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Changing climate in polar regions affect rest world far quicker than previously thought
2015-10-14 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A new study of the relationship between ocean currents and climate change has found that they are tightly linked, and that changes in the polar regions can affect the ocean and climate on the opposite side of the world within one to two hundred years, far quicker than previously thought. The study, by an international team of scientists led by the University of Cambridge, examined how changes in ocean currents in the Atlantic Ocean were related to climate conditions in the northern hemisphere...
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Cammell Laird to build 200 million polar research ship for UK
2015-10-13 01:00:00| Ship Technology
The UK Government has selected Cammell Laird shipyard to build a 200m polar research ship.
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Damen Shipyards launches new Polar compliant expedition yachts
2015-09-28 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Damen Shipyards has launched a new Polar Class range of expedition yachts, SeaXplorer, at the Monaco Yacht Show.
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Emaciated polar bear pictures raise global warming concerns
2015-09-15 01:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Photographs of emaciated polar bears have gone viral on social media, and raised concerns over the effects of global warming. One, taken by National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen, shows a dead polar bear lying on a pile of rocks in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Mr Nicklen is trained as a biologist and has worked in the Arctic for decades. He says that on a trip to Svalbard last summer he was unable to locate any live bears, but did find two that appeared to have starved to death....
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Polar Bear's Shocking Appearance May Be Tied To Climate Change
2015-09-14 21:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Arctic Dreams photography shared a photo on her Facebook page last month of a severely thin polar bear with protruding bones, taken in the Arctic Ocean's Svalbard region. Langenberger noted how she has noticed the summers getting warmer, the ice melting and more bears spending time on land. "I realized that the fat bears are nearly exclusively males which stay on the pack ice all year long," she wrote. "The females, on the other hand, which den on land to give birth to their young, are often slim....
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