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Climate drives new era Arctic sea
2015-05-04 09:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Changes in the Arctic Ocean are so profound that the region is entering what amounts to "a new era", according to Norwegian scientists. A switch from a permanent cover of thick ice to a new state where thinner ice vanishes in the summer will have far-reaching implications, they say. The Norwegian Polar Institute has been mounting an expedition to the Arctic Ocean during the year's coldest months. Scientists have to brave extreme temperatures and total darkness. Their aim is to gather...
Arctic mission monitors ice shift
2015-05-03 23:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: A highly unusual expedition is under way in the Arctic Ocean where a research vessel has been parked in the ice all winter. Run by the Norwegian Polar Institute, the mission is exploring the big questions of how the region is changing and what this means for the ice and the wildlife. This matters because the Arctic is on course to switch at some point this century from having permanent ice-cover to existing in a state where the ice comes and goes with the seasons. That could open up everything...
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Advocacy groups seek SEC probe of Shell's Arctic regulatory filings
2015-04-29 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Oceana and the Abrams Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School are requesting that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) launch an investigation into Shell's regulatory filings on Arctic offshore drilling activites.
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Warming Climate May Release Massive Carbon Storehouse Arctic Soils
2015-04-28 19:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: It's no secret that our warming climate is causing ice everywhere to melt, but now new research shows that this thaw may release a massive storehouse of carbon in long-frozen Arctic soils. This could potentially have a catastrophic effect on climate change, which is already wreaking havoc on the environment and wildlife around the world. While climatologists have been closely monitoring carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere, it seems they should be focusing just as much on what's under...
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Warming climate may release vast amounts of carbon from long-frozen Arctic soils
2015-04-27 03:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: While climatologists are carefully watching carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, another group of scientists is exploring a massive storehouse of carbon that has the potential to significantly affect the climate change picture. University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography researcher Aron Stubbins is part of a team investigating how ancient carbon, locked away in Arctic permafrost for thousands of years, is now being transformed into carbon dioxide and released into the atmosphere....
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