arctic, Tag

From NASA May 14, 2020 Arctic sea ice helps keep Earth cool, as its bright surface reflects the Sun’s energy back into space. Each year scientists use multiple satellites and data sets to track how much of the Arctic Ocean...

In the home of the Northern Lights, Helsinki-based firm Toni Yli-Suvanto Architects has completed the Arctic Sauna Pavilion, a sculptural and sustainable sauna in Lapland...

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Thanks to the support of additional German research vessels, the MOSAiC expedition will continue, despite the coronavirus pandemic...

New mitigation strategy bears great potential University of Hamburg Permafrost soils in the Arctic are thawing. As they do, large additional quantities of greenhouse gases could be released, accelerating climate change. In...

Diminishing sea ice translates to warmer ocean, more rain, and stronger trade winds University of California – San Diego Arctic and Antarctic ice loss will account for about one-fifth of the warming that is projected...

From NASA Feature | February 18, 2020 The image shows a thermokarst lake in Alaska. Thermokarst lakes form in the Arctic when permafrost thaws. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech By Esprit Smith, NASA’s Earth Science News...

If banks destroy our homeland, they’ll have the Gwich’in Nation, and the millions of Americans who stand with us, to answer to

From NASA Global Climate Change NASA’s Operation IceBridge, a ten-year mission to collect polar data between ICESat and ICESat-2, may be coming to a close, but its hundreds of terabytes of data and the expertise of its...

This was from yesterday, and the AGU made it available on YouTube. I was struck by the “Hollywood” factor in the production. Light on science, big on tear-jerking images. Tuesday, 9 December, 11:00 a.m. The NOAA-led...

From AAAS Review ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES The polar regions in a 2°C warmer world Science Advances  04 Dec 2019: Vol. 5, no. 12, eaaw9883 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw9883 Abstract Over the past decade, the Arctic has warmed by...

Never mind how many electric cars are sold there – Norway has to change tack and end prospecting for new oil reserves• David Boyd is the UN special rapporteur on the environment and human rightsOn my official UN visit...

Snøhetta has unveiled preliminary designs for The Arc, a proposed visitor center for Arctic preservation storage on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, a remote island north of the Arctic Circle...

Politico struggling valiantly to see the bad side of shorter growing seasons, more abundant crops and a vast wealth of newly accessible resources. How Russia and China are preparing to exploit a warming planetPOLITICO’s...

Scepticism and safety concerns persist before vessel begins 4,000-mile Arctic journey

Scientists and local Icelanders will unveil a monument next month that memorializes the first glacier out of the country’s 400 glaciers to be lost to climate change...