Arctic climate change update 2019
New observations confirm continued rapid warming in the Arctic, driving many of the changes underway in the region, including loss of sea ice and glacier coverage, as well as changes in terrestrial and
Arctic Ocean
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We still have a chance to save polar bears
Polar bears and other ice-dependent species could survive if we act now to limit and manage human activity in the Arctic.
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Arctic findings bring global warning
The Arctic sea will be ice-free in the summer within 20 years, shortening the global time frame on climate change by a decade, according to a new report released on Wednesday.
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Arctic Ocean may be polluted soup by 2070
Without drastic cuts in emissions, the Transpolar Drift, one of the Arctic's most powerful currents and a key disperser of pollutants, is likely to disappear because of global warming.
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Evidence for middle Eocene Arctic sea ice from diatoms and ice-rafted debris
The presence of ice-rafted debris (IRD) in middle Eocene ocean sediments has previously been demonstrated, but it has been unclear whether the source of IRD was land-based glacial ice or sea ice, a distinction with important climate implications.
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Satellite shows big thaw in old Arctic Sea ice
New Nasa satellite measurements show that sea ice in the Arctic is more than just shrinking in area, it is dramatically thinning. The volume of older crucial sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk by 57% from the winter of 2004 to 2008. That
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Late Cretaceous seasonal ocean variability from the Arctic
The modern Arctic Ocean is regarded as a barometer of global change and amplifier of global warming and therefore records of past Arctic change are critical for palaeoclimate reconstruction.
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Arctic Explorers Find More Evidence Of Global Thaw
A team of British adventurers measuring ice conditions in the Canadian Arctic said on Wednesday they did not find the thicker, older ice that scientists expected to be there. Instead they found only the thinner, predominantly first-year ice that is likely to melt in summer months, in what could be another sign of the impact climate change is having on the Arctic ice sheets.
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All life forms in Arctic affected
John Vidal, The Guardian In the past four years, air temperatures have increased, sea ice has declined, surface waters in the Arctic Ocean have warmed and permafrost is thawing.
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Governance and environmental change in the Arctic Ocean
Strategies are being sought that will promote international cooperation and reduce the risks of discord in the Arctic Ocean.