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Melting permafrost makes ‘drunken forests’ store less carbon
A drunken forest in Alaska, where trees are tilting or collapsing to the ground due to permafrost melt…
Chilling news adds fresh meaning to 2018 Arctic horror drama
James Fitzjames (Tobias Menzies, left) and John Franklin (Ciarán Hinds) James Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust The TerrorAMCShowrunners: David…
Geoengineering is now essential to saving the Arctic’s ice
The first explorers known to have reached the North Pole spent weeks dragging their sleds across the rough…
Plan to refreeze Arctic sea ice shows promise in first tests
Seawater is pumped onto the snow covering the sea ice in an effort to thicken the ice Real…
The Outrageous Scheme to Capture and Sell Greenland’s Meltwater
Fresh water is becoming increasingly scarce in many countries, but not in Greenland. Its ice sheet contains around…
Pen Hadow: Climate change is making my epic Arctic crossing impossible
It was 21 years ago that I trekked and swam solo, without resupply, across the icy Arctic Ocean…
Melting sea ice is hindering, not helping, Canadian Arctic shipping
Broken sea ice in Lancaster Sound, part of the Northwest Passage Alison Cook Shipping companies have anticipated that…
Zombie Fire Season Is Here in the Arctic
We call this new state the hot metastable state of peat soils. In this context, “metastable” means a…
Huge jellyfish invasion could disrupt Arctic ecosystems as waters warm
A hydrozoan called Aglantha digitale Mario Hoppmann, AWI As Arctic waters warm and sea ice melts due to…
Less Sea Ice Means More Arctic Trees—Which Means Trouble
Like a nice wool blanket can help a human baby stay warm and healthy, so too does a…