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AFTER SEVERAL YEARS, KRESS AND HIS TEAM SUCCEEDED, ESTABLISHING A PUFFIN COLONY ON EASTERN EGG ROCK IN 1981.

Recently, however, there has been a change in puffin diet on Eastern Egg Rock...

2nd October, 2016 309

ANTARCTIC TERRITORIAL SOVEREIGNTY

"I REALLY THINK THE WORLD IS DEFINITELY ON A PATHWAY, AS WE'RE SUGGESTING IN THAT PAPER, PAST THE 2 DEGREE WORLD," WATSON SAID.

Every year, the world is adding an additional 54 or so billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions to the atmosphere, their report notes...

PRE-INDUSTRIAL LEVELS

ROBERT WATSON

30th September, 2016 49

smh.com.au

NEW ZEALAND POLICE INVESTIGATED BUT NEVER DETERMINED WHETHER HIS DEATH WAS AN ACCIDENT, A SUICIDE OR PERHAPS ANTARCTICA'S ONLY RECORDED MURDER.

Robberies are rare because people can't bring much into Antarctica, and there's almost no use for money...

ANTARCTICA

NEW ZEALAND

29th September, 2016 82

GREENLAND IS LOSING 18 TRILLION KILOGRAMS MORE ICE A YEAR THAN SCIENTISTS THOUGHT

A new study says Greenland is losing about 7.6 per cent more ice annually than predicted, adding to global sea level rise...

SEA LEVEL

GREENLAND ICE SHEET

CO-AUTHOR MICHAEL BEVIS

KILOGRAMS MORE ICE

MICHAEL BEVIS

GREENLAND

21st September, 2016 15

www.cbc.ca

INUIT COMMUNITIES TO HAVE INPUT INTO ARCTIC GALLERY AT MUSEUM OF NATURE

A look at the design for a climate exhibition space in the new Canada Goose Arctic Gallery at the Canadian Museum of Nature...

21st September, 2016 745

bbc.com

EMILY PLANT OF FINDOCHTY, MORAY, DISPATCHED THE BOTTLE IN AUGUST 2001 AS PART OF A LOCAL GALA COMPETITION.

I am very excited, and am also looking forward to hopefully meeting Nicola Sturgeon as my favourite subject is modern studies...

ARCTIC CIRCLE

SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY

NICOLA STURGEON

MINISTER NICOLA STURGEON

EMILY PLANT

20th September, 2016 57

IT'S A CHANGE AAMODT FEARS IF FUEL DUMPS OR SEWAGE LINES LEAK INTO FRESHWATER SOURCES, MAJOR POLLUTION ENSUES.

Relocation is already being planned in other parts of Alaska, including one town 600 kilometres south of here on the Bering Sea...

18th September, 2016 228

ARCTIC SEA ICE SHRINKS TO SECOND LOWEST LEVEL EVER RECORDED

'Tremendous loss' of ice reinforces clear downward trend towards ice-free summers due to effects of climate change...

16th September, 2016 4665

seattletimes.com

BESIEGED SCIENTISTS ON RUSSIAN ISLAND DRIVE OFF POLAR BEARS

After that, the bear apparently decided to stick around, and was joined by nine other adult polar bears, and as many as four cubs...

15th September, 2016 6

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

OLSON DECLINED TO LET HER CHILDREN BE INTERVIEWED FOR THIS ARTICLE .

Climate change Julia Olson, founder of Our Children's Trust, is helping 21 young people sue President Obama and the US federal government over global warming...

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES

OLSON

14th September, 2016 2198

SERGEY DONSKOY, RUSSIA'S MINISTER OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT, INSTRUCTED THE COUNTRY'S FEDERAL WEATHER-WATCHING SERVICE TO ENSURE THE SECURITY OF THE TROYNOY ISLAND PERSONNEL, ACCORDING TO TASS.

Plotnikov told Tass, the Russian state news agency, Monday: "A female bear has been sleeping under the station's windows since Saturday night...

BEAR

ARCTIC

ARCTIC WEATHER STATION

TROYNOY ISLAND

TASS

14th September, 2016 4667

RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS ARE 'BESIEGED' BY POLAR BEARS AT A REMOTE ARCTIC POST

Russian law outlaws killing polar bears, a globally-listed endangered species, so scientists in the Arctic are mostly equipped with flares and guns with rubber bullets...

