Posts Tagged ‘Arctic’

• Arctic Ozone Hole’s Effect on Food Supplies this Winter

  One of the biggest indicators of climate change are ozone holes, zones where the ozone that forms the protective layer of Earth’s atmosphere are too thin to be protective anymore. This is caused by greenhouse gases creating chemical reactions with sunlight …

• Moscow Arctic Forum promises peaceful exploitation, silent on risks

  During the end of September the “Arctic nations” – Canada, Russia, Norway, the United States and Denmark – met in Moscow to agree on territorial claims. (Strangely, I didn’t notice any coverage at all in Danish media – while even …

• Greenpeace: Obama must shelve Arctic drilling plans, call for offshore moratorium

  In light of the ongoing offshore oil drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico Greenpeace is demanding that President Barack Obama cancels Arctic drilling plans and calls for an offshore moratorium. The Deepwater Horizon accident has resulted in eleven lives …

• Climate change threatens Pacific security, may spark global conflict

  Photo credit: Pieter Pieterse In a confidential security review by Australia’s Defence Force, named “Climate Change, The Environment, Resources And Conflict”, the Australian army says climate change will pose “one of the biggest threats to security in the Pacific“. The …

• Top German scientist warns that climate change is accelerating

  Photo credit: azrainman Top German scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber warns that climate change is now happening much more quickly than anyone thought was possible. In an interview with Saarbruecker Zeitung newspaper Schellnhuber, who heads the Potsdam Institute for Research on …

• 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 …

• La Nina temporarily cools down global temperatures during first half of 2008

  You might have heard from the climate change deniers that this year will be the coolest globally this century. And that is true. Newly released data from the UK Met Office shows that during the first half of 2008 the …

• 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 …