Blogposts tagged 'Climate Impacts'

What do you think we should be doing to save the Arctic?

Posted by bex - 13 February 2012 at 10:46am - 350 Comments
Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man Recreated on Arctic Sea Ice
All rights reserved. Credit: Greenpeace / Nick Cobbing
Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man recreated on Arctic sea ice by John Quigley

As I write, major oil companies like Shell, ExxonMobil and Chevron are planning their moves into the Arctic to exploit its vast mineral resources. The five Arctic states are beginning the process of carving up the high north. Meanwhile, the ice keeps melting – we’ve now lost 75 per cent of Arctic sea ice in just 30 years. The global battle to protect the Arctic - from oil exploration, from industrialisation and from climate change – needs to be ambitious, bold and successful. So we’re asking you: what do you think we should we be doing to save the Arctic? 

Article tagged as: antartica, arctic, arctic drilling, climate change, climate impacts, take action

In 30 years we've lost 75% of the Arctic sea ice

Posted by jamess - 10 February 2012 at 9:57am - 6 Comments
In 30 years we've lost 75 percent of the Arctic sea ice
All rights reserved. Credit: Nick Cobbing / Greenpeace
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.

Article tagged as: arctic, arctic sea ice, climate change, climate impacts, oil

Arctic sea ice decline breaking records over 1,000 years old

Posted by ben - 25 November 2011 at 7:00am - 1 Comment
Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man Recreated on Arctic Sea Ice
All rights reserved. Credit: Greenpeace / Nick Cobbing
Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man Recreated on Arctic Sea Ice

According to a new paper in Nature, sea ice in the Arctic is now declining at a pace and scale not seen for over a thousand years. It estimates that after decades of decline, the amount of ice locked away in the High North is now 2 million km2 smaller than it was at the end of the 20th Century and that ice-free summers at the Pole are likely sooner rather than later.

Article tagged as: arctic, climate change, climate impacts, sea ice

A meeting with “the Elvis of sea ice science”

Posted by jossg - 12 September 2011 at 9:08am - 0 Comments
Two crew members get their first sight of sea ice from the bow of the Arctic Sun
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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.’

Article tagged as: arctic, arctic sea ice, arctic sunrise, climate change, climate impacts, peter wadhams

How many Arctic cowboys does it take to lasso an iceberg?

Posted by jamess - 25 August 2010 at 12:24pm - 8 Comments

Will Rose, independent photographer who regularly works with Greenpeace. He writes from the Esperanza...

We’re in and out of internet range now so I’m not sure when this will go up on the website. As if to mark the occasion thick swirls of fog have cut us off from the recent blue crisp Arctic horizon. 

The crew are subdued but in good spirits albeit a little tired after the rough Atlantic crossing, long working days and the sudden lack of awe inspiring scenery of Greenland’s coastline. Sailing in towards the mountains around Nuuk after being starved of land felt like sailing into a new world, a different planet which for those who hadn’t seen it could only silently gaze in amazement bereft of the ability to speak.

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