Blogposts tagged 'Sea Ice'

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

Bearing down on us at 80 degrees North

Posted by jossg - 6 September 2011 at 10:57am - 2 Comments
All rights reserved. Credit: Greenpeace / Nick Cobbing
Polar bear and cub in the Arctic

Woken up as usual at 7.30 for breakfast and cleaning, I'd had a shower and was getting clothed when someone said 'polar bears outside'. I said to Ethan, the assistant cook who is also my roomie, who has been aboard two weeks already: 'Wow, they're saying there's polar bears outside.' He replied, 'Nah, there isn't man. They're just saying that to get us up.' 'Well, I'm popping outside to check.'

Article tagged as: arctic, arctic sunrise, climate change, go beyond oil, polar bears, sea ice

Into thin ice and heading back to the Arctic

Posted by Frida Bengtsson - 25 August 2011 at 5:06pm - 2 Comments
Polar bear rests on a floe of Arctic sea ice in the Labrador Sea
All rights reserved. Credit: Jiri Rezac / Greenpeace
The Arctic sea ice is getting smaller - and thinner - each year

The cracking and rumbling when the ship pushes the ice flows aside to make passage; the countless shades of blue and white in the ice, sea, and melt water; the feeling of being completely removed from the ordinary world, without phones or internet.

Article tagged as: arctic, arctic sunrise, climate change, sea ice, ships

Arctic melts away as sea ice likely to be declared third lowest on record

Posted by christian - 17 September 2009 at 1:47pm - 18 Comments

Scientists aboard our ship the MV Arctic Sunrise measure the thickness of the Arctic sea ice.

Today we're expecting an announcement from the National Snow and Ice Data Centre - the US body that monitors the Arctic - about the 'seasonal low' of Arctic sea ice for 2009.

Every year, the Arctic sea ice - the floating cap of frozen ocean that sits over the north of the planet - shrinks and grows with the seasons. In the Arctic summer it melts away and gets smaller, in winter it grows and get bigger. It being mid-September we've just passed the height of Arctic summer, and today the NSIDC will tell us how small the ice cap got this year.

Article tagged as: arctic sunrise, climate change, NSIDC, sea ice

Greenland's shrinking glaciers

Posted by jossc - 25 August 2009 at 11:04am - 6 Comments

The Arctic Sunrise is in Greenland to survey melting glaciers and observe the effects of climate change. In this latest update from the tour, Indian journalist Gaurav Sawant decribes his experiences aboard and ponders the implications for the sub-continent. But first web editor Juliette sets the scene...

India seems (and is) quite far away from Greenland and the Arctic. Yet, with the world's second largest population and with major cities like Mumbai (parts of which lie just a few metres above sea level), the country cannot ignore what is happening. India is now a major player in international politics. If its population and leaders start making climate change the political priority, the world will listen.

Article tagged as: arctic, arctic sunrise, climate change, greenland, sea ice, ships

Greenpeace admits: BBC got it wrong about arctic sea ice melting

Posted by jamie - 20 August 2009 at 4:18pm - 18 Comments

You may have already seen this on our Making Waves blog, but for the sake of completeness (and to help demolish the climate denial zombie that's risen once more) here's Brian's piece on the arctic sea ice controversy.

The right-wing, conservative, climate-denial blog-and-twitosphere is abuzz with the news: Greenpeace admits live on the BBC that it lied about arctic melting.

That's not true, it's being promoted by the handful of global warming skeptics still standing, and we're hitting back. You can help us by tweeting, blogging, and sharing this clarification on Facebook.

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

Video: Fish on climate change and China

Posted by jossc - 14 August 2009 at 11:21am - 2 Comments

Just in via our Climate Rescue weblog, here's a beautiful little filmic essay on the realities of climate change from Greenpeace China campaigner Xin Yu (otherwise known as "Fish"), made aboard the Arctic Sunrise during the current expedition to monitor a 100 km2 ice island breaking off Greenland's Petermann glacier.

Article tagged as: arctic, arctic sunrise, china, climate change, co2 emissions, sea ice, ships, videos

New wallpapers: sunbathing polar bears and melting glaciers

Posted by jossc - 7 August 2009 at 11:04am - 0 Comments

More breathtaking images just in from Nick Cobbing, aboard the Arctic Sunrise in Greenland, where the crew are working with leading climate scientists to monitor the break-up of the Petermann Glacier.

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Nick Cobbing's images of the Arctic

Posted by christian - 17 July 2009 at 4:55pm - 0 Comments

Cobbing Sunrise

Photographer Nick Cobbing's spectacular photos from the Arctic Sunrise's Arctic expedition are featured on the Telegraph website here. Take a look, for ice sheets, kayaking along meltwater rivers, and polar bears in their natural habitat.

 

Article tagged as: arctic, arctic sunrise, climate change, glaciers, sea ice

Racing icebergs at the top of the world

Posted by dave - 29 June 2009 at 12:08pm - 0 Comments

Arctic Sunrise off Greenland

The MV Arctic Sunrise off Greenland © Greenpeace/Morton

Dave is onboard the Arctic Sunrise, heading north up the coast of Greenland.

Blue and white icebergs are looming through the sea mist as I write this, from the campaign office of the Arctic Sunrise, in Baffin Bay. Our ship - an old sealing vessel - is just south of the wonderfully named Disko Island, or Qeqertarsuaq, off the west coast of Greenland. A seal just popped its head up, to check out who is passing by. And we just crossed the Arctic Circle.

Article tagged as: arctic, arctic sunrise, climate change, greenland, sea ice, ships
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