By Deborah Zabarenko18 July 2011 WASHINGTON — Polar bear cubs forced to swim long distances with their mothers as their icy Arctic habitat melts appear to have a higher mortality rate than cubs that didn’t have to swim as far, a new study reports. Polar bears hunt, feed and give birth on ice or on […]
By Margaret Munro, Postmedia News30 May 2011 Canada’s fabled Northwest Passage will not open up to shipping anytime soon, according to a study that warns global warming is a double-edged sword for northern transportation. “And Canada is going to be feeling the harsh edge of the sword more strongly than other Arctic states,” says Scott […]
May 16 (Queen’s University) – Scientists from Queen’s and Carleton universities head a national multidisciplinary research team that has uncovered startling new evidence of the destructive impact of global climate change on North America’s largest Arctic delta. “One of the most ominous threats of global warming today is from rising sea levels, which can cause […]
By Andrew Quinn; additional reporting by Alister Doyle in Oslo; editing by Laura MacInnis 10 May 2011 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Leaders of Arctic nations gather in Greenland this week to chart future cooperation as global warming sets off a race for oil, mineral, fishing and shipping opportunities in the world’s fragile final frontier. Secretary of […]
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Global mercury emissions could grow by 25 percent by 2020 if no action is taken to control them, posing a threat to polar bears, whales and seals and the Arctic communities who hunt those animals for food, an authoritative international study says. The assessment by a scientific body set up by the […]
Wave-cut coastal scarp near the Varandei oil terminal, Pechora Sea, Russia. Source: S. Ogorodov, Arctic Coastal Dynamics Coastal Photo Collection, Potsdam Climate change can also be a catalyst for expanding industrial activities in the Arctic. Retreating sea-ice will make new areas available for shipping and offshore oil and gas activities, while increasing wave erosion hazards […]
[This horrifying video shows harp seals being slaughtered with hakapiks; not for the faint of heart.] The Canadian seal hunt opened this week with fewer animals being killed. Record-low ice kept sealers at home, with only four boats on opening day killing 1200 seals. Even though Canada has set the limit high, the slaughter has […]
Date of freeze-up (day of year) for Wales/Bering Strait from passive microwave satellite data (Kapsch and Eicken, unpublished data). The time series shows a delay in onset of freeze-up (statistically significant at the 95% level) parallel to the substantial changes in summer minimum ice extent observed over the same time period. State of the Arctic […]
By KARL RITTER, Associated Press3 May 2011 STOCKHOLM – Arctic ice is melting faster than expected and could raise the average global sea level by as much as five feet this century, an authoritative new report suggests. The study by the international Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, or AMAP, is one of the most comprehensive […]
Washington, April 22 (IANS) – Melting glaciers and ice caps on Canadian Arctic islands play a much greater role in sea-level rise than scientists previously suspected. For instance, the 550,000-square-mile Canadian Arctic Archipelago contains some 30,000 islands. Between 2004 and 2009, the region lost the equivalent of three-quarters of the water in Lake Erie, found […]
