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Outsiders in the Arctic: The roar of ice cracking

2013-02-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Economist: SOMETIMES a small event gives you mental whiplash. An example is Singapores application for permanent observer status at the Arctic Council. This is made up of the eight states that have territory within the Arctic circle: the United States, Canada, Denmark (representing Greenland and the Faroes), Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia and Sweden. But Singapore sits at the equator, as far from either pole as it is possible to be. How can it be interested? The answer is that in 2012, as the summer ice...

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Major Storm Accelerated Arctic Sea Ice Loss, Study Finds

2013-02-02 02:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: The "Great Arctic Cyclone of 2012," which struck the Arctic at the height of the sea ice melt season in early August, was not responsible for causing sea ice extent to plunge to a record low just a few weeks later. That is one of the conclusions of a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. It is the first study to quantify the impacts that the storm had on the fragile Arctic sea ice cover, which has been rapidly shrinking and thinning in response to rapid Arctic warming....

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January's top stories: US launch Shell Arctic investigation as rig runs aground

2013-02-01 01:00:00| Offshore Technology

The running aground of a Shell drill ship in the Arctic provoked a US investigation and 27 UK oil ships were forced to close after a leak. Offshore-technology.com wraps up the key headlines from January 2013.

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Arctic Cyclone Had Insignificant Impact on 2012 Ice Retreat

2013-01-31 17:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: Last summer, after an extraordinary storm swirled across the Arctic Ocean, churning sea ice like some great Waring blender, much was speculated about the cyclone`s role in the enormous retreat of sea ice that followed. A new modeling study by the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington, replaying last summer`s Arctic Ocean ice conditions with and without the storm, shows that the short-term influence of all that ice churning probably played almost no role in the final ice retreat...

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Arctic blast grips US Northeast, Midwest, to last days

2013-01-23 12:26:30| Chemicals - Topix.net

An Arctic blast gripped the U.S. Midwest and Northeast on Tuesday, with at least three deaths linked to the frigid weather, and fierce winds made some locations feel as cold as 50 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.

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