Posts Tagged ‘Arctic ice’

• First commercial ship sails through Northwest Passage: “I didn’t see one cube of ice”

  CBS News reports that the Canadian Coast Guard is confirming “that in a major first, a commercial ship travelled through the Northwest Passage this fall to deliver supplies to communities in western Nunavut”. “We did have a commercial cargo vessel …

• As the Arctic melts polar bears are resorting to cannibalism

  Besides changing the climate and environment for people around the world the loss of Arctic sea ice is destroying the habitats for polar bears. Recently we reported about polar bears swimming to Iceland trying to find food and land. And …

• NASA: Arctic sea ice reaches second-lowest level on record

  A new preliminary report from NASA confirms our worries. The sea ice at the Arctic is disappearing. NASA reports that the Arctic sea ice has reached a second all-time low “since the dawn of the satellite era”. Previous record low …

• The North Pole could be ice-free in just five years

  Last week the ice at the North Pole melted at an “unprecedented rate.” And that has some scientists worrying that the Arctic could become ice-free during the summers as early as 2013, the Guardian reports. The storms over the Alaska’s …

• The ice melts so fast that scientists had to abandon their polar station

  A group of Russian scientists had to abandon their polar station near Svalbard when the ice their station was standing on started to melt away, three months too early. The polar station was placed on a huge flake of ice …

• The Arctic is losing its ice faster than ever

  This is a continuation on an earlier post called “It keeps getting warmer, no matter what some people say“. Just like the global warming deniers say the Arctic ice is approximately the same as it was last year, as data …