The Norwegian Polar Institute's peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal —Polar Research— has enjoyed over 100 000 full text downloads from its website during 2011, a mark of success for the journal’s move to open-access nearly one year ago.
Since the beginning of 2011, researchers and citizens of the world have enjoyed free access to Polar Research's full archive of older articles as well as its new articles about the Arctic and Antarctic. Readers are accessing Polar Research from 146 countries and on every continent. Over 14 000 unique visitors have visited the journal’s website this year.
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Identifying the composition of Earth's core is key to understanding how our planet formed and the current behavior of its interior. While it has been known for many years that iron is the main element in the core, many questions have remained about just how iron behaves under the conditions found deep inside Earth. Now, a team led by mineral-physics researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has honed in on those behaviors by conducting extremely high-pressure experiments on the element.
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A group with researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are the first to plot changes in Earth's axis through laboratory measurements. To do this, they constructed the world's most stable ring laser in an underground lab and used it to determine changes in Earth's rotation. Previously, scientists were only able to track shifts in the polar axis indirectly by monitoring fixed objects in space. Capturing the tilt of Earth's axis and its rotational velocity is crucial for precise positional information on Earth -- and thus for the accurate functioning of modern navigation systems, for instance.
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The northern polar region’s climate has materially changed over the past five years, a team of 121 scientists from 14 nations concludes in a December 1 Arctic report card. Compared with 2006 and earlier, they note, the Arctic is warmer and less icy.
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An Arctic winter storm is a vision of terror for seamen: hurricane force winds battering heaving decks encased in thick ice, an ordeal that can drag on for days cloaked in darkness. So far north, rescue teams are usually a very distant hope.
The sinking of a Russian oil rig Sunday in a howling gale off the coast of Sakhalin, on Russia’s Far East coast, left 53 crew members confirmed dead or lost at sea, and added a new chapter to the harrowing lore of Arctic navigation.
Yet as the Arctic climate warms, and vast polar ice sheets melt, international shipping companies are eagerly eyeing two routes across the top of the world — one along Russia’s northern coast, the other through waters claimed by Canada.
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The Arctic marine biology group at UNIS has gotten over 12 million NOK from the Research Council of Norway to investigate the vertical migration rhythms of Arctic zooplankton during the Polar Night. – This is genuinely a new and innovative project that will give us important new knowledge about processes that have hitherto been poorly understood, says Professor Jørgen Berge at UNIS.
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A group with researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are the first to plot changes in Earth's axis through laboratory measurements. To do this, they constructed the world's most stable ring laser in an underground lab and used it to determine changes in Earth's rotation. Previously, scientists were only able to track shifts in the polar axis indirectly by monitoring fixed objects in space. Capturing the tilt of Earth's axis and its rotational velocity is crucial for precise positional information on Earth -- and thus for the accurate functioning of modern navigation systems, for instance.
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The rate of global warming has been the subject of much skepticism among the refudiater set. A good deal of that skepticism has been directed at the claim that there's been little to no warming since the end of the last millennium, with the main argument being that the warming trends found in countless studies were artifacts of siting, measurement and/or analytical errors.
A red herring? Almost certainly, given the abundance of independent evidence of a globally warming world -- the melting of glaciers and permafrost, the shrinking of Arctic sea ice in extent and volume (see also here), earlier bud breaks in spring, to name a few.
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A huge project in Norway enters its final year in January. The NORKLIMA project, The Research Council of Norway's 10-year Large-scale programme on Climate Change and its Impacts in Norway, is entering its final stages.
Continued activities for climate change research in Norway are under way.
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Futuristic robots may be coming soon to an ocean near you. Sensorbots are spherical devices equipped with biogeochemical sensors, that promise to open a new chapter in the notoriously challenging exploration of earth's largest ecosystem -- the ocean.
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For the first time, the presence of large bodied herbivorous dinosaurs in Antarctica has been recorded. Until now, remains of sauropoda -- one of the most diverse and geographically widespread species of herbivorous dinosaurs -- had been recovered from all continental landmasses, except Antarctica. Dr. Ignacio Alejandro Cerda, from CONICET in Argentina, and his team's identification of the remains of the sauropod dinosaur suggests that advanced titanosaurs (plant-eating, sauropod dinosaurs) achieved a global distribution at least by the Late Cretaceous*.
