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Rapid changes underway in the Arctic affect the region’s people and wildlife, and the entire planet.
Greening sounds good compared to deforestation, but in the Arctic, the expansion of plant life amplifies dangerous feedback loops and could harm the carbon-storing permafrost.
Japan’s whaling practices are in the spotlight following the arrest of activist Paul Watson. Are they a deeply rooted cultural tradition or a lucrative economic activity?
This tsunami, triggered by a melting glacier in Greenland, is a sign of things to come.
Our discovery of a tundra ecosystem, frozen under the center of Greenland’s ice sheet, holds a warning about the threat that climate change poses for the future.
If the ocean circulation, known as AMOC, shuts down, it would be a climate disaster, particularly for Europe and North America. New research shows why that might not happen as soon as some fear.
Agricultural sustainability is as much about power and sovereignty as it is about soil, water and crops.
To narrow our predictions of global sea level rise, we need to know more about these sudden ‘non-linear’ changes to ice sheets.
The ice will survive if temperatures are soon brought back down – new study.
Some of the world’s biggest glaciers flow into fjords in Greenland and we need to know what they’ll bump into on the seabed.
The soil was extracted during the Cold War from beneath one of the U.S military’s most unusual bases, then forgotten for decades.
Glaciologists are discovering new ways surface meltwater alters the internal structure of ice sheets, and raising an alarm that sea level rise could be much more abrupt than current models forecast.
Icebergs don’t just pose a risk to ships – they have a profound impact on the natural world and human societies.
To fully understand the extent of climate-related dangers the Arctic – and our planet – is facing, we must focus on organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye.
The annual report is also a reminder that what happens in the Arctic affects the rest of the world.
The new discovery echoes a mission in 1931, when a five-day zeppelin flight sent robots to the stratosphere and redrew the maps of the high Arctic.
A field glaciologist explains the changes scientists are now seeing.
Polar bears are increasingly seeking sustenance in human trash because of melting sea ice and a loss of hunting opportunities. The result is a rise in human-bear conflict – and dead bears.
The Danish drama has become popular around the globe.
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Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Vermont
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Chair Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW
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Deputy Lead Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Glaciology and Earth Observation, University of Bristol
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Alaska Climate Specialist, University of Alaska Fairbanks
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Senior Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Polar Geodesy and ARC Laureate Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Professor of International Politics in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Ocean and Climate Change, Australian National University
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Professor of Intelligence and National Security & Dean of Faculty, University of Hull
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Professor of Glaciology, Fulbright Scholar, University of Tromsø
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Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania
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Non-resident Senior Fellow, United States Study Centre, University of Sydney