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Things are complicated between Arctic sea ice and air pollution
2015-10-23 22:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Sea ice and air pollution are in a bit of a love-hate relationship right now. On the one hand, pollution from extracting and burning fossil fuels is causing global warming, which is melting all the sea ice. On the other hand, other kinds of pollution from burning said fossil fuels is reflecting sunlight and thus delaying said melting. So while sea ices friends are all, That pollution is bad news, man!, ice is all: And it is bad news: Summer sea ice levels in the Arctic were their fourth lowest...
After the apocalypse: Inside the Arctic vault that could help keep humanity alive
2015-10-23 13:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: Sparkling amid the gray gloom of autumn in the Arctic, the jewel-like entrance juts out of the snow and ice. Built of angular concrete, it looks like a stylish supervillain's lair. But this isn't a Bond bad-guy's hideout. Instead it is home to something that could help save the world in the wake of environmental catastrophe: Seeds. Millions and millions of seeds are stored here, deep beneath the icy permafrost of Svalbard, midway between Norway and the North Pole, and well out of reach of warfare...
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Plastic litter taints the sea surface, even in the Arctic
2015-10-22 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: In a new study, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) show for the first time that marine litter can even be found at the sea surface of Arctic waters. Though it remains unclear how the litter made it so far north, it is likely to pose new problems for local marine life, the authors report on the online portal of the scientific journal Polar Biology. Plastic has already been reported from stomachs of resident seabirds and Greenland sharks....
Measuring the impacts of severe wildfires in the Arctic
2015-10-22 19:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Based on the number of acres burned, 2015 is shaping up to be the second most extreme fire year during the past decade in North America's boreal region. Historically, the area has had one or fewer extreme fire years per decade. This season, 15 million acres burned in Alaska and Canada, according Northern Arizona University's Michelle Mack, researcher and biological sciences professor, who is leading a NASA-funded project to measure the severe fire impacts in North America. "In the boreal region,...
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Arctic Aframax Tanker
2015-10-20 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Arctic Aframax Tanker, developed by Deltamarin and Aker Arctic Technology, is a new Aframax-sized tanker concept for operations in the Arctic region.
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