In 30 years we've lost 75 percent of the Arctic sea ice
If there's one fact to remember which underlines the urgency in protecting the Arctic it's this: in 30 years we've lost 75 per cent of the Arctic sea ice.
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16 September 2011 at 12:48pm -
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Yesterday, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported that Arctic sea ice had reached its annual minimum. It is the second lowest extent in recorded history, just behind the all-time record from 2007. Frida Bengtsson, an oceans campaigner for Greenpeace Nordic, writes from onboard Greenpeace's ship the Arctic Sunrise, which is in the Arctic to help scientists investigate the thickness and volume of the Arctic sea ice at ten different sites.
Two crew members get their first sight of sea ice from the bow of the Arctic Sunrise, in waters off Arctic Svalbard
A few months ago I took the train down from London to Cambridge with my colleague Frida Bengtsson, who is leading this expedition, so that we could meet up with Professor Peter Wadhams. As head of the University’s ‘Polar Ocean Physics Group’, it’s fair to say Peter knows a thing or two about Arctic sea ice. Friends at Greenpeace like to call him ‘the Elvis of sea ice science.’
Ever had that dream where your house moved while you were sleeping in your bed? Where you wake up and walk out the door to find that your house has pulled up its roots and drifted down the valley to where the river meets the sea?
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21 September 2009 at 3:22pm -
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Dr Peter Wadhams, of the Unviersity of Cambridge, is leading a team of five independent scientists investigating the Arctic sea ice from our ship the MV Arctic Sunrise.
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