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Ice levels, rule changes to boost Arctic northern sea route
2013-05-29 12:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Shipping along the Arctic northern sea route is set to grow more than 30-fold over the next eight years and could account for a quarter of the cargo traffic between Europe and Asia by 2030, experts said on Wednesday. With global warming thawing sea ice, the route, which runs along Russia's northern coast and links Europe with ports in East Asia, is opening for longer and longer each year. Russia is also easing regulations to accommodate more vessels aiming to spur use of the still fledgling...
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The Arctic Ice Death Spiral
2013-05-28 06:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Slate: It's no surprise to regular readers I am quite concerned about climate change. My concern on this issue is two-fold: one consists of the actual global consequences of the reality of global warming, and the other is the blatant manipulation of that reality by those who would deny it. These two issues overlap mightily when it comes to Arctic sea ice. The ice around the North Pole is going away, and it's doing so with alarming rapidity. I don't mean the yearly cycle of melt in the summer and freeze...
Plants re-grow after five centuries under the ice
2013-05-27 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: While monitoring the retreat of the Teardrop Glacier in the Canadian Arctic, scientists have found that recently unfrozen plants, some of which had been under ice since the reign of Henry VIII, were capable of new growth. While in the field, the researchers from the University of Alberta discovered that the receding ice--which has doubled from 2 meters per year in the 1990s to 4.1 meters per year in 2009--had uncovered lots of mosses and other non-vascular plants, including more than 60 plant...
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Russia evacuates 'drifting' Arctic research station as ice floe melts
2013-05-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: Russia's environment ministry has ordered the urgent evacuation of 16 scientists from a research station on an Arctic ice floe near Canada because the ice around it is disintegrating at an alarming rate, giving the station little chance of survival. The emergency has sparked a wider debate among Russian Arctic researchers over how to continue their work amid rapidly changing climate conditions, and in an atmosphere in which the race for newly uncovered Arctic resources has become one of the most...
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Arctic base evacuated as ice dissolves beneath researchers feet
2013-05-24 21:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Though it carries major supervillain cred, placing a scientific research station atop an Arctic ice floe in an era of global warming is a dicey proposition - even for the Russians. North Pole 40, a Russian science station that monitors pollution and conducts meteorological research, began operating in October on an Arctic ice floe. The Russians have been deploying research stations to drifting ice floes for more than 70 years, and North Pole 40 is their 40th such station. But they don`t make...
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