Arctic, low. Antarctic, whoa.
Arctic sea ice continues to decline at a near-average pace, with ice extent twelfth lowest in the satellite record at this time.
Facts About the Arctic in July 2023
After briefly being near the bottom of the historical range at the beginning of the month, AWI’s high resolution AMSR2 area metric is now back near the top of that range.
Mid-summer bliss
The longest day of summer has come and gone, and summer melt is in full swing, with the pace of ice loss overall about average for this time of year.
Climate Change Leads to ‘Arctic Opening,’ Creating Key Emerging Risk: Swiss Re
Climate change is the cause of a key emerging risk identified by Swiss Re’s SONAR report, which is leading to the opening of previously frozen waterways in the Arctic and the creation of new shipping and trade routes.
Book Review: Red Arctic: Russian Strategy Under Putin
Elizabeth Buchanan notes that publishing a book just as the central character invades a neighbouring country presents an array of challenges. There are also difficulties in reviewing said book, when – understandably enough – new arguments appear in the afterword….
The Northern Sea Route in 2023
Data from the Northern Sea Route General Administration web site about the current positions of ships voyaging along the Northern Sea Route reveal that the liquified natural gas carrier Fedor Litke is currently following the icebreaker Sibir through the East Siberian Sea, heading for the Bering Strait.
The Handbook of the Arctic
The Handbook of the Arctic. A Broad and Comprehensive Overview. The book, edited by Egor V. Pak, Artem I. Krivtsov, Natalia S. Zagrebelnaya MGIMO University, Moscow, Russia, has recently been published and is now available by Springer. It provides a comprehensive, critical and multidimensional…
Springing into summer
The seasonal decline in Arctic sea ice extent was moderate through much of May before picking up pace over the last few days of the month.
The Northwest Passage in 2023
Prompted by a comment by Tom in the June open thread, the time has evidently come to open the 2023 Northwest Passage passage thread. First of all let’s get our bearings with the help of this map of the area.