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Scaling up efforts for a heavy fuel oil ban in the Arctic
2016-06-30 10:56:00| Ship Technology
Earlier this year, a group of NGOs called for the phase out of heavy fuel oil used in ships navigating into Arctic waters. But despite the fuels known threats to the Arctic environment, the EU stopped short of pushing for a ban on what is considered
Vegetation in Russian Arctic has memory
2016-06-27 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The permafrost regions in the Arctic are among those areas of the world in which the temperature is rising particularly fast due to climate change. However, biologists are currently observing that the tree vegetation is only minimally adapting to these changes. In those areas where pine and spruce trees should be growing according to the air temperature, the Siberian larch is still thriving. Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Potsdam (AWI) and the University...
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Warming Arctic creates GHG danger zone
2016-06-27 11:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate New Network: Climate scientists have coolly established the mechanism by which a warming Arctic will accelerate the warming of the whole world. Its simple: as the permafrost warms and dries, it will release ever greater quantities of carbon dioxide from the Arctic soils. And those bits of tundra that warm, thaw and become increasingly soggy will release ever greater quantities of methane, a greenhouse gas (GHG) more short-lived but also a far more potent heat trap than CO2. The impact of the carbon dioxide,...
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Watch this famous pianist perform while on a floating platform in the Arctic Ocean
2016-06-22 01:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo: Composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi took a trip to the Arctic for a very unique purpose: He performed a concert for the South Pole. Einaudi played his "Elegy for the Arctic" composed for a Greenpeace effort to help raise awareness about climate change's harmful effects on the region while floating on a platform in the Arctic Ocean. The piece's powerful melody is accompanied by the sounds of ice falling into the sea around Einaudi in a video produced by Greenpeace. "As he performed...
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Changing Winter Climate Causing Permafrost Below Shallow Arctic Lakes to Thaw
2016-06-20 10:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A new study revealed that warmer winters and increasing snowfalls due to climate change is causing the permafrost below the shallow arctic lake. According to the study published in Geophysical Research Letters, changing winter climates over the last 30 years have limited the growth of seasonal sea ice, leading to warming of lakebed temperature of Arctic lakes less than 1 meter deep by 2.4 degree Celsius. This makes the annual lakebed temperature to be above the freezing point. This rate of...
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