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Many of the particles in the atmosphere are produced by the natural world, and it is possible that plants have in recent decades reduced the effects of the greenhouse gases to which human activity has given rise. One consequence of this is that the climate may be more sensitive to emissions caused by human activity than we have previously believed. Scientists at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) have collected new data that may lead to better climate models.
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Researchers at the University of Delaware are examining tiny worms that inhabit the frigid sea off Antarctica to learn not only how these organisms adapt to the severe cold, but how they will survive as ocean temperatures increase.
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By 2100, global climate change will modify plant communities covering almost half of Earth's land surface and will drive the conversion of nearly 40 percent of land-based ecosystems from one major ecological community type -- such as forest, grassland or tundra -- toward another, according to a new NASA and university computer modeling study.
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Expanding to new territories, capturing new sources of wealth and influence always was at the center of aspirations of people, states, and capital. The Arctic is probably the last such frontier for human expansion, with the potential of tremendously rich awards for everyone who will be able to access them. There is a treasure hidden under the icy hat of the Arctic and (so far) largely un-used transportation routes above it. With ice melting faster than expect, the economic bonanza is just opening with precious mineral resources, crude oil, natural gas and gold. The hydrocarbon deposits in a deep-water area of the Arctic Ocean are estimated at 15-20 billion tons. The Arctic also has deposits of nickel, copper, tungsten, gold, silver, manganese, chromium and titanium. 11% of Russia’s GDP and 22% of her exports are already produced in the Arctic.
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A new ultra-sensitive technology which can monitor leaks from underwater gas pipelines has been developed by scientists at the University of Southampton.
The research has shown that potentially environmentally and financially disastrous gas leaks from pipelines, and methane naturally leaking from the seabed, could in future be detected using changes in acoustic signals.
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Tackling rising CO2 emissions from the residential sector could make a vital contribution towards mitigating climate change, according to a new report from the UCL Bartlett School of Planning.
Setting out the best strategies for achieving this goal by studying examples of good practice globally, the Zero Carbon Homes Project was inspired by a progressive new policy introduced in 2007 by the UK government to ensure that all new homes built post 2016 would be zero carbon. It was this move that marked the most radical approach to residential carbon reduction to date.
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Interest in the Arctic region has recently increased among Arctic states and worldwide. The significance of the Arctic Ocean has increased dramatically owing to the depletion of this planet’s continental natural resources. The problems of inter-state competition and even rivalry for sea expanses and resources are being ag-gravated under the current atmosphere of globalization. Consequently, many states, even those located far from the region, have intensified maritime activity and the fundamental and applied research called on to substantiate or refute specific claims and facilitate the adoption of optimal decisions during the study, exploration, development and exploitation of high-latitude sectors of the world’s oceans.
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Nitrogen from human activity has been polluting lakes in the northern hemisphere since the late 19th century. The clear signs of industrialisation can be found even in very remote lakes, thousands of kilometres from the nearest city. This is shown in new research findings published December 16 in the journal Science.
The research is based on studies of sediment from 36 lakes in the USA, Canada, Greenland and Svalbard, Norway. The researchers have analysed how the chemical composition of the sediment has changed over the centuries.
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Around 100 Beluga whales are trapped in sea ice in the Bering Sea. They await rescue or face death.
The Beluga whale can weigh 2 tons at six meters long.
They lie outside the town Janrakynot in east Russia. They can’t feed but authorities in Chukotcha are hoping for an icebreaker to break the whales free.
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The research and expedition vessel Mikhail Somov has returned to Arkhangelsk after its last Arctic voyage of the current navigation season, said the press service of the Northern Inter-Regional Territorial Board for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (Sevhydromet).
“The trip lasted just over a month. The vessel sailed from Arkhangelsk to Dikson and back. Vitally important consignments were delivered to 18 meteorological stations on the coast and islands of the White and Barents Seas and to some stations in the Kara Sea.
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Russia’s subpolar regions may find themselves affected by a newly discovered hole in the ozone layer above the Arctic, according to the British science weekly Nature. The journal reported that the depletion of the ozone layer this year is the most serious on record and that the hole is likely to expand even further.
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Humans are having an effect on Earth's ecosystems but it's not just the depletion of resources and the warming of the planet we are causing. Now you can add an over-abundance of nitrogen as another "footprint" humans are leaving behind. The only question is how large of an impact will be felt.