14th September, 2016 4221

BUT THEY OPENED UP PARTS OF THE CANADIAN ARCTIC TO DISCOVERY AND ULTIMATELY FOUND A NORTHWEST PASSAGE, THOUGH IT PROVED INHOSPITABLE TO SHIPPING BECAUSE OF ICE AND TREACHEROUS WEATHER.

The well-preserved wreck of HMS Erebus was found 11 meters (12 yards) below the surface, near King William Island, about 1,200 miles (2,000 km) northwest of Toronto...

13th September, 2016 1

THE ORE ALSO CONTAINS IRON, BUT THAT RED-HUED ELEMENT IS FAR LESS VALUABLE THAN THE PRECIOUS METALS EXTRACTED ALONG WITH IT, AND IS GENERALLY DISCARDED IN SLURRY PONDS.

President Vladimir V. Putin had "promised that industrial development in the Arctic would progress with the utmost care," Mr. Chuprov said in a telephone interview...

11th September, 2016 1110

www.cbc.ca

WHEN BLUIE EAST II, A U.S. MILITARY BASE BUILT IN EASTERN GREENLAND IN 1942, WAS ABANDONED IN 1947, EVERYTHING WAS LEFT BEHIND TO RUST.

Bluie East II was a U.S. military base built in eastern Greenland in 1942...

11th September, 2016 750

telegraph.co.uk

FISH FRAUD SEAFOOD MISLABELLED IN ONE IN FIVE SAMPLES WORLDWIDE

The group analysed 200 studies from 55 countries, on every continent except Antarctica, and found seafood fraud present in almost every investigation...

9th September, 2016 133

seattletimes.com

GIANT CRUISE SHIP MAKES HISTORIC VOYAGE IN MELTING ARCTIC

Smaller cruise ships, those that hold about 200 people, routinely make a port call in Nome and continue through the passage, but this ship is different...

9th September, 2016 113

PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN "PROMISED THAT INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE ARCTIC WOULD PROGRESS WITH THE UTMOST CARE," CHUPROV SAID IN A TELEPHONE INTERVIEW.

The ore also contains iron, but that red-hue element is far less valuable than the precious metals extracted along with it, and is generally discarded in slurry ponds...

9th September, 2016 289

THIS WAS LATE SUMMER ON CAPE COD -- OUR OCEAN WORLD AT ITS MOST INVITING.

There were all these planetary scientists talking about their favorite ocean worlds, Europa or Enceladus or whichever, he recalled...

2nd September, 2016 893

BRITISH AND RUSSIAN WORLD WAR II VETERANS GATHERED ON WEDNESDAY IN ARKHANGELSK, 75 YEARS TO THE DAY SINCE BRITAIN'S FIRST ARCTIC CONVOY OF MILITARY SUPPLIE

Russia fetes 75th anniversary of arrival of first British Arctic WWII convoy...

1st September, 2016 0

www.cbc.ca

MASSIVE CRUISE SHIP BRINGS NEW ERA OF ARCTIC TOURISM TO CAMBRIDGE BAY

Cambridge Bay is home to about 1,300 people, with an average daily high temperature in August of about 10 C...

30th August, 2016 17

RESEARCHERS HAVE ESTIMATED THAT THE LOSS OF ALL THE ICE THAT THE LARSEN C ICE SHELF CURRENTLY HOLDS BACK WOULD RAISE GLOBAL SEA LEVELS BY 10 CENTIMETRES.

The crack is likely to lead to the loss of an enormous chunk of the Larsen C ice shelf, which is slightly smaller than Scotland...

22nd August, 2016 20

GLOBAL WARMING IS GENERALLY ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED FOSSIL-FUEL BURNING AND CONSEQUENT RISES IN LEVELS OF ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE.

However, methane dissipates much more quickly than carbon dioxide...

21st August, 2016 142

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

CLIMATE CHANGE IS MORE ABOUT TRIBALISM, OR WHO WE IDENTIFY WITH POLITICALLY AND SOCIALLY, NISBET AND OTHER EXPERTS SAY.

Democrats -- and scientists -- became more convinced that global warming was a real, man-made threat...

18th August, 2016 10

PRO-FRACKING INSIDER APPOINTED BY CLINTON TO HEAD PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION TEAM

Pro-fracking insider appointed by Clinton to head presidential transition team -- RT America...

BARACK OBAMA

17th August, 2016 0

LATE-NIGHT RACES FOR RIO OLYMPICS AIMED AT U.S. FANS BACK HOME

Michael Phelps doesn't even need to get his swimsuit on until 8.30 p.m...

