Al Jazeera: Arctic way of living 'under threat' (video)
Al Jazeera's Nick Clark reports from Qerqertat, Greenland, the northernmost civilian community in the second of four reports from the Last Ice Area -- the northwest coast of Greenland and Canada’s...
View ArticleAl Jazeera: NASA: Arctic sea ice reaches record low (video)
Al Jazeera's Nick Clark reports from the Last Ice Area -- the northwest coast of Greenland and Canada’s High Arctic Islands -- aboard the Arctic Tern 1. It is the first of four reports in a special...
View ArticleAlaska climate webinar to discuss Bristol Bay salmon
Event Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 10:00am - 11:00amA webinar, Climate Change and Potential Impacts on Bristol Bay Sockeye Salmon Populations will take place Wednesday, Sept. 26 2012 from 10...
View Article"An Unprecedented Planetary Distress Signal": Arctic Sea Ice Extent Bottoms...
The U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center today (19 Sept 2012) announced that the extent of Arctic sea ice reached an annual minimum of 1.32 million square miles, the lowest sea ice extent on record...
View ArticleWith Record Low Sea Ice Extent, Polar Bears Persevere on Marginal Ice -- or...
On Saturday, 15 September -- the day before the Arctic sea ice extent reached its record low -- a scientist aboard the USGS Healy spotted a polar bear struggling across thin ice. Her photos capture a...
View ArticleIn Alaska's Chukchi Sea: Shell Resumes Offshore Drilling as Nearby Walruses...
The story of this year's Arctic sea ice decline did not end on 16 September when the sea ice reached its official minimum extent for the Arctic overall. The decline has continued in the Chukchi Sea --...
View ArticleMake Tracks for Walruses: Second Annual WCS Run for the Wild
Event Date: Saturday, October 6, 2012 - 8:00am Event Location: New York City Sponsored by the Wildlife Conservation Society at the New York Aquarium at Coney Island to support its work to save...
View ArticleWith Inadequate Sea Ice North of Alaska, Walruses Haul-Out Along Russian Coast
We reported last week (26 September 2012), that sea ice in the Chukchi Sea north of Alaska had declined to the point where the National Ice Center had characterized an area preferred by walruses (Hanna...
View Article13th National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment: Disasters...
Event Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 (All day) - Thursday, January 17, 2013 (All day) Event Location: Washington, DC "On January 15-17, 2013, join over 1,200 leaders from the emergency response,...
View ArticleTracking Pacific Walrus: Expedition to the Shrinking Chukchi Sea Ice (video)
This twelve minute video from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) starts with the biologists describing some of the many endearing qualities of walruses, explaining how important sea ice is to the...
View ArticleWith Rapid Warming in Northern Latitudes, Massive Shift is Underway in...
An international team of researchers has found that rapid warming in northern latitudes has resulted in a decline in temperature seasonality -- the difference between summer and winter temperatures --...
View ArticleScientists Release Findings of Arctic Ocean Acidification Assessment, Warn of...
An international group of scientists on Monday (6 May 2013) released the findings of their Arctic Ocean Acidification Assessment. The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP), which...
View ArticleStudy Predicts Dramatic Decline in Plants and Animals Unless Greenhouse Gas...
An international team of researchers reported today (Sunday 12 May 2013) in the journal Nature Climate Change, that the climate disruption from rapidly rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the...
View ArticleU.S. Unveils Arctic Strategy while Announcing that Atmospheric Concentrations...
The White House on Friday (10 May 2013) released a National Strategy for the Arctic Region, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that daily average atmospheric...
View ArticleWWF Climate Blog Has Moved to New Location
The WWF climate blog now is located at a different Web address: worldwildlife.org/blogs/wwf-climate-blog. All posts since May 2013 are at that location, while older posts will remain archived on this...
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