Arctic
This is a Place page. See also Global Warming Page and related link, as well as Sea Level Rise.
This page refer to both poles (hence bi-polar).
Overview for WWF.
Overview 5/13.
John Kerry 5/13.
Daily update images,
News/Reports
Melting Glaciers Causing 25 to 30% of Sea Level Rise 4/19.
Eyeing Trump, Obama Bans Arctic Drilling (also off the East Coast).
Shell Abandons Arctic Drilling Following ‘Disappointing’ Results whoohoo! 9/15.
Penguins in trouble 1/16.
Watch 25 Years of Arctic Sea Ice Melt in One Minute 12/15.
From Rising Seas to Walruses, the Arctic's Endangerment Affects Us All 12/15.
Good overview on Arctic drilling 8/15.
Paddle in Seattle, kayactivists take on Shell 5/15.
Plastic Trash Found in Arctic Ocean, Likely Forming Sixth Garbage Patch 10/15.
Why have an underwater cabinet meeting? here's the answer: narrated by NPR's Richard Harris (Go Slugs!) 5/15.
Climate change is messing with gravity again 5/15.
6 Greenpeace Activists Scale Shell’s Oil Rig to Protest Arctic Drilling 4/15 see Activism.
Glacial Melting In Antarctica Makes Continent The 'Ground Zero Of Global Climate Change' 3/15.
Legendary Iditarod Sled Dog Race Moved North As Alaska Deals With Climate Change 2/15.
The Methane Monster Roars, positive feedback loop can lead to tipping point. 1/15.
Largest number of walruses seen ashore in Alaska is sign of ‘tremendous change’ in climate how much ice is left? PBS Newshour video 10/14.
Two geological features in Antarctica are named after UCSC biologists—Terrie Bluff and Costa Spur, named in honor of Terrie Williams and Daniel Costa, respectively, professors of ecology and evolutionary biology.
Russia treaty holdout Nyet. 10/14.
Warmer Air Caused Huge Ice Shelf To Collapse Off Antarctica, Scientists Say 9/14.
Study Links Polar Vortex Chills To Melting Sea Ice . See Global Warming.
Must-See Video: Arctic Emergency, Scientists Speak 8/14.
Thanks to shrinking sea ice, National Geographic puts global warming on the map literally. 6/14
Japan accepts court ban on Antarctic whaling 3/14.
Melting Sea Ice And Arctic Drilling: A Risky Combination 2/14
Dahr Jamail, The Climate Change Scorecard 12/13.
Is global warming stoking an Arctic cold war?
Arctic catches a break, but ... 12/13.
Arctic Temperatures Reach Highest Levels In 44,000 Years, Study Finds 10/13.
Writer Mark Seth Lender has been travelling on the edge of the arctic ongoing blog reports. 10/13.
An Unprecedented Antarctic Disaster, Unfolding in Darkness 10/13.
Records For Arctic Ice Melt, Greenhouse Gas Emissions In 2012 As World Continues To Warm: Report 8/13.
Arctic Methane Release Due To Climate Change Could Cost Global Economy $60 Trillion, Study Reports 7/13.
Antarctic marine reserve plans scuppered by Russia 7/13
International Commission Mulls Antarctic Sanctuary Plans 7/13.
6/13 update with video on ice loss.
Warming oceans are killing baby puffins but These adorable dogs protect endangered penguins, make your heart grow three sizes, just to balance you out.
Arctic base evacuated as ice dissolves beneath researchers’ feet. 5/13.
Arctic (global warming twice as fast at poles)Arctic Methane Leak Research Looks For Signs Of Accelerating Climate Change 10/12.
Keep the Arctic Cold: Why the Rush to Drill Must Be Stopped overview 5/13.
video on ice measurement. good summary of why Artic matters video.
US schizophrenic policy, new report 5/13.
Greenland ice breakup (images).
Ocean Acidification Threatens Arctic Ecosystem, Study Shows 5/13.
The Arctic Ice Crisis Greenland’s glaciers are melting far faster than scientists expected (so much for HimalayaGate etc) 8/12 9/12 update. video on ice measurement.
Google Earth GIFs, 'Timelapse' Project, Show Startling Impact Of Humans On The Planet, including ice loss 5/13.
Melting Sea Ice (faster than predicted) 10/11
It's Getting Warm On Mount Everest 5/13.
Whale migration patterns changing 5/13.
Images/Maps
Stunning Drone Footage Shows Greenland Literally Melting Away 10/15.
