Tag: arctic
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Preventing Overfishing in the Arctic
The Atlantic A consortium of countries are meeting in Iceland, where they hope to strike a deal that protects the newly accessible ecosystem The Arctic Ocean has long been the least accessible of the world’s major oceans. But as climate change warms the Arctic twice as fast as anywhere else, the thick sea ice that…
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Greenland’s Disappearing Glaciers—A Tale of Fire and Ice
PBS-NOVA — Jason Box, a glaciologist who grew up in Colorado, watched the High Park wildfire disaster play out on television at LaGuardia Airport, waiting for a flight that would take him to Greenland. He suddenly had a thought: Could soot from the wildfires melt Greenland’s ice sheet?
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Arctic snow cover shows sharp decline
Earlier spring could spell trouble for permafrost Arctic snow is fading fast. June snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere has dropped by almost 18% per decade during the past 30 years, according to a study published in Geophysical Research Letters1. The drop in snow extent will lower the amount of sunlight reflected away from the planet…
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Scientists call for no-fishing zone in Arctic
Nature Thousands of scientists from 67 countries have called for an international agreement to close the Arctic high seas to commercial fishing until research reveals more about the freshly exposed waters. Recent Arctic sea-ice retreat during the summer months has opened up some of the waters that fall outside of the exclusive economic zones of…
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US polar bears mark their territory
More than two years after Alaskan polar bears were given a protection status of “threatened species” by the US Endangered Species Act, the Obama administration set aside on Wednesday 24 November 484,330 sq kilometres — twice the size of the UK — in Alaska as “critical habitat”. Almost all of the area is offshore sea ice…