Tag: Arctic - Page 12
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Starving Polar Bears Turning to Cannibalism
Where Did My Ice Go? Summer's over, and arctic researchers have another bad report from up North: The Arctic sea ice dwindled to its second lowest level. We are still losing ice at a rate of 10% per decade, quite an increase from 5 years ago. We are
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Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel: McCain v. Obama on Offshore Oil Drilling & ANWR
As the House of Representatives just approved a new energy package which contains provisions to allow some offshore oil drilling, it may seem to be a moot point to go into a discussion of where John McCain and Barack Obama stand on
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Oh! So Close: Arctic Sea Ice Summer Melt Fails to Set Record in 2008
In the close but no cigar category, scientists are saying that the extent of summer melt-off of Arctic sea ice appears to have passed its minimum extent this year without setting a record. According to the US National Snow and Ice Data
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Dramatic Ice Loss May Get the Headlines, But 72% of Greenland's Ice Melt Comes From Small Glaciers
Recently there's been a whole bucket full of Arctic climate change bad news, including the news that 83 square miles of Ellesmere Island's ice shelf has been lost this summer alone due to warming temperatures.
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Arctic Ice Is Melting At Record Highs
According to the National Snow and Ice Center, last year, the Arctic Sea broke an all-time record high for the amount of ice that was recorded melting. While proving to be quite a positive experience for the numerous boats
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Sarah Palin Shifting Position on Global Warming Cause? Stands Firm on ANWR
ABC will be running an interview with Sarah Palin this evening on no less than three of its programs (World News, 20/20 and Nightline) and as Earth2Tech puts it, has been milking them for all they’re worth. In the run-up to that interview, last night
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Greenland Wants To Bottle Iceberg Water
It's no secret that TreeHugger isn't fond of single-use bottles of water - there seems no trapping of modern life easier to let go of, when municipalities spend oodles to make most tap water clean, and reusable bottles come in
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Boston's Blackout, The Hypnos and Big Ice Breaks Free
Citroën plans to unveil their Hypnos, a new diesel-electric hybrid crossover concept car.
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Ivory Gull Wins Most Polluted Bird on the Planet Award
If the ivory gull could, it would tell that polar bear, 'I wouldn't eat that if I were you' - eating carcasses of other animals is what got the ivory gull in this predicament in the first place. The ivory gull, which lives
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4,500 Square Kilometers of Canadian Arctic Protected, Three New National Wildlife Areas Established
Earlier in the summer it was announced that Canada would be protecting a large chunk of Ontario’s boreal forests from further development. Today brings word that nearly 4,500 square kilometers (1,740 square miles) of
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Arctic Climate Tipping Point Happening Now! Sea Ice in Its "Death Spiral" Scientist Claims
After yesterday’s ominous news that North American permafrost (and presumably European and Asian, as well) stores 60% more greenhouse gases than we thought, here’s another siren announcing that we are rushing full speed ahead towards a
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60% More Greenhouse Gases Trapped in Permafrost Than Previously Thought
In the spirit of an ongoing series of new discoveries which could be titled "whoops, things are a lot worse than we thought" Yahoo News/AFP is reporting that according to new research coming out to the University of Alaska
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Coal's Toxic Legacy Revealed in Greenland Ice Core
Proving that Big Coal's nefarious influence knows no bounds, a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that pollution from coal burning has contaminated the Arctic for the last 100 years. Measurements taken
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Drift Ice Decreasing In Northern Japan
(Photo by aaroncorey)
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New Arctic Map Shows Just What Boundaries We'll Be Fighting Over For Oil
As global warming continues to heat our atmosphere and melt Arctic ice, boundary disputes in the region are likely to escalate as the nations bordering the region scramble to claim an estimated 90 billion barrels of oil which is currently
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More Trees in the Arctic Could Mean... Worsening Climate Change
While we'd usually be the first to welcome the appearance of more trees, it may not be the most favorable outcome in the high Arctic, reports ScienceNews' Janet Raloff. That is because the advance of boreal forests, which have begun to
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U.N. to Mediate Arctic Dispute: "Carve-Up" Deal in the Works?
A flashpoint of international contention in recent months, the race to lay claim to the Arctic's resources finally came to a head this past week when Greenland hosted a meeting between the five Arctic nations
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The Great Arctic Ice Cap Break-Up: Scientists Discover Network of Cracks on Ward Hunt
Need more evidence that the Arctic ice cap is slowly going the way of the dodo? Traveling with a team of scientists and Canadian troops during a recent expedition on Ward Hunt, BBC Environment Correspondent David Shukman bore
