by faster | Oct 22, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: October 22, 2020 SNIP: For the first time since records began, the main nursery of Arctic sea ice in Siberia has yet to start freezing in late October. The delayed annual freeze in the Laptev Sea has been caused by freakishly protracted...
by faster | Nov 17, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Omaha World-Herald DATE: November 16, 2019 SNIP: The salmon catch is collapsing off Japan’s northern coast, plummeting by about 70 percent in the past 15 years. The disappearance of the fish coincides with another striking development: the loss of a...
by faster | Apr 2, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: AWI DATE: April 2, 2019 SNIP: The shallow Russian shelf or marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean are broadly considered to be the ‘nursery’ of Arctic sea ice: in winter, the Barents Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea constantly produce new sea ice....
by faster | Oct 11, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Mashable DATE: October 11, 2018 SNIP: In the deep middle of the remote Arctic Ocean, things are amiss. With the passage of summer, the ice — diminished by the warm season — is expected to regrow as frigid temperatures envelope the Arctic. But, this year,...
by faster | Aug 21, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: August 21, 2018 SNIP: The oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has started to break up, opening waters north of Greenland that are normally frozen, even in summer. This phenomenon – which has never been recorded before – has occurred...
