Tony Heller’s Faithful Flock of Sheep
“Snow White” also noticed that for some strange reason Tony was telling lots of porky pies about Arctic sea ice again!
Scientists Unravel Evolutionary History of Arctic Flora
A team led by Prof. WANG Wei from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS) has unraveled the evolutionary history of the Arctic flora. The study was published in Nature Communications. The Arctic tundra, to the…
Scientists head to Nunavut island to help solve Mars methane mystery
‘It is a very exciting place to do research,’ says astrobiologist working in the High Arctic A team of researchers has travelled to a remote Arctic island in the hope of better understanding the possibility of life on Mars. Astrobiologist Haley Sapers, an adjunct…
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.