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- Winter sea ice maximum extent on March 5 was the highest since 2013 Thu, 26 Mar 20, 8:00pmFrom Polar Bear Science Posted on March 24, 2020 | Winter sea ice maximum extent on March 5 was the highest since 2013 The most positive thing that US National Snow and Ice Data Center sea ice experts could say about...
- Increasingly mobile sea ice risks polluting Arctic neighbors Thu, 19 Mar 20, 8:00pmUniversity of Colorado at Boulder The movement of sea ice between Arctic countries is expected to significantly increase this century, raising the risk of more widely transporting pollutants like microplastics and oil, according...
- New research first to relate Antarctic sea ice melt to weather change in tropics Tue, 17 Mar 20, 4:00amDiminishing 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...
- Svalbard Norway now has more polar bear habitat than it did two decades ago Tue, 3 Mar 20, 9:00pmFrom Polar Bear Science Posted on March 1, 2020 | Sea ice around Svalbard, Norway at the end of February 2020 is way above average, as the graph below shows – with more polar bear habitat now than there has been...
- Arctic sea ice can’t ‘bounce back’ Wed, 22 Jan 20, 1:00pmUniversity of Exeter Arctic sea ice cannot “quickly bounce back” if climate change causes it to melt, new research suggests. A team of scientists led by the University of Exeter used the shells of quahog clams,...
- 2019 Alaska aerial survey found the most polar bears since 2012 – dozens of fat healthy bears Mon, 13 Jan 20, 5:00pmReposted from Polar Bear Science Posted on January 12, 2020 | This aerial shot of six fat polar bears lolling around on a sand beach on the coast of the Southern Beaufort Sea, Alaska, was taken by NOAA employees in July...
- Polar bear cubs play on the thin ice that supposedly threatens them with extinction Mon, 23 Dec 19, 5:00amFrom Polar Bear Science Posted on December 21, 2019 | This video tweet deserves a post of its own: two relatively inexperienced cubs-of-the-year in Russia deliberately break through thin ice, fall into the icy water...
- Academic team to be frozen in Arctic ice for historic polar expedition Mon, 23 Sep 19, 7:00amSea ice and snow cover experts support global climate study Dartmouth College HANOVER, N.H. – September 20, 2019 – Dartmouth experts on Arctic sea ice and snow cover are taking part in what is billed as the “largest...
- Low sea-ice cover in the Arctic Sun, 15 Sep 19, 11:00pmSecond-lowest September minimum since observations began Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research The sea-ice extent in the Arctic is nearing its annual minimum at the end of the melt season...
- Ship with Climate Change Warriors caught in ice, Warriors evacuated Mon, 9 Sep 19, 3:00pmFrom Maritime and Crimean Shipping News Erofey Schkvarkin News September 4, 2019 4:09 am Arctic tours ship MS MALMO with 16 passengers on board got stuck in ice on Sep 3 off Longyearbyen, Svalbard Archipelago, halfway...
- A Massive Icebreaker Ship Will Trap Itself in Arctic Sea Ice on Purpose. Here’s Why. Sat, 7 Sep 19, 3:00amFrom Live Science By Tom Metcalfe – Live Science Contributor 3 days ago Planet Earth It’s studying the interactions between the Arctic and the global climate...
- Gore Says His Global Warming Predictions Have Come True? Can He Prove It? Thu, 15 Aug 19, 11:00pmFrom Issues and Insights J. Frank Bullitt When asked Sunday about his 2006 prediction that we would reach the point of no return in 10 years if we didn’t cut human greenhouse gas emissions, climate alarmist in chief Al...
- Icebergs delay Southern Hemisphere future warming Wed, 14 Aug 19, 7:00pmInstitute for Basic Science New research, published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, has found that Antarctic icebergs can weaken and delay the effect of Global Warming in the Southern Hemisphere...
- Polar bear spotted on Bear Island (Barents Sea) this winter for the first time in 8 years Fri, 2 Aug 19, 3:00pmReposted from Polar Bear Science Posted on July 31, 2019 | Polar bear spotted on Bear Island (Barents Sea) this winter for the first time in 8 years A polar bear was spotted this year on Bear Island (Bjørnøya) in the...
- Shockingly thick first year ice between Barents Sea and the North Pole in mid-July Tue, 30 Jul 19, 11:00pmReposted from Dr. Susan Crockford’s Polar Bear Science Posted on July 29, 2019 | In late June, one of the most powerful icebreakers in the world encountered such extraordinarily thick ice on-route to the North Pole...