arctic, Tag

Shipping tracks, cloud patterns over the ocean. | Photo NASA. Ships leave a trail of sulfur dioxide in the sky behind them which seeds clouds and causes cooling. At the same time, black soot drops out on the arctic ice,...

This year’s Arctic sea ice minimum is just a few days away, but it isn’t going to be a new record low, in fact, it’s likely to come in within 2 standard deviations By  Harry Wilkinson Arctic sea ice is...

A few days ago we had this: Another “Ship of Fools” gets grounded in Arctic ice, needs rescue Jay Ayer writes via WUWT Tips and Notes email: An 11 meter sailboat was crushed and sunk by arctic ice in the Bellot strait...

Remember this? The ill-fated “Spirit of Mawson” expedition to Antarctica that set out to bring attention to “global warming” only to be trapped in ice? We have another winner! This time in the Arctic...

Next month, NASA will launch into space the most advanced laser instrument of its kind, beginning a mission to measure – in unprecedented detail – changes in the heights of Earth’s polar ice...

Next month, NASA will launch into space the most advanced laser instrument of its kind, beginning a mission to measure – in unprecedented detail – changes in the heights of Earth’s polar ice...

The oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic zone north of Greenland is splitting in a never-before-seen event. The waters found there are so cold, they have been frozen for as long as records exist — even during summer...

Researchers develop technique to better predict how plants in cold regions respond to warming DOE/LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY In recent decades, scientists have noted a surge in Arctic plant growth as a symptom...

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...