Thanks to shrinking sea ice, National Geographic puts global warming on the map literally. 6/14
North Pole Melting Leaves Small Lake At The Top Of The World (VIDEO). 7/13.
Video
Watch 25 Years of Arctic Sea Ice Melt in One Minute 12/15.
Must-See Video: Arctic Emergency, Scientists Speak 8/14.
Arctic Methane: Why The Sea Ice Matters
A World Without Ice link Dr. Henry N. Pollack, author of A World Without Ice, explains why our cold natural wonders are disappearing while humans are prospering. 10/09
Rob Dunbar hunts for data on our climate from 12,000 years ago, finding clues inside ancient seabeds and corals and inside ice sheets. His work is vital in setting baselines for fixing our current climate -- and in tracking the rise of deadly ocean acidification. TEDtalk.
Chasing Ice new documentary about photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the [Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change.TEDtalk 9/10 update audio)
UCTV: In this 2011 Second Annual Keeling Lecture from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, Lonnie G. Thompson, distinguished professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University and recipient of both the National Medal of Science and the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, provides insight into the convincing evidence of climate change provided by glaciers and polar ice-caps, and the implications that inaction in the face of this rapid change will have on societies on a global scale. Link.
Can Greenland's Melting Affect the Jet Stream?.
One Degree Matters follows social and business leaders as they travel to Greenland and experience for themselves the dramatic effects of the melting of the ice cap and come to understand the planetary effects of climate change and the impacts these will have on society and the economy. The film brings to the screen the latest science from the Arctic and shows why a further rise in global temperature of one degree matters for the future of humankind. (57 min)
Audio
Inuit culture threatened by sea level rise (text and audio) 9/10
PBS Now program "On Thin Ice" includes Extreme Ice Survey. 4/09
New ice island breaks off (audio) 8/10
Books
A World Without Ice, a book by Henry Pollack who was a winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change. Google talk video 2009.
Arctic Refuge is a book that arose from a political moment yet contains eloquent wisdom and timely information central to a sustainable vision for our world. The book began as an idea in January 2001, when Alaska residents Hank Lentfer and Carolyn Servid, responding to proposals to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, sent a call to writers across the country. Just seven weeks later, the book was presented to Congress. With contributions by Jimmy Carter, Wendell Berry, Bill McKibben, Terry Tempest Williams, Scott Russell Sanders, and Rick Bass, Arctic Refuge is an ideal introduction to the Refuge and issues surrounding our use of energy and public lands. The book includes the testimony of members of the Gwich'in Nation—whose lives depend on the caribou—as well as wildlife biologists, and other writers from Alaska and across the nation. Link to this and other interesting eco-books.
Local Resources
Cassandra Brooks is a PhD student with the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford University who is studying international ocean policy, particularly focusing on marine protection in the Antarctic. She is currently blogging from a National Science Foundation research cruise in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.video her National Geographic blog.
Dan Costa and his students are tagging marine life to send back realtime information never before available. You can follow activities at TOPP and see Video from KQED's Quest as well as PBS's Ocean Animal Emergency. video from Antarctica.
Andrew Fisher, professor of Earth and planetary sciences and his team study the amount of heat flowing toward the base of the West Antarctic ice sheet from geothermal sources deep within the Earthwhich could provide important data for researchers trying to predict the fate of the ice sheet, which has experienced rapid melting over the past decade.
Slawek Tulaczyk investigates effects of global warming on ice sheets in Anarctica. Tulaczyk and Andrew Fisher, both professors of Earth and planetary sciences, will drill through a half-mile of ice to penetrate subglacial Lake Whillans and study hidden processes that govern the dynamics of the West Antarctic ice sheet. Link. 9/12 update on frozen methane, which could set up global warming feedback loop. Scientists drill through half mile of Antarctic ice for data on ice sheet stability UC Santa Cruz glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk is a chief scientist of the WISSARD project, which has just reached another milestone. 1/15.
Terrie Williams, professor of biology and director of the Marine Mammal Physiology Project (MMPP, (video) working with animals that are trained to voluntarily cooperate in the data collection process, Dr. Williams seeks to answer the important question of what it costs these animals to survive in the ocean) at UCSC's Long Marine Laboratory sprang into action and were ready when an oil-soaked otter arrived from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, where she had been stabilized. Williams has also done research on seals during the Antarctic winter, the harshest season in the harshest environment on Earth. Rare Monk seal rescue. new book on endangered monk seals. (image).
