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VIDEO: Icy waters for Arctic oil exploration
2015-03-12 12:24:40| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
In 2014 companies looked to the Arctic as a new region to exploit natural resources but with plummeting oil prices and growing tensions with Russia, plans to explore the region may need to be put on hold.
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Arctic sea ice near all-time minimum low and could break previous record
2015-03-08 20:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Sea ice in the Arctic is near its all-time minimum for the end of winter and could break the previous record within the next two weeks if it fails to grow, according to the latest satellite data. The area of the Arctic covered by floating sea ice is already the lowest for this time of year, highlighting the long-term warming trend experienced by the region in both winter and summer months. Sea ice expands and contracts with the seasons but satellite data collected since the 1970s shows that...
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Combined Arctic ice observations show decades loss
2015-03-07 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: It's no surprise that Arctic sea ice is thinning. What is new is just how long, how steadily, and how much it has declined. University of Washington researchers compiled modern and historic measurements to get a full picture of how Arctic sea ice thickness has changed. The results, published this month in The Cryosphere, show a thinning in the central Arctic Ocean of 65 percent between 1975 and 2012. September ice thickness, when the ice cover is at a minimum, is 85 percent thinner for the same...
On snowy D.C. day, Senate hearing on the Arctic turns to climate change
2015-03-06 16:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: There is only one bit of official business in the United States Senate Thursday, as a late-season snowstorm blankets Washington: A hearing on "opportunities for the United States to build on its status as an Arctic nation." The appropriateness of holding the hearing during a snowstorm was much remarked upon by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who convened a panel before the Energy and Natural Resources Committee that included two fellow Alaskans, a Mainer and a professor from Washington state....
Arctic Sea Ice Is Getting Thinner, Faster
2015-03-05 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: While the steady disappearance of sea ice in the Arctic has been one of the hallmark effects of global warming, research shows it is not only covering less of the planet, but it's also getting significantly thinner. That makes it more susceptible to melting, potentially altering local ecosystems, shipping routes and ocean and atmospheric patterns. New data compiled from a range of sources -- from Navy submarines to satellites -- suggests that thinning is happening much faster than models have...
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