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The System for Reducing Risks in Ice Operations Provided by Aker Arctic and Light Structures
2016-05-26 01:00:00| Ship Technology
An intelligent ice load monitoring system for the ships operating in ice covered waters will provide the operators a tool to handle the ships in safe but efficient ways.
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Current atmospheric models underestimate the dirtiness of Arctic air
2016-05-25 17:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Black carbon aerosols--particles of carbon that rise into the atmosphere when biomass, agricultural waste, and fossil fuels are burned in an incomplete way--are important for understanding climate change, as they absorb sunlight, leading to higher atmospheric temperatures, and can also coat Arctic snow with a darker layer, reducing its reflectivity and leading to increased melting. Unfortunately, current simulation models, which combine global climate models with aerosol transport models, consistently...
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Major fishing deal offers protection to Arctic waters
2016-05-25 12:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Fishermen and seafood suppliers struck a major deal on Wednesday that will protect a key Arctic region from industrial fishing for cod. Companies including McDonalds, Tesco, Birds Eye, Europes largest frozen fish processor, Espersen, Russian group Karat, and Fiskebt, which represents the entire Norwegian oceangoing fishing fleet, have said their suppliers will refrain from expanding their cod fisheries further into pristine Arctic waters. From the 2016 season the catching sector will not...
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Increased vegetation in the Arctic region may counteract global warming
2016-05-25 02:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Climate change creates more shrub vegetation in barren, arctic ecosystems. A study at Lund University in Sweden shows that organisms, such as bacteria and fungi, are triggered to break down particularly nutritious dead parts of shrubbery. Meanwhile, the total amount of decomposition is reducing. This could have an inhibiting effect on global warming. A large amount of the Earths carbon and nitrogen is stored in arctic ecosystems where the ground is permanently frozen, known as permafrost. Climate...
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Burning All Fossil Fuels Would Lead 17 C Rise in Arctic Temperatures
2016-05-24 16:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Burning all the fossil fuels we know to exist on Earth could push global temperature an average of 8 C above preindustrial levels, according to new research. The Arctic would bear the brunt of the warming, with temperatures potentially rising 17 C, said the authors. The new paper, published Monday in Nature Climate Change, looks at would happen over the next 300 years or so if the world continues to burn coal, oil and gas with no efforts to limit emissions. Dr. Malte Meinshausen from the Potsdam...
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