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An expedition from the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) have this summer placed an automatic weather station in Pyramiden, 60km north-east of Longyearbyen. The site has previously held an old Soviet weather station from 1947-1957.
The employment of the station is a direct result of the Protocol between the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute on Cooperation in the field of Hydrometeorology. The weather station is a joint program between met.no and AARI.
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New research by PhD candidate Monica Sund show that the dynamics of both surge- and tidewater glaciers must be taken into consideration when assessing the glaciers’ response to climate change. Sund will defend her PhD on 15 December at the University of Oslo.
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A census of Russian polar bears could cost up to $60 million, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Russia said on Wednesday.
The Russian Arctic is estimated to be home to about 5,000 white bears or about a quarter of the worldwide polar bear population and the animal is ranked an endangered species in Russia.
Scientists group them into three or four major populations.
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A Russian fishing vessel, the Sparta, is trapped in heavy ice after it received a hole in the hull near the shores of Antarctica, Alexander Savelyev, a spokesman for the Russian Agency for Fisheries, said on Friday.
“The vessel received a hole in the hull below the waterline… The captain of the vessel made a distress call,” Savelyev said.
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This month the first edition of the Czech Polar Reports saw the light of day.
Masaryk University in Brno has recently launched the Czech Polar Reports, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal for Polar Regions. The first issue has two papers that deal with data from Svalbard. The plan is to issue 2 volumes this year and four from 2013 and onwards. The journal and the papers are all online.
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The Norwegian Polar Institute’s Centenary Expedition South Pole 1911–2011 is participating at the South Pole 14 December, after Jan-Gunnar Winther and Stein P. Aasheim were flown to the South Pole late Monday night. Today it is one hundred years since Roald Amundsen and his men became the first ever to reach the geographical pole.
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Russian research team astonished after finding ‘fountains’ of methane bubbling to surface.
Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region.
The scale and volume of the methane release has astonished the head of the Russian research team who has been surveying the seabed of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf off northern Russia for nearly 20 years.
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Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane - a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide - have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an extensive survey of the region.
The scale and volume of the methane release has astonished the head of the Russian research team who has been surveying the seabed of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf off northern Russia for nearly 20 years.
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A fast-moving glacier on the Greenland Ice Sheet expanded in a geologic instant several millennia ago, growing in response to cooling periods that lasted not much longer than a century, according to a new Arctic study.
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In a hundred years trees may be growing where there are now glaciers. The warm climate of the last few years has caused dramatic melting of glaciers in the Swedish mountains. Remains of trees that have been hidden for thousands of years have been uncovered. They indicate that 13,000 years ago there were trees where there are now glaciers. The climate may have been as much as 3.5 degrees warmer than now. In other words, this can happen again, according to Lisa Öberg, a doctoral candidate at Mid Sweden University in a new study.
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Seabirds often live in large colonies in very confined spaces. Parasites, such as fleas and ticks, take advantage of this ideal habitat with its rich supply of nutrition. As a result, they can transmit blood parasites like avian malaria to the birds. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell and a team of international colleagues have investigated whether this affects all seabirds equally, and whether climate conditions, the habitat or particular living conditions influence infection with avian malaria. They discovered that most seabirds are free of malaria parasites; however, some groups, especially frigatebirds, are particularly common hosts to malaria parasites.
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Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists in the region. The scale and volume of the methane release has astonished the head of the Russian research team, who has been surveying the seabed of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf off northern Russia for nearly 20 years.
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Global warming has become perhaps the most complicated issue facing world leaders. Warnings from the scientific community are becoming louder, as an increasing body of science points to rising dangers from the ongoing buildup of human-related greenhouse gases — produced mainly by the burning of fossil fuels and forests.
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This past September The Guardian reported, "Arctic sea ice has melted to a level not recorded since satellite observations started in 1972 – and almost certainly not experienced for at least 8,000 years".
The British news source also stated that Bremen University released sea-ice maps showing floating ice in the Arctic (due to melting) covered over 4 million square kilometers in early September 2011. "The previous one-day minimum was 4.27m sq km on 17 September 2007." There are still seven days of melting expected before the end of this year which will significantly surpass levels from 2007.
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Scientists have used satellite data from NASA-built Landsat missions to confirm that more than 20 years of warming temperatures in northern Quebec, Canada, have resulted in an increase in the amount and extent of shrubs and grasses.
