je.st
news
Tag: arctic
Shell and Alaska natives unveil Arctic Inupiat Offshore JV
2014-08-04 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC), six North Slope village corporations and Shell Gulf of Mexico have unveiled a new joint-venture (JV), dubbed Arctic Inupiat Offshore (AIO).
Tags: alaska
shell
offshore
arctic
Rapid Arctic thawing could be economic timebomb, scientists say
2014-08-03 01:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Rapid thawing of the Arctic could trigger a catastrophic "economic timebomb" which would cost trillions of dollars and undermine the global financial system, say a group of economists and polar scientists. Governments and industry have expected the widespread warming of the Arctic region in the past 20 years to be an economic boon, allowing the exploitation of new gas and oilfields and enabling shipping to travel faster between Europe and Asia. But the release of a single giant "pulse" of methane...
Tags: say
economic
rapid
scientists
Huge waves measured for first time in Arctic Ocean
2014-08-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hannah Hickey: As the climate warms and sea ice retreats, the North is changing. An ice-covered expanse now has a season of increasingly open water that is predicted to extend across the whole Arctic Ocean before the middle of this century. Storms thus have the potential to create Arctic swell - huge waves that could add a new and unpredictable element to the region. A University of Washington researcher made the first study of waves in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, and detected house-sized waves during a...
Tags: time
huge
measured
ocean
Predictions of Arctic summer ice melt come with lots of uncertainty
2014-08-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Alaska Dispatch: Every year, as Arctic sea ice thins, scatters and melts, scientists ask: How low will it go? While the long-term trend of less summer Arctic ice is clear, the short-term outlook for total melt in any given year is far murkier, thanks to the many and sometimes highly volatile factors that drive the final outcome. Still, scientists are attempting to predict how much Arctic sea ice will remain at the end of this years melt, expected in mid to late September. The latest round of expert predictions,...
Catching Waves in the Arctic
2014-08-01 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: As the climate warms and sea ice retreats, the North is changing. An ice-covered expanse now has a season of increasingly open water that is predicted to extend across the whole Arctic Ocean before the middle of this century. Storms thus have the potential to create Arctic swell huge waves that could add a new and unpredictable element to the region. A University of Washington researcher made the first study of waves in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, and detected house-sized waves during a September...
Tags: waves
arctic
catching
catching waves
Sites : [93] [94] [95] [96] [97] [98] [99] [100] [101] [102] [103] [104] [105] [106] [107] [108] [109] [110] [111] [112] next »