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Graphic: Spiralising Arctic sea ice records
2016-07-04 14:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Animation shows how north polar sea ice has shrunk year on year since PIOMAS records began in 1979 Researchers studying Arctic sea ice (Pic: NASA/Kathryn Hansen) Remember that viral gif showing global average temperatures spiraling upward? Well, the man behind it, Reading University climate scientist Ed Hawkins, has been at it again. This time, he has mapped the shrinking volume of Arctic sea ice since 1979 (press play to start the animation). Meanwhile, in the Arctic, sea ice volume...
Setting a cleaner course for shipping in the Canadian Arctic
2016-07-04 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Prompted by melting Arctic sea ice, ship traffic through Canadas Northwest Passage has risen by 166% since 2004. A new report is calling for the Canadian Government to strengthen shipping regulations for Arctic waters by establishing a system of tie
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Obama weighs big Arctic decision
2016-07-04 00:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: With the Interior Department set to finalize a five-year offshore drilling plan later this year, environmentalists are pushing President Obama to follow through on his recent climate work and prevent new drilling in the Arctic Ocean. But the oil industry, while limiting its activity in the Arctic now, says it wants the option to explore for drilling sites in the future. Industry officials argue that blocking drilling would hurt the local economy and could curb American energy production down...
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Thanks to climate change, for better or worse, the Arctic is turning green
2016-07-03 03:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: In June, NASA scientists provided a visualization of a startling climate change trend the Earth is getting greener, as viewed from space, especially in its rapidly warming northern regions. And this is presumably occurring as more carbon dioxide in the air, along with warmer temperatures and longer growing seasons, makes plants very, very happy. Now, new research in Nature Climate Change not only reinforces the reality of this trend which is already provoking debate about the overall climate...
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Red alert as Arctic snows melt faster
2016-07-02 07:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Microscopic forms of coloured algae are suspected of helping to speed up the melting rate of snow by reducing its crucial ability to reflect the suns rays. German scientists have fingered a new suspect in the great glacial melting mystery. The secret agent that may be darkening the summer snows and speeding up the absorption of solar rays is a family of microscopic, cold-loving organisms that tint the snow red. The identification is not a simple matter, and no arrest is likely to be made soon....
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