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The Russian Governmental commission for securing of Russian presence on Svalbard has adopted a proposition for a strategy on how to increase the country’s presence on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard.
The document is meant for “securing Russia’s interests in the region” and contains an analysis of the main basis for Russian presence on Svalbard. The strategy is aimed at securing Russian presence on Svalbard through optimization, increased efficiency and diversification of the country’s economic activities, the Government’s web site reads.
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The official submission for Russia’s claim to Arctic shelf borders expansion is nearly ready, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said.
- We have done a great deal of work, with the submission 90 percent complete, Ivanov told at a press conference, according to RIA Novosti.
The deputy prime minister said that Russian specialists are preparing a claim to be submitted to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in 2012. - I hope this process will end with a positive outcome, Ivanov said.
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Monday, 12 December 2011
From the meeting in Durban (Photo from COP17 website)From the meeting in Durban (Photo from COP17 website)"Today, we saved tomorrow," the chair of the UN Climate talks in South Africa stated, after lengthy negotiations led to a new climate agreement.
COP17 was extended from Friday and after more talks overt the weekend the agreement was reached late on Saturday.
This means that the European Union will follow the request of developing countries to place its current emission-cutting pledges inside the legally-binding Kyoto Protocol.
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Sovcomflot, Russia's largest shipping company, on Thursday posted a 52.4 percent decline in its net profit in January-September 2011, year on year, to $45.731 million to IFRS, the company said in a statement on Thursday.
The company's revenue increased 8 percent in the first nine months of 2011 to $1.076 billion, while its operating profit fell 21.3 percent in the first nine months of this year to $155.571 million.
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Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, the minister of the environment has said.
Peter Kent said the protocol "does not represent a way forward for Canada" and the country would face crippling fines for failing to meet its targets.
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An unusually hot melting season in 2010 accelerated ice loss in southern Greenland by 100 billion tons -- and large portions of the island's bedrock rose an additional quarter of an inch in response.
That's the finding from a network of nearly 50 GPS stations planted along the Greenland coast to measure the bedrock's natural response to the ever-diminishing weight of ice above it.
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On August 27, 2008, a satellite looking down on the Arctic Ocean observed something possibly unprecedented in human experience. Certainly for the first time in the region’s short recorded history, both the fleetingly navigable routes that skirt this frozen sea – the north-West Passage, and the north-East Passage Russians usually refer to as the northern Sea Route – were ice-free at the same time. For a few weeks that late summer, a ship could circumnavigate the North Pole without being trapped between massive sheets of ice and the bleak shores of northern Siberia or the Canadian archipelago.
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An unusually hot melting season in 2010 accelerated ice loss in southern Greenland by 100 billion tons -- and large portions of the island's bedrock rose an additional quarter of an inch in response.
That's the finding from a network of nearly 50 GPS stations planted along the Greenland coast to measure the bedrock's natural response to the ever-diminishing weight of ice above it.
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Ocean acidification, caused by increasing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 (refs 1, 2, 3), is one of the most critical anthropogenicthreats to marine life. Changes in seawater carbonate chemistry have the potential to disturb calcification, acid–base regulation, blood circulation and respiration, as well as the nervous system of marine organisms, leading to long-term effects such as reduced growth rates and reproduction4, 5. In teleost fishes, early life-history stages are particularly vulnerable as they lack specialized internal pH regulatory mechanisms6, 7. So far, impacts of relevant CO2 concentrations on larval fish have been found in behaviour8, 9 and otolith size10, 11, mainly in tropical, non-commercial species. Here we show detrimental effects of ocean acidification on the development of a mass-spawning fish species of high commercial importance.
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Staff from NSIDC and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) will attend the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting held in San Francisco, 5 to 9 December. Visit NSIDC staff at booth numbers 1437 and 1439 in the exhibit hall.
For more information on the conference, visit the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting Web site.
Below, find a list of NSIDC or affiliated talks and posters, as well as sessions and workshops hosted by NSIDC scientists and data managers.
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Next week marks 100 years since Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole. As a team of scientists brave the Antarctic to validate data from ESA’s CryoSat mission, it’s hard to imagine what these first intrepid explorers would have thought of today’s advances in polar science.
The remote and vast expanse of the Antarctic is arguably the most hostile environment on Earth – infamously claiming the lives of Captain Robert Scott and his party all those years ago in their fated race to the South Pole.
