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Climate change causing 'corrosive' water to affect Arctic marine life: study
Kawai :: Japan | 1 day ago
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Scientists have uncovered a large expanse of "corrosive" water in the Canadian Arctic that is putting the marine food web at risk. The waters have been so altered by climate change and melting sea ice that plankton, shellfish and fish may have trouble...
Tags: Fiona McLaughlin, sea ice, surface water, climate change, Beaufort Sea, Japan, Kawai, Hydrides, Oxides, Ocean acidification, Arctic, Polar ice packs, Aquatic ecology, Biological oceanography, Glaciology, Environment
US navy braces for Arctic resources fight
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility The scientific consensus is that future Arctic summers will have less and less sea ice, and that has massive implications for the surrounding nations. The lead scientist at the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre, Dr Ted Scambos, says the Artic Ocean...
Tags: navy, sea ice, Anchorage, Global warming, Effects of global warming, Arctic, Polar ice packs, Arctic shrinkage, Climate change, Glaciology, Environment
Earth Matters
Nuuk :: Greenland | 3 days ago
Credibility We all know the ice caps are melting, but who gets control of the gas, oil and minerals emerging from underneath all that water? Alun Anderson, author of a new book, ‘After the Ice’, seeks to find out He is a calm man, but his message is one of alarm.
Tags: Alun Anderson, says anderson, Greenland, New Arctic, bigger picture, polar bears, climate changing, Inuit Circumpolar Council, Nuuk, Hunter-gatherers, Indigenous peoples of North America, Arctic, Inuit, Aboriginal peoples in Canadian territories, Aboriginal peoples in Quebec, Eskimos, Environment
Arctic reindeer vanishing
Reindeers are associated with Santa Claus and, while Santa continues to hold sway, a time may shortly come when reindeers would be mere images on the walls. The effects of global warming are felt in the Arctic regions of Norway as the reindeer population...
Tags: Santa Claus, reindeer, global warming, lichen, snowfall, Norway, Oslo, Symbiosis, Arctic, Sami people, Deer, Mycology, Environment, green
The final meltdown
El Dorado :: AR :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility Life, Death and Politics in the New Arctic Virgin Books £20, 298 pages FT Bookshop price: £16 Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season Putnam $26.95, 294 pages The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle Jonathan...
Tags: Alun Anderson, climate change, Arctic Circle, Arctic Labyrinth, Glyn Williams, Sara Wheeler, Peter Nichols, final voyage, ft bookshop, old arctic, El Dorado, Arctic Ocean, Shipping routes, Arctic, Northwest Passage, Polar ice packs, Geography of Canada, Poles, Sea ice, Environment
Chill-seekers surf the Arctic Circle
Toronto :: Canada | 8 days ago
Credibility The challenge was timed for spring, when the Arctic Circle is emerging from its dark winter, the snow is melting and the ocean is in transition between wild winter chaos and unsurfable summer flatness.
Tags: Arctic Circle, Canada, Toronto, Surfing, Arctic, Frozen food, Hospitality Recreation
Polar Bear Balderdash
Nuuk :: Greenland | 8 days ago
Credibility The Department of the Interior is considering this and it would cover much of the Arctic, including the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean. The Sierra Club is worried because Shell Oil wants to drill for oil in the Beaufort Sea, a part of the “critical habitat...
Tags: polar bears, Sierra Club, sea ice, ringed seals, ice ages, world wildlife, nature resources, Arctic Ocean, global warming, Natural Resources Defense Council, Greenland, Nuuk, Inuit culture, Ringed Seal, Arctic, Brown Bear, Earth, Bears, Poles, Environment
Adrift on the Ice...a "Chilling" experience
A young Inuit is warming up in Churchill, Manitoba today after spending the better part of the weekend stranded on an ice floe in chilly Arctic waters. The youth got separated from his uncle, Jimmy Nakoolak, while out hunting. A large piece of ice he...
Dramatic Biological Responses To Global Warming In The Arctic
"The Arctic as we know it may soon be a thing of the past," says Eric Post, associate professor of biology at Penn State University. Post leads a large, international team that carried out ecosystem-wide studies of the biological response to Arctic...
Tags: Dramatic, Biological, Response, Global Warming, Arctic, The Artic, Weather, Greenhouse Gases, Pollution
Conclusive evidence of man made global warming found in Arctic geological record
While some have argued that global warming is merely a natural trend, new conclusive evidence gathered from the geological record in the Arctic prove that the increasing temperatures are not a natural cycle and are indeed caused by human activity,...
Tags: Global Warming, Climate Change, oil, energy, Clean energy, alternative energy, oceans, air pollution, CO2, greenhouse gases, Arctic, arctic warming, geological
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