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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…
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IPY Oslo Science Conference: Largest Ever Gathering of Polar Scientists
15.06.2010
Between the 8th and 12th of June 2010, about 2,300 scientists, policymakers, teachers, journalists and students gathered at the Norway Convention Centre in Lillestrøm close to Oslo at the largest ever gathering of the polar research community: the IPY Oslo Science Conference. During the five days of the conference, researchers,…
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Reindeer Castration to Help Reindeer Cope with Climate Change
14.06.2010
Rising winter temperatures and the freeze-thaw cycles that result create thick layers of ice on top of snow, preventing reindeer from reaching their food. A solution to this presented at the IPY Oslo Science Conference by Eli Risten Nergrd of Sámi University College and the Norwegian School of Vererinary Science…
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Warming Arctic Helps Archeologists Make Extraordinary Find
28.04.2010
Scientists have found artifacts dating back to 2,400 years ago in the Mackenzie Mountains in Canada’s Northwest Territories. The ancient hunting tools that had been frozen in patches of ice formed through the accumulation of snowfall over the years, which until recently remained frozen throughout the entire year.
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Traditional Inuit Forecasting Sharpens Scientific Arctic Weather Insights
09.04.2010
The Inuit have long relied upon their indigenous forecasting skills to determine when a good time to go on a hunt is, but now they are finding that their centuries-old knowledge is no longer quite as useful. As climate change has begun to alter the weather of the Arctic, the…
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Tuberculosis Cause for Concern in Nunavut
15.03.2010
According to a Northern indigenous group, tuberculosis is spreading quickly across the Canadian Arctic. The number of new infections diagnosed among Inuit peoples has more than doubled, from 41 to 88 since 2004, and infection rates are now 185 times higher than in non-natives.
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Prehistoric Ancestors’ Response to Past Climate Change Useful Today
12.03.2010
Since 2004, a team of scientists headed by the University at Buffalo anthropologist Ezra Zubrow has been working in the Arctic regions of Québec, northern Finland and Kamchatka (Russia) in an effort to understand how humans responded to climate changes some 4,000 to 6,000 years ago. The team hopes that…