13th August, 2016 82

ICE CORES ALSO HELP REFINE COMPUTER MODELS USED TO MAKE CLIMATE PREDICTIONS.

An ice core without any depth references -- I shouldn't say this -- it's good for margaritas, he said, poker-faced...

NATIONAL ICE CORE LABORATORY

12th August, 2016 6

THE NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT GREENLAND SHARKS ONLY REACH SEXUAL MATURITY AT ABOUT 150 YEARS OLD.

But even if the lowest age is accurate, Greenland sharks would be the longest-lived known vertebrate...

12th August, 2016 148

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE

SCIENTISTS WARN ANTHRAX ONE AMONG MULTIPLE THREATS LOOSED BY MELTING RUSSIAN PERMAFROST

Yamal, the peninsula straddling the northern Kara Sea and the Gulf of Ob, is sparsely populated by mostly indigenous nomadic reindeer herders...

ARCTIC

ARCTIC OCEAN

RECENT ANTHRAX OUTBREAK

11th August, 2016 26

SOME 5,407 SPECIES 62 PERCENT WERE THREATENED BY AGRICULTURE ALONE.

Agriculture and overuse greater threats to wildlife than climate change - study...

IUCN WORLD CONSERVATION

10th August, 2016 811

Trending News Headlines : Arctic

AFTER THE THUNDER THREW OUT FISHING NETS, CAPTAIN HAMMARSTEDT TRIED BLOCKING THE SHIP'S PATH.

Captain Hammarstedt sailed within 400 feet of the Thunder before reaching for a reference binder -- an Interpol mug shots guide featuring silhouettes of illegal fishing vessels...

28th July, 2015 25438

EXXON MOBIL HAS ALSO ENDORSED A TAX ON EMISSIONS AS A WAY TO FURTHER REDUCE CLIMATE RISKS.

Cohen, vice president for public affairs at Exxon Mobil, said on Thursday that the company had received the subpoena and was still deciding how to respond...

6th November, 2015 18497

A GREAT MANY OF US ENGAGE IN THIS KIND OF CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL.

Climate change is like that it's hard to keep it in your head for very long...

GLOBAL WARMING

6th March, 2015 14738

EXXON'S CLIMATE LIE NO CORPORATION HAS EVER DONE ANYTHING THIS BIG OR BAD

Exxon's climate lie 'No corporation has ever done anything this big or bad'...

14th October, 2015 13662

LOUISE HEAPS CHIEF ADVISOR ON MARINE POLICY AT WWF UK SAID THIS IS CATASTROPHIC.

Louise Heaps, chief advisor on marine policy at WWF UK, said This is catastrophic...

16th September, 2015 9444

WARMER OCEAN TEMPERATURES

WARMING OF OCEANS DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE IS UNSTOPPABLE SAY US SCIENTISTS

Warming of oceans due to climate change is unstoppable, say US scientists...

OCEAN

OCEANOGRAPHY

ADDITIONAL SEA-LEVEL RISE

NOAA’S PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY

GREG JOHNSON

16th July, 2015 7737

ENVIRONMENTAL RECORDS SHATTERED AS CLIMATE CHANGE 'PLAYS OUT BEFORE US'

Thomas Karl, director of Noaa national centers for environmental information, said that last year's climate was shaped both by long-term change and an El Nino event...

2nd August, 2016 5827

US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE

EXTREME ARCTIC SEA ICE MELT FORCES THOUSANDS OF WALRUSES ASHORE IN ALASKA

Agency scientists said about 60 young walruses were killed because of crowding and stampedes...

28th August, 2015 5737

THE COMPANY LAST MONTH WALKED AWAY FROM ITS ARCTIC DRILLING CITING THE DISAPPOINTING RESULTS AND REGULATORY UNCERTAINTY.

The leading Democratic contenders for president have also come out against Arctic drilling...

17th October, 2015 5424

telegraph.co.uk

RIVAL WAR GAMES BY RUSSIAN ARMED FORCES AND NATO REPRESENT GREATEST BUILD UP OF MILITARY TENSION IN EUROPE SINCE COLD WAR WARNS THINK TANK

Rival war games by Russian armed forces and Nato represent greatest build up of military tension in Europe since Cold War, warns think tank...

12th August, 2015 4902

SVALBARD GLOBAL SEED VAULT

EARLIER THIS MONTH, SEEDS STORED INSIDE THE SO-CALLED "DOOMSDAY VAULT" WERE WITHDRAWN FOR THE FIRST TIME -- AS A RESULT OF THE SYRIAN CIVIL WAR.