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The Svalbard Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Project is now accepting applications for the Summer 2012 program. The program offers opportunities for undergraduate students to participate in polar science research projects. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
The project seeks applications from motivated junior-year students to join the program for Summer 2012. Students will formulate their own research questions and carry out the associated fieldwork during a five-week field program on Svalbard. Students will complete their projects at their home institution during their senior year. The program will run from approximately 6 July to 21 August 2012.
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New research into Earth's paleoclimate history by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies director James E. Hansen suggests the potential for rapid climate changes this century, including multiple meters of sea level rise, if global warming is not abated.
By looking at how Earth's climate responded to past natural changes, Hansen sought insight into a fundamental question raised by ongoing human-caused climate change: "What is the dangerous level of global warming?"
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Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have increased by 49 per cent in the last two decades, according to the latest figures by an international team, including researchers at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia.
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In spring 2011, the International Study of Arctic Change (ISAC) in partnership with the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH), ArcticNet, and the International Arctic Research Center, held a meeting at the University of Alaska Fairbanks that brought together representatives of diverse arctic organizations from 11 different nations to discuss the future of collaboration and cooperation in arctic environmental change research. The final report of that meeting is now available at http://www.arcticchange.org.
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What's new in 2011?
Persistent warming has caused dramatic changes in the Arctic Ocean and the ecosystem it supports.
Ocean changes include reduced sea ice and freshening of the upper ocean, and impacts such as increased biological productivity at the base of the food chain and loss of habit for walrus and polar bears.
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A mantra that has driven global negotiations on carbon dioxide emissions for years has been that policy-makers must prevent warming of more than two degrees Celsius to prevent apocalyptic climate outcomes. And, two degrees has been a point of no return, a limit directly or indirectly agreed to by negotiators at international climate talks.
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Plants' and animals' seasonal cycles, such as flowering dates and migration patterns, have shifted in recent decades due to climate change. Now a new study seems to indicate that some human weather-related behavior also is being influenced by global warming.
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Scientists have developed important new insight into the sensitivity of global temperature to changes in Earth's radiation balance over the last half million years.
The sensitivity of global temperature to changes in Earth's radiation balance (climate sensitivity) is a key parameter for understanding past natural climate changes as well as potential future climate change.
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Arctic Sea ice is shrinking so rapidly that by the summer in as little as four years’ time it could vanish altogether at the top of the globe. The International Energy Agency warns that climate change is irreversible by 2017.
Polar bears could be robbed of their hunting ground in the summer period and will hardly survive as the rising global temperature puts the Arctic sea ice in a death spiral. Polar bears totally depend on the sea ice when hunting seals.
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The old Soviet Union may have been just as familiar with Canada’s Arctic waters as Canadians.
Sections of Cold-War-era nautical charts obtained by The Canadian Press suggest that Russian mariners have for decades possessed detailed and accurate knowledge of crucial internal waterways such as the Northwest Passage.
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The elections to the lower house of Russian parliament, problems in the Arctic, Denmark’s upcoming EU presidency and the situation in Syria were high on the agenda of the talks between Russian and Danish foreign ministers Sergei Lavrov and Villy Sovndal.
The talks took place on the sidelines of the meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Tuesday, the press service of the Danish Foreign Ministry said underlining that this was Sovndal’s first meeting with his Russian counterpart.
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Avalanche season is getting closer. What dangers and what factors do you need to take into consideration when you travel by snowmobiles or by ski around Longyearbyen? New UNIS research can now give you some answers.
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Researchers have added further clarity to the global climate trend, proving that global warming is showing no signs of slowing down and that further increases are to be expected in the next few decades.
hey revealed the true global warming trend by bringing together and analysing the five leading global temperature data sets, covering the period from 1979 to 2010, and factoring out three of the main factors that account for short-term fluctuations in global temperature: El Nino,volcanic eruptions and variations in the Sun's brightness.
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Two University of Colorado Boulder researchers who have adapted a three-dimensional, general circulation model of Earth's climate to a time some 2.8 billion years ago when the sun was significantly fainter than present think the planet may have been more prone to catastrophic glaciation than previously believed.
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A drop in carbon dioxide appears to be the driving force that led to the Antarctic ice sheet's formation, according to a recent study led by scientists at Yale and Purdue universities of molecules from ancient algae found in deep-sea core samples.
