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Kerry shocked at effects of climate change in Arctic
2016-06-18 19:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
eNCA: Aboard a Royal Danish Navy ship near the Jakobshavn glacier, the reputed source of the iceberg that sank the Titanic over a century ago, US Secretary of State John Kerry saw evidence of another looming catastrophe. Giant icebergs broken off from the glacier seemed to groan as they drifted behind him, signaling eventual rising oceans that scientists warn will submerge islands and populated coastal region. Briefed by researchers aboard a Royal Danish Navy patrol ship, Kerry appeared stunned by...
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Kerry tours Arctic Circle to see climate change impact
2016-06-16 09:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is visiting Norway's extreme north to view areas impacted by climate change with melting ice and the opening of new sea lanes. Kerry flew Thursday from the capital of Oslo to the small town of Svalbard in the Arctic Circle and was scheduled to visit Ny-Alesund, the northernmost civilian settlement in the world that is home to 15 Arctic research stations, as well as the Blomstrand Glacier, which has significantly receded in recent years. Kerry has made the...
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Scientists: Drop Arctic from plans for offshore drilling
2016-06-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Nearly 400 scientists have signed a letter urging President Obama to eliminate the possibility of Arctic offshore drilling in the near future by taking the Arctic Ocean out of the next federal offshore lease sale plan. The scientists include Jane Lubchenco, Obama's former administrator of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, now a researcher and teacher at Oregon State University. "I've witnessed some of the unprecedented changes underway in the Arctic" Lubchenco said...
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Archaeologists race to save ancient Arctic sites from rising ocean
2016-06-14 15:06:44| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: Arctic archaeologists are fighting to learn what they can from one of the most extensive ancient sites in the North before climate change eats away centuries of history. "It's really happening in a big way," said Max Friesen, a University of Toronto archaeologist who's heading this week to a remote island near the Northwest Territories and Yukon. "We have no idea what we're missing." Friesen is in the middle of a multi-year program to try and preserve what's left of the cultural heritage of...
Melting Arctic could supercharge climate feedback loop
2016-06-14 15:06:44| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: As global warming heats the Arctic, carbon dioxide emissions from melting permafrost could play a bigger role in worsening climate change than previously thought, according to a new study. Scientists have long considered methane emissions to be the biggest climate threat posed by thawing permafrost. Methane is more potent than carbon dioxide in the short term because as the gas is released into the atmosphere, it speeds global warming, leading to more thawing, more emissions and even more warming....
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