"Temperatures in the western side of Svalbard are very variable...

8th November, 2015 4654

ZACHARIAE ISSTROM GLACIER

HUGE ZACHARIAE ISSTROM GLACIER HAS BEGUN TO BREAK UP, STARTING A RAPID RETREAT THAT COULD CONTINUE TO RAISE SEA LEVELS FOR DECADES TO COME

Collapsing greenland glacier could raise sea levels by half a metre, say scientists...

GLACIER

GREENLAND ICE SHEET

13th November, 2015 4559

NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

PARAG KHANNA, CONNECTOGRAPHY MAPPING THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL CIVILIZATION WE NEED TO RETHINK THE POLITICAL AND FUNCTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES.

So the way into the heart of North America may eventually be these Arctic shipping routes...

29th April, 2016 3988

smh.com.au

ONE NAME WAS MASSIVELY IN FRONT OF THE REST - BOATY MCBOATFACE.

They include RRS David Attenborough, RRS Pingu and RRS Boat Marley and the Whalers...

ERNEST SHACKLETON

ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL

RRS HENRY WORSLEY

21st March, 2016 3820

YET IN THE WORLD OF GLOBAL CLIMATE POLITICS THAT COUNTS AS PROGRESS.

Yet, in the world of global climate politics, that counts as progress...

GLOBAL WARMING

UNITED NATIONS

GLOBAL CLIMATE POLITICS

DEGREES FAHRENHEIT

28th September, 2015 3754

CLIMATE FIGHT WON'T WAIT FOR PARIS VIVE LA R SISTANCE

Climate fight won't wait for Paris vive la rA C sistance...

9th March, 2015 3559

ON WEDNESDAY, 73 ASYLUM SEEKERS CROSSED INTO NORWAY FROM RUSSIA AT STORSKOG, A RECORD FOR A SINGLE DAY.

Reports of how well Norway treated asylum seekers spread rapidly on social media and by word of mouth...

9th October, 2015 3360

bbc.com

YOU CAN FOLLOW GUIREC AND MONIQUE ON INSTAGRAM AND ON FACEBOOK.

She follows me everywhere, and doesn't create any problems. All I need to do is shout 'Monique!'...

13th June, 2016 3050

THE OUTLOOK FOR THE CAPE DENISON ADELIE PENGUINS REMAINS DIRE.

150,000 Adelie penguins have died after a massive iceberg ran aground in Antarctica...

DENISON ADELIE PENGUINS

PENGUINS

14th February, 2016 2956

telegraph.co.uk

GERMANY, POLAND, LITHUANIA, THE RUSSIAN EXCLAVE OF KALININGRAD, LATVIA, ESTONIA, FINLAND, SWEDEN AND DENMARK ALL BORDER THE BALTIC SEA.

Russia tells denmark not to join nato missile shield or face becoming a target for russian missiles...

21st March, 2015 2910

BRITISH EXPLORER HENRY WORSLEY DIES CROSSING ANTARCTIC, 30 MILES SHORT OF GOAL

British explorer Henry Worsley has died attempting to be the first person to cross the Antarctic unaided, in an epic charity mission inspired by Ernest Shackleton...

25th January, 2016 2907

AN ARCTIC CONTAINMENT DOME WAS CRUSHED DURING A VITAL TEST.

Melting Ice Isnt Opening Arctic to Oil Bonanza...

7th September, 2015 2831

BURNING ALL FOSSIL FUELS WILL MELT ENTIRE ANTARCTIC ICE-SHEET STUDY SHOWS

Burning all fossil fuels will melt entire Antarctic ice-sheet, study shows...

11th September, 2015 2759

SUPERINTENDENT THOMAS PETTERSEN

INTRIGUINGLY, IN 2013 A FACEBOOK GROUP WHICH ADVISES SYRIANS ABOUT HOW TO REACH EUROPE SUGGESTED THAT NORWAY'S BORDER WITH RUSSIA WAS IMPENETRABLE.

Instead, it suggested that Syrians in Russia should buy a hot-air balloon and fly it to Norway, instead of attempting to cross by land...

THOMAS PETTERSEN

29th August, 2015 2492

[HOW WOULD PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S HAIR RANK ON THE WORLD STAGE?] TRUMP SAYS "ISLAM HATES YOU."

The clusters, the video jokes, are part of Donald Trump's secret "wig farm."...

