The amount of the earth’s ocean surface covered by sea ice has been continually observed by satellites and its extent estimated since 1978. The trend has been for shrinking sea ice in the Arctic and, more…
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This year could well see a new record set for the extent of Antarctic sea ice – hot on the heels of last year’s record, which in turn is part of a puzzling 33-year trend in increasing sea ice around Antarctica…
As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and by now you might have seen dramatic images of passengers on stranded icebreaker Akademik Shokalskiy being rescued by helicopter last Friday…
Melting Arctic sea ice may be causing fewer caribou calf births and higher calf mortality in Greenland, researchers have…
Arctic sea ice extent has dropped to a seasonal low and the sixth lowest level since the beginning of its 35-year satellite…
Researchers are now able to determine the amounts of gel produced from sea ice microbes, based on the physical nature of…
Researchers from the University of New South Wales and the Australian Antarctic Division have found that slight changes in…
Sea ice is expanding in the seas around Antarctica. Unlike in the Arctic, where sea ice has suffered a drastic decline in…
Polar bears and brown bears, species known to produce fertile hybrids, have much more in common genetically than previously…
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Alaska Climate Specialist, University of Alaska Fairbanks
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NERC Independent Research Fellow in Oceanography, University of Southampton
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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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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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Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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Professor of Glaciology and Earth Observation, University of Bristol
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Research Professor of Geography and Director, National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado Boulder
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Australian Laureate Fellow, Distinguished Professor, Deputy Director of ARC Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future (SAEF), University of Wollongong
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Chief Scientist, Australian Antarctic Division and Professor of Climate Science, Australian National University
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Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Our Future Oceans and Scientia Professor in Oceanography, UNSW
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ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne