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Five Reasons Why Sea Ice Decline Should be Front Page News
In the next few days the Arctic sea ice will reach its minimum extent for 2013. At the end of this year’s summer melt season, the areal extent covered by sea ice was more than a million square...
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Arctic Sea Ice Thins as Old Thick Ice Rapidly Disappears
Last week brought news of yet another alarming season for sea ice in the Arctic. The National Snow and Ice Data Center announced the Arctic sea ice coverage for winter was the fifth lowest maximum on...
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Obama, Kerry and Ministers Meet in Alaska: Why the Arctic Matters
President Obama plans to address ministers and experts from 20 nations at the U.S. State Department conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement, and Resilience...
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Anchorage Event a Great Warm-Up for Fort Lauderdale
While the Arctic Council normally meets at a table with only eight chairs, the US has invited world leaders, researchers, and media to a party that promises to be standing room only. What happens in...
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Beyond Heat Waves: What Does 14 Months in a Row of Record Heat Say About...
There is just so much to digest in the latest release of monthly global temperature data by NASA and NOAA, I thought I needed to say something. I just don’t know where to start, so bear with me,...
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Thawing Permafrost: Why It Matters
In these recent hot summer days, as my colleague Xinnan Zhu was walking outside exposed to the outdoor temperature of nearly 100°F, she felt like she was going to melt like an ice cube under the sun....
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Global Warming in the Arctic: A Sensitive Climate Gone Off the Rails
It is polar night in the Arctic—a darkness that lasts from early October to early March. Temperatures rarely escape freezing in that darkness, averaging -30° F until the light begins to return in...
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Breaking News From the Arctic: It Is not Santa, It Is Global Warming
As we gear into the holidays in full force, we often think of family gatherings and dinners and gifts. So, it is not surprising that the North Pole is a big news item around this time of the year. Or...
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Rising Seas Erode Homes and History in Alaska—Let’s Talk Relocation
The Native Village of Shishmaref, viewed from the northeast side of Sarichef Island. Photo: Eli Keene Every sourdough tastes unique. Sure, they all share the same foundational ingredients – water,...
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Unseasonably Warm Arctic Winter is Thawing Alaska and May Be Linked to...
Winter just isn’t the same these days in the North Pole region. At a time of the year when we expect to see maximum Arctic sea ice area for the winter season, the 2018 winter maximum area ranked among...
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Rapid Warming is Creating a Crisis for Arctic Archaeology
An old whaling site on Svalbard, Norway. Photo: Adam MarkhamThere are at least 180,000 archaeological sites in the Arctic. Many are already being lost to climate change – virtually all of them are...
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Half a Degree of Warming Could be the Difference Between Survival and...
The prairie pothole region is home to 50% of North America's waterfowl, but a climate threshold exists where they might not survive a 2°C warming. Photo: USFWSAs a conservationist who has been ringing...
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Trump Administration Outdoes Itself on Climate Change Denial, Insists Arctic...
Among intergovernmental bodies, it is hard to find a more congenial, consensus-driven body than the Arctic Council. This organization, comprised of the foreign ministers of the eight arctic states and...
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Winning at Climate Change: an Arctic and Boreal Story
Climate change is definitely not a competition, but if it were, arctic tundra and boreal forests would be crushing it by getting hotter and changing faster than the rest of the world. Due to a...
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Five Reasons Why Sea Ice Decline Should be Front Page News
In the next few days the Arctic sea ice will reach its minimum extent for 2013. At the end of this year’s summer melt season, the areal extent covered by sea ice was more than a million square...
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Arctic Sea Ice Thins as Old Thick Ice Rapidly Disappears
Last week brought news of yet another alarming season for sea ice in the Arctic. The National Snow and Ice Data Center announced the Arctic sea ice coverage for winter was the fifth lowest maximum on...
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Obama, Kerry and Ministers Meet in Alaska: Why the Arctic Matters
President Obama plans to address ministers and experts from 20 nations at the U.S. State Department conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement, and Resilience...
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Anchorage Event a Great Warm-Up for Fort Lauderdale
While the Arctic Council normally meets at a table with only eight chairs, the US has invited world leaders, researchers, and media to a party that promises to be standing room only. What happens in...
View ArticleIN: Arctic Experts and Scientists — OUT: Unqualified Political Operatives
If there is one part of the world where science must inform policy during rapid climate change, it is the Arctic region. Warming three times faster than the rest of the planet, the Arctic is...
View ArticleGreenland Dispatch #1: the Courage to Face Climate Change
The sound of Greenlandic is in the air as I board the plane to Kangerlussuaq, my entry point to the world’s largest island and one of the most massive and active ice sheets on the planet. The...
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