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Shell to halt oil exploration in Arctic waters offshore Alaska
2015-09-28 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Shell has announced that it will to stop exploration activity in Arctic waters offshore Alaska after disappointing results from drilling at an exploratory well.
$43 Trillion: What Scientists Calculate a Warming Arctic Will Cost
2015-09-22 16:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The melting permafrost in the Arctic could cost the world dearly. New research calculates that the economic damage that would flow from loss of permafrost and the increased emissions of greenhouse gases would add up to $43 trillion. This is very nearly the estimated combined gross domestic product last year of the U.S., China, Japan, Germany, UK, France and Brazil. And, British and U.S. scientists say, this would be in addition to at least $300 trillion of economic damage linked to other consequences...
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Arctic research ship probes frigid depths and 4th-lowest sea ice extent on record
2015-09-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Through Sept. 11 of this year, the Arctic -- which serves a crucial role as the Northern Hemisphere's refrigerator -- lost an area of sea ice nearly equal to the states of Texas, California, Montana and New Mexico combined. This led to the fourth-lowest sea ice extent on record since satellite data began in 1979, continuing the long-term decline in summertime ice cover throughout the Arctic. Both the southerly route of the famed Northwest Passage through Canada and the Northern Sea Route north...
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Arctic Warming Produces Mosquito Swarms Large Enough Kill Baby Caribou
2015-09-16 17:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Some Alaskans joke that mosquitoes are "Alaska`s state bird," but the pesky insects are becoming no joke. Warming Arctic temperatures have caused their numbers to swell immensely in the region in recent years. Lauren Culler has been studying insects in Greenland for the last several years. Culler, a postdoctoral researcher for Dartmouth Colleges Institute of Arctic Studies, along with a team of researchers published a study yesterday in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Why the Arctic's mosquito...
Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Annual Low Point, 4th Lowest on Record
2015-09-16 15:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its annual summer low point, and, as expected, it is the fourth lowest in the four decades of record-keeping, the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., announced Tuesday. While summer ice melt is part of the normal seasonal sea ice cycle, the record lows reached in recent years are a clear sign of the warming-driven decline in Arctic sea ice. All 10 of the lowest sea ice extents on record have occurred since 2005. The Northwest Passage of...
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