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Aker Arctic's Ice Laboratory Returns to Service After Summer Maintenance Break
2017-08-31 11:37:00| Ship Technology
The icebreaking season in Finland typically ends in May. Around the same time, the cooling system in Aker Arctic's ice laboratory in Helsinki, Finland, is switched off, and the model basin is allowed to warm up for the annual summer maintenance break
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Arctic's pink snow pushing ice glaciers towards faster melting: Research
2016-06-26 21:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
INewsToday: Arctic's pink snow pushing ice glaciers towards faster melting: Research But this month, the Arctic landscape looks like something out of a Dr. Seuss book, with landscapes of pink snow. This was speculated to be a result of meteoric iron deposits, according to a report from the London Times that accompanied Ross' findings. The snow changing a darker color could hasten the melting process, which could result in more algae growth and further accelerate the process. Watermelon snow has been spotted...
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Arctic?s red algae speeding up global warming, causing glaciers to melt fast
2016-06-23 07:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
IB Times: A study has revealed that fields of red-coloured algae are forming on worlds glaciers and it is accelerating global warming. Previously, the experts thought the red colour of the snow was caused by some chemical spill or baby seal clubbing. However, it is just algae, and scientists are completely baffled by this weird phenomenon. Moreover, the algae-formation is causing the glaciers to melt fast. The study, published in the science journal Nature Communications, revealed that its the colour...
What Climate Change Looks Like From the Arctic's Edge
2015-09-18 13:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Motherboard: On a wet, cool day this past July, while mosquitoes swarmed his hands and face, field technician Kenneth Mills squatted on the gravel shore of Hudson Bay. He patiently closed a plastic band around the leg of a young shorebird--a semipalmated plover--while a research partner armed with a rifle and binoculars stood on lookout for polar bears. The pair banded 67 birds over 68 days, a small but essential part of data collection thats been conducted annually near Churchill, Manitoba, since 1992--one...
The Arctic's Ponds Are Disappearing Even As the Region Melts
2015-03-15 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: New research has revealed that the Arctic is losing its ponds, with the important habitats shrinking more every day. This may seem like a strange revelation for some, as past research has revealed that the Arctic continues to melt in the wake of climate change. Wouldn't more melt water mean more ponds? Now, a pair of researchers explain what's really going on. "Plants are taking over shallow ponds because they're becoming warm and nutrient-rich," Christian Anderson, a postdoctoral fellow at the...
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