arctic, Tag

Migrating barnacle geese that lay their eggs in the Arctic zones of northern Russia are becoming confounded by earlier springs in their traditional nesting grounds, according to a study published in Current Biology...

According to The Guardian, there is a “global heat wave” going on right now. In Siberia, the heat is supposedly “completely unprecedented” and will surely (we are told) impact Arctic sea ice — the habitat of the...

Narwhals, or the "unicorns of the sea," could be at risk from additional Arctic shipping routes as polar ice continues to recede. A peer-reviewed study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests...

From the “skating on thin ice” department. According to a new paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, the observed mean thickness of the sea ice in the region north of (Arctic) Svalbard was substantially...

Climate change disproportionately impacts the Arctic, where rising global temperatures wrought by the burning of fossil fuels have brought rapid, fundamental changes to places like Alaska...

Following Congress's move to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil and gas production, a long-sought goal of the Republican Party, fossil fuel companies are moving forward with their plans to develop the...

Life on planet Earth is struggling through an historically challenging era, thanks in no small part to the actions of our species. Some scientists have proposed labeling this period as the Anthropocene epoch due to the outsize...

Arctic sea ice is low, with the Bering Sea's ice extent "the lowest recorded since at least 1979," according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)...

Oil extraction in Alaskan wilderness area would be an ‘irresponsible business decision’, trillion-dollar investors say

Would the face of a certain climate change-denying president carved on an Arctic iceberg last for one thousand years — or melt? That's the question an environmental group is asking...

Even the Arctic can't escape plastic pollution. Scientists gathered ice samples from five distinct regions in the Arctic Ocean, and those samples contained sometimes over 12,000 microplastic particles per liter of ice - a...

Can you identify the holes in the sea ice pictured above? If so, let NASA know. They recently posted the image, snapped over the Beaufort Sea, as the April 2018 Puzzler on their "Earth Matters" blog. They aren't quite sure...

NASA’s Operation IceBridge—the airborne mission flown annually over both polar regions—is now in its tenth year making flights over the Arctic. That’s a lot of flight hours spent mapping the region’s land ice and...

This came to me via a tip, but to be honest I get so many daily emails and comments I’ve lost the original source of the tip. This is via the Canadian Ice Service, and it’s a view I have not seen before. It shows...

Hands up who knew that Greenland has been pretty much the same temperature for the last hundred and forty years? We know that there has been massive melting ice, shrinking ice sheets, a dark zone that is a huge problem, that...