wedding Day New Arctic Refuge drilling bill would spend proceeds on alt-energy The recurring nightmare of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is back, but with a new twist: proceeds would support alternative energy. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) is introducing a bill today to open 2,000 acres of the refuge to oil drilling. Backers of the legislation estima ...
Topics: Arctic, energy, mining and drilling, news, oil, renewable energy (all these topics)

Polar Apposites U.S.-Russia treaty will protect polar bears		19 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Polar Apposites U.S.-Russia treaty will protect polar bears A polar-bear-protecting treaty between the U.S. and Russia was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives this week. It would prohibit the possession, sale, and purchase of polar bears or parts thereof (ew!), and also set quotas on hunting by Native populations. Currently, Native Americans are allowed to hunt polar bears for subsistence; there is ...
Topics: Arctic, news, Russia, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Seedom Is on the March Millions of seed varieties to be secured in new Arctic vault		20 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Seedom Is on the March Millions of seed varieties to be secured in new Arctic vault Construction kicked off yesterday on a high-security vault to be dug into a frozen mountainside on a remote Norwegian island in the Arctic, to protect that most precious of commodities: seeds. The vault will be sized to hold 3 million seed varieties, the source of every known crop on the planet. (Did you know there are 100,000 va ...
Topics: Arctic, food and agriculture, news, Norway (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)

If At First You Don't Succeed ... Keep Not Succeeding House passes legislation to drill in Arctic Refuge ... again		26 May 2006	Daily Grist
If At First You Don't Succeed ... Keep Not Succeeding House passes legislation to drill in Arctic Refuge ... again Here we go again: for the 947th time, the House has passed legislation that would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling. Less than six months before congressional elections, House Republicans are desperate to show they're doing something about high gas prices. Of course, that somethi ...
Topics: Arctic, mining and drilling, news, politics (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)

Fools Rush In Melting Arctic leads to black-gold rush		19 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Fools Rush In Melting Arctic leads to black-gold rush A quarter of the world's undiscovered oil and gas reserves may lie beneath the Arctic Ocean. For centuries they've been stuck under a thick layer of ice, but luckily, the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet and all that bothersome ice is melting! Oil companies around the world are drooling over the black gold up north. Under the au ...
Topics: Arctic, energy, news, oil, US Geological Survey (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)

It's D�j� Ew All Over Again Drill-happy senators go after the Arctic Refuge yet again		17 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
It's D�j� Ew All Over Again Drill-happy senators go after the Arctic Refuge yet again It seems like just three months ago that oil-thirsty congresscritters were pawing at the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge like horny adolescents buzzed on wine coolers. Oh, wait, it was just three months ago. The effort to drill in the refuge "keeps coming back like a recurring nightmare," said Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.). Tel ...
Topics: Arctic, mining and drilling, 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)

Solution Finds New Problem Republicans in Congress reanimate efforts to drill in Arctic Refuge		26 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Solution Finds New Problem Republicans in Congress reanimate efforts to drill in Arctic Refuge Iran -- the world's fourth-largest oil producer -- has threatened to cut oil exports if other nations impose economic sanctions to punish it for restarting its nuclear-power program. Some analysts say oil prices could spike to $100 a barrel if Iran stopped exports entirely. In response to this geopolitical ...
Topics: Arctic, energy, Iran, mining and drilling, news, oil (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)

Strange Ted Fellow Ted Stevens, thwarted on Arctic Refuge, threatens to take toys home		03 Jan 2006	Daily Grist

Topics: Arctic, mining and drilling, politics (all these topics)

Drill Sergeant Stevens moves to hook Arctic Refuge drilling to military spending		16 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Drill Sergeant Stevens moves to hook Arctic Refuge drilling to military spending Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) is getting downright desperate; it seems he'll go to any lengths to get oil drills into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. His latest plan has him attaching an Arctic-drilling provision to a popular military spending bill, hoping that lawmakers won't risk the stigma of appearing to vote against the troops. Ind ...
Topics: Arctic, news, politics, Ted Stevens (all these topics)

Haul Out the Folly White House makes last-ditch effort to open Arctic Refuge to drilling		13 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Haul Out the Folly White House makes last-ditch effort to open Arctic Refuge to drilling The Bush administration is mounting a last-ditch effort to persuade Congress to approve drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge before lawmakers break for the holidays. Interior Secretary Gale Norton and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao are out furiously shopping talking points: It would supply New Hampshire's oil needs ...
Topics: Arctic, mining and drilling, news, politics (all these topics)

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