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Recent Sea Ice Survey Draws Attention to Arctic Warming Once Again
03.12.2009
Right before the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, a team of explorers and scientists wanted to draw attention to an increasingly warmer Arctic. The team departed on a 450-kilometre trek across the Arctic for 73 days in unfriendly terrain with temperatures of -40°C.
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SCAR’s Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment Released
02.12.2009
Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment, the first comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica's climate and its relationship to the global climate system, has just been published by theScientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).
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Onset of Younger Dryas Happened in Matter of Months Not Decades
02.12.2009
While investigating a mud core retrieved from ancient Lake Lough Monreach in Ireland, Dr. William Patterson from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, has succeeded to show that the North Atlantic circulation might have stopped in a matter of months and not decades as was previously thought, triggering rapid climate…
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Arctic Multiyear Sea Ice Extent Recovering ... or Not?
30.11.2009
In 2008 and 2009, satellites that surveyed the Arctic sea ice extent provided data showing the multiyear sea ice extent recovering. However while sailing an icebreaker research vessel, the NGCC Amundsen, in the southern Beaufort Sea, University of Manitoba researcher Dr. David Barber found thin, "rotten" ice instead of thick…
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Accelerating Climate Change Requires Urgent Emission Reductions
30.11.2009
With ice sheets melting at an increasing rate and Arctic sea ice vanishing faster than projected, The Copenhagen Diagnosis, a new report documenting the key findings in climate change science since the publication of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report in 2007, has been released to give an update on scientific…
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Global Warming Threatens Infrastructure in Canada’s North
30.11.2009
Roads, buildings and other infrastructure in northern Canada will be increasingly affected by global warming with disastrous consequences as temperatures become increasingly milder in the area, according to a recent report by the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE).
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GBASE Project to Investigate Subglacial Environments in Antarctica
30.11.2009
A team of researchers representing nine institutions have embarked on a project to drill through the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica to gain access to a subglacial lake and cavity below the ice shelf. A part of the WISSARD (Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access…
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Satellites Give False Estimates of Multiyear Arctic Sea Ice Extent
30.11.2009
In 2008 and 2009, satellites that surveyed the Arctic sea ice extent provided data showing the multiyear sea ice extent recovering. However while sailing an icebreaker research vessel, the NGCC Amundsen, in the southern Beaufort Sea, University of Manitoba researcher Dr. David Barber found thin, "rotten" ice instead of thick…
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Cryosat-2 Gets Go-ahead for Launch
26.11.2009
Now that is has completed its Flight Acceptance Review, Cryosat-2, the European Space Agency's new satellite destined to measure land icethickness, is set to be launched on February 25th, 2009 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Built to replace the original CryoSat, which was destroyed in a failed launch attempt in 2005, Cryosat-2…
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International Expedition on Arctic Quest to Find Alternative Fuels
26.11.2009
An international team of scientists from the Marine Biogeochemistry and Geology and Geophysics departments of the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) led a team of university and government scientists to the Beaufort Sea to begin looking for methane hydrate (a large amount of methane is trapped within the crystal structure…
