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Methane release around Arctic islands predates recent climate change
2014-01-03 09:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ars Technica: The earth sciences have described a number of processes that are decidedly unpleasant for any living organisms unlucky enough to experience them, from volcanic eruptions to mass extinctions. Climatic tipping points are one of those scary processes. You can think of them along the lines of a kid who accidentally crests a steep hill on an old bike with no brakes--he wont be stopping before the bottom of the hill (or he wipes out, whichever comes first). Crossing a tipping point in the climate system...
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Ships may sail over North Pole by 2050 due Arctic melt
2013-12-28 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Express: The Arctic sea ice cover, melting rapidly due to global warming, will be so thin by 2050 that ships will be able to sail directly across the North Pole for the first time, experts have predicted. Researchers said it could also lead to unprecedented geo-political tensions between countries that have territorial claims in the region. Global warming will make these frigid routes much more accessible than ever imagined by melting an unprecedented amount of sea ice during the late summer, a University...
How it snows for days in the Arctic
2013-12-27 21:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: For snow to form, there has to be stuff in the atmosphere microbes, specks of dust for water molecules to freeze on and then form ice crystals. But in the pristine Arctic, where the atmosphere is very clean and the ocean is covered in ice, it can sometimes paradoxically snow for days on end. Researchers at Michigan Technological University in Houghton set out to investigate the mystery of where snow in the Arctic comes from, and how it can fall so persistently in the region. "Within a few...
Arctic 30: five Britons on way home from Russia
2013-12-27 10:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Five Britons who were among the Arctic 30 are on their way home from St Petersburg, three months after Russian authorities seized their ship and arrested them. Members of the group were initially charged with piracy and held in jail for two months before being given bail and then granted amnesty. Anthony Perrett, 32, of Newport, south Wales, will arrive in Paris on Friday and then travel by Eurostar to London with fellow Greenpeace activists Alexandra Harris and Phil Ball, a crew member of...
Arctic 30 protester: 'Russia owes me a medal'
2013-12-26 23:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The first environmental activist to leave Russia after more than two months of detention said that Russia owed him a medal rather than a pardon for his work to protect the environment. Dima Litvinov, a Greenpeace campaigner, was the first member of the Arctic 30 to be allowed to leave. His fellow activists are expected to leave Russia in the coming days. He told told the Guardian of his relief at leaving Russia and arriving in Finland. "In Finland, it's completely relaxed and welcoming. My...
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