The Arctic could have summer days with practically no sea ice within the next decade due to emissions from burning fossil fuels, a study has…
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‘Spoon worms lick the seabed with a metre-long tongue’: a voyage into a vanishing Arctic world
It is summer and the air temperature is just below freezing. Fog has crept in, blurring the outline of Polarstern, the German icebreaker moored to…
View More ‘Spoon worms lick the seabed with a metre-long tongue’: a voyage into a vanishing Arctic worldAlarming levels of PFAS in Norwegian Arctic ice pose new risk to wildlife
Norwegian Arctic ice is contaminated with alarming levels of toxic PFAS, and the chemicals may represent a major environmental stressor to the region’s wildlife, new…
View More Alarming levels of PFAS in Norwegian Arctic ice pose new risk to wildlifeHow has the Russia-Ukraine war disrupted science? – podcast
Clip: BBC News In the Arctic, in space, and at international research centres such as CERN, scientists have collaborated with colleagues from around the world…
View More How has the Russia-Ukraine war disrupted science? – podcastDNA from 2m years ago reveals lost Arctic world
Two-million-year-old DNA from northern Greenland has revealed that the region was once home to mastodons, lemmings and geese, offering unprecedented insights into how climate change…
View More DNA from 2m years ago reveals lost Arctic worldSiberian tiger v bear: even David Attenborough ‘wowed’ by Frozen Planet II
The tension in the air was palpable as the group of television producers waited with bated breath to see what would happen as the Siberian…
View More Siberian tiger v bear: even David Attenborough ‘wowed’ by Frozen Planet IINew data reveals extraordinary global heating in the Arctic
New data has revealed extraordinary rates of global heating in the Arctic, up to seven times faster than the global average. The heating is occurring…
View More New data reveals extraordinary global heating in the ArcticThe last hunt? Future in peril for ‘the unicorn of the sea’
Age Hammeken Danielsen has hunted narwhals since he was a child. He and his father would travel along Greenland’s fjords on a small motorboat, armed…
View More The last hunt? Future in peril for ‘the unicorn of the sea’Climate crisis: what lessons can we learn from the last great cooling-off period?
In early February 1814, an elephant walked across the surface of the Thames near Blackfriars Bridge in London. The stunt was performed during the frost…
View More Climate crisis: what lessons can we learn from the last great cooling-off period?Arctic sea ice could hit maximum extent ‘much earlier’ than usual
An extreme heat event in the Arctic could cause it to reach the maximum of the extent of its ice for this year “considerably earlier”…
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