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As the Arctic warms, greenhouse gases will be released from thawing permafrost faster and at significantly higher levels than previous estimates, according to survey results from 41 international scientists published in the Nov. 30 issue of the journal Nature.
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UCLA life scientists and colleagues have produced the most comprehensive mathematical model ever devised to track the health of populations exposed to environmental change.
The research, federally funded by the National Science Foundation, is published Dec. 2 in the journal Science.
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The end of the last ice age and the processes that led to the melting of the northern and southern ice sheets supply basic information on changes in our climate. Although the maximum size of the ice sheet in the northern hemisphere during the last ice age is relatively well known, there is little reliable data on the dimensions of the Antarctic ice sheet. A publication appearing in the journal Science on 1 December now furnishes indications that the two hemispheres attained their maximum ice sheet size at nearly the same time and started melting 19,000 years ago.
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The appearance of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere probably did not occur as a single event, but as a long series of starts and stops, according to an international team of researchers who investigated rock cores from the FAR DEEP project.
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The Arctic Report Card study suggests that changes at the top of the world have led to unusual weather patterns, a greener Greenland, and lots of plankton. At least the whales are pleased.
Global warming has brought a new normal to the Arctic, with warmer air and ocean temperatures, thinner and less expansive summer sea ice, and greener vegetation in coastal regions abutting the open water.
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The NSR is the main shipping route in the Arctic that skirts Russia’s northern coast and links European and Far Eastern ports.
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In a paper to be published in January in the journal Global Change Biology, a team of scientists from the University of Wollongong (UOW) in conjunction with nuclear scientists from the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO) suggests that mosses, the dominant plants in Antarctica, have been affected by current climate change. Until now, measuring the growth of the moss beds that grow between December and February in ice-free Antarctic coastal areas was almost impossible, making it difficult to assess how the changing climate is affecting the plants.
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As global temperatures continue to rise at an accelerated rate due to deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels, natural stores of carbon in the Arctic are cause for serious concern, researchers say.
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The Swedish Chairmanship of the Arctic Council, along with the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) and Greenland, will present a side event on current environmental trends in the Arctic during the COP17/CMP7 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Durban, South Africa.
The program will consist of presentations from experts on subjects such as the Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) report, Short-Lived Climate Forcers (SLCF), and vulnerable populations in the Arctic. In conclusion there will also be a panel discussion on global and regional environmental consequences and necessary actions.
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The Arctic with its possibilities for mineral extraction, shipping and fisheries will become an important issue for an independent Scotland, a pro-independence MP in the British Parliament says.
Angus Robertson, a prominent MP in the British Parliament and a leading member of the pro-independence Scottish National Party, has issued a call for Scotland to embrace its long-latent "Nordic" identity and to join with neighboring Norway and nearby Iceland — as well as Canada and all other Arctic nations — to "properly engage with our wider geographic region” Canada.com writes.
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IASC Medals are awarded in recognition of exceptional and sustained contributions to the understanding of the Arctic. A maximum of one award is made each year, assuming that there is a nominee of appropriate quality. The award of medals will normally be by the President of IASC during the Arctic Science Summit Week (or exceptionally at another major international meeting) following the ratification of the award.
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We wish to inform you about the following Arctic session at the ‘6th SETAC World Congress’ which will be held in Berlin, Germany, 20-24 May 2012. The conference website provides guidelines for the preparation and submission of your abstracts http://berlin.setac.eu. The abstract submission deadline is 30th November 2011.
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There are no reasons to anticipate conflicts in the Arctic or to draw NATO into the solution of Arctic problems, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday after talks with Icelandic Foreign Minister Ossur Skarpherdinsson.
“Some politicians in other countries touch upon the issue /of possible conflicts in the Arctic area – Itar-Tass/,” Lavrov said. “For the most part they are the ones who have set eyes on the Arctic’s mineral resources and who are seeking to grab the things that don’t belong to them.”
He recalled that decisions on what should be done in the Arctic are taken by member-states of the Arctic Council, including Russia and Iceland.
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This year was only the 11th warmest on record, but figures confirm overall warming trend.
As spring bulbs burst into life in gardens around the UK, and plants break into a late second bloom, this autumn has seen balmy temperatures prevail across the UK and many parts of Europe.
Despite these unusual scenes, however, this year overall is not likely to be a global record-breaker.
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