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP

TROMSO

21st April, 2016 2471

RECORD HIGH ARCTIC TEMPERATURES IN 2015 HAVING 'PROFOUND EFFECTS' ON REGION

Latest Noaa report reveals 2015 temperatures were in some cases 3C above long-term average and 70 percent of ice pack in March was made of first-year ice...

15th December, 2015 2450

ACTIVISTS HANG FROM BRIDGE IN PORTLAND TO BLOCK SHELL'S ARCTIC VESSEL

Greenpeace climbers plan to spend days hanging from the bridge in Portland, Oregon in an attempt to hinder Shella??s Arctic oil drilling plans...

29th July, 2015 2354

A RISE OF 2C IS THE 'SAFE' LEVEL GOVERNMENTS HAVE AGREED TO HOLD TEMPERATURES TO.

Over the past decade emissions grew at twice the rate of the previous 30 years...

INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION

SEA LEVEL RISE

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

1st November, 2014 2140

bbc.co.uk

ARCTIC ICE 'GREW BY A THIRD' AFTER COOL SUMMER IN 2013

Arctic ice grew by a third after cool summer in 2013...

21st July, 2015 1957

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ICE SHEET

ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY

WEST ANTARCTICA

COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATION

BIGGEST US COAL COMPANY FUNDED DOZENS OF GROUPS QUESTIONING CLIMATE CHANGE

Analysis of Peabody Energy court documents show company backed trade groups, lobbyists and thinktanks dubbed 'heart and soul of climate denial'...

13th June, 2016 1030

DR. CHURCH'S WORK STUDYING SEA LEVELS HAS PROVIDED IMPORTANT KEYS TO UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE CHANGE.

Sea levels rise as water warms and expands, and glaciers and ice sheets melt...

17th May, 2016 384

SO, WHAT WE WERE LOOKING AT WAS THE QUESTION OF, WAS HILLARY CLINTON BEATABLE?

And the reality is that he's still far behind Hillary Clinton in terms of the pledged delegate count, certainly in terms of superdelegates...

SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS

WEST ANTARCTIC

8th April, 2016 2

ANTARCTIC ICE MAY MELT FASTER THAN FORECAST, STUDY SAYS

In a worst-case scenario, that could raise sea levels in 2100 by 46 to 86 centimetres more than an international panel of climate scientists predicted just three years ago...

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

31st March, 2016 5

IT ALSO FOUND THAT THE 20TH CENTURY WASN'T THE ONLY TIME PERIOD WHEN TEMPERATURE AND GLOBAL SEA LEVEL CHANGED TOGETHER, WROTE KOPP.

2 degrees celsius a critical number for climate change...

23rd February, 2016 1149

BUT WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO DISPROVE HUMAN-CAUSED CLIMATE CHANGE?

Antarctic scientist attacked by Republican Ted Cruz says Texas Senator has confused which way is up...

11th February, 2016 235

chinadaily.com.cn

THIS ABSENCE OF SPECIFICITY IN REDUCING FOSSIL FUEL USE AND GHG EMISSIONS, ACCORDING TO CLIMATE SCIENTISTS, IS SOMETHING BETWEEN DANGEROUS AND DEADLY .

Almost all the delegates seemed to agree the UN climate change conference in Paris was a great success...

31st December, 2015 20

usatoday.com

STICKING POINTS REMAIN AS PARIS CLIMATE TALKS HIT FINAL STRETCH

Delegates from 195A nations working for historic deal by Friday to combat global warming...

9th December, 2015 9

IN NOVEMBER, CHINA RELEASED A DETAILED SCIENTIFIC REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE THAT PREDICTED DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES FOR ITS 1.4 BILLION PEOPLE.

Across China, the surface area of glaciers has decreased more than 10 percent since the 1960s, according to the climate change report...

9th December, 2015 1109

bbc.com

IN ONE PART OF GUATEMALA, OLD BIKES ARE BEING RECYCLED INTO NIFTY PEDAL-POWERED MACHINES.

COP21 Guatemala gives recycled bicycles a new life...

GREENHOUSE GAS

NIFTY PEDAL-POWERED MACHINES

8th December, 2015 67

usatoday.com

COOPERATION WITH CHINA IS ESSENTIAL TO SUCCESSFUL EFFORTS TO COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE, SAID BEN RHODES, OBAMA'S DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER FOR STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS.

Obama to meet with leaders of China, India at climate summit...

PACIFIC OCEAN

CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT

PRESIDENT OBAMA

27th November, 2015 88