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NRC Releases Synthesis of Reports on the State of the Polar Regions
04.04.2012
The US National Research Council (NRC) has just released a synthesis of reports from thousands of scientists from 60 countries who participated in research projects during the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007- 2008.
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Climate Shift Contributed to Demise of Viking Settlements in Greenland
31.05.2011
A rapidly changing climate contributed to the demise of Viking settlements in Greenland, according to a study recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. According to researchers from Brown University, temperatures dropped over a period of a few decades, which led to the demise of Norse settlements…
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Climate Change Predicted to Significantly Alter Arctic Transportation Routes
30.05.2011
A new study conducted by researchers from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) recently published in Nature Climate Change predicts that global warming over the next 40 years has the potential to significantly alter transportation routes in the Arctic.
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Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society (ACCESS) Project Gets Underway
24.03.2011
This March, the Arctic Climate Change, Economy and Society (ACCESS) project got underway. With climate change in the Arctic likely to have a major impact on marine ecosystems and how humans conduct their activities in the Arctic, the goal of ACCESS is to assess how this change will affect marine…
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Ancient Remains of Child Offer Wealth of Information on Ice Age Humans
28.02.2011
Cremated remains of a three year-old child found at in an ancient burial pit in central Alaska could provide new insights into the daily lives and burial practices of humans who lived during the last Ice Age. As detailed in a paper recently published in the journal Science radiocarbon dating…
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Scientists Working on Early Warning System for the Arctic
31.01.2011
Scientists gathered at the 2011 Arctic Frontiers conference in Norway tried to agree on an early warning system that could monitor sudden climate shifts. In the light of the considerable ice melt that has been happening in Greenland, the scientists stressed the importance of implementing an early warning system to…
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Old Logbooks Contain Wealth of Information on Arctic Climate Change
14.01.2011
Expanding the traditional methods for tracking climate change, UK historians are examining the 18th and 19th century logbooks of whaling, navy, and Hudson Bay Co. ships to gather new information on past and present changes changes in the Arctic's climate.
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New Soil Atlas Shows Role of Northern Soils in Climate Change
13.09.2010
The Soil Atlas of the Northern Circumpolar Region contains the results of a three-year collaborative project with partners from northern EU countries, as well as Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Canada, the USA and Russia. The atlas gives a detailed overview of circumpolar soil resources relevant to agriculture, forest management, water management,…
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Ancient Hunters Could Have Started Anthropocene Earlier than Initially Thought
30.06.2010
A new study, accepted for publication in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, suggests that massive mammoth die-off could have resulted in an early contribution to global warming. The study by Chris Doughty, Adam Wolf, and Chris Field - all at the Carnegie Institution for Science - offers a possible scenario…
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Scientists Herald Importance of Satellite Observations
16.06.2010
Scientists highlighted the exceptional contribution satellites have made to the International Polar Year (IPY) and charting the effects of climate change at the recent IPY Oslo Science Conference. During the IPY, the European Space Agency (ESA) provided coordinated observations of the Arctic and Antarctic using its Earth observation satellites such…
