How some polar bears are benefitting from thinning ice
A small subpopulation of polar bears lives on what used to be thick, multiyear sea ice far above the Arctic Circle. The Kane Basin polar bears are now doing better than they were in...
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Artificial intelligence set to revolutionize sea ice warnings
Large resources are required to provide vessels in the polar seas with warnings about the spread of sea ice. Artificial intelligence on a regular laptop may make these warnings cheaper, faster, and available for...
Plane travel destroys polar bear habitat
Arctic researchers want you to know that each metric ton of CO2 causes a loss of 3 m2 of September sea-ice area. We all know we should fly less as a way to reduce...
Predicting the fate of oil spills in a frozen world
Global warming and political decisions are opening the Arctic and its frosty seas to increased development. But what will happen if that expansion results in oil spills in the frozen ocean? Nancy Bazilchuk reports...
Antarctic sea ice reaches record low
Never before have researchers recorded so little sea ice around the Antarctic during the summer months of the southern hemisphere. Half of Weddell Sea is currently not covered with ice. As Barbara Barkhausen in...
Rising litter levels in depths of the Arctic
The Arctic has a serious litter problem: in just ten years, the concentration of marine litter at a deep-sea station in the Arctic Ocean has risen 20-fold. This was recently reported in a study...
2016 was the hottest year ever recorded
The world has just witnessed the hottest year on record, surpassing the exceptionally high temperatures of 2015, the United Nations weather agency reported. Weather-related events are now forcibly displacing more people than conflict and...
Human activities made 2015 heat waves more intense
Scientists have found strong evidence that human-induced climate change increased the severity of heat waves that hit India, Pakistan, Europe, East Africa, East Asia and Australia in 2015, helping to make it the warmest...
Antarctic sea ice breaks winter records
Sea ice around the Antarctic continent has continued to break winter records, while in the Arctic Ocean it melted to its sixth lowest extent, say scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre...
