Postcards from the Arctic: Documenting Ice Loss in Canada’s Rocky Mountains By: Andrea Sparrow & Kerry Koepping Canada opened its borders to US citizens in late summer. While Covid-19 continues to make travel challenging, the Arctic Arts team jumped through all the hoops and headed to the mountains in Alberta and British Columbia to see how …
Postcards from the Arctic: Iceland 2021
Postcards From the Arctic: Iceland 2021 By: Andrea Sparrow Our team’s travels to Iceland were a wonderful success! There have been a number of scientific papers recently about glacial ice loss in peri-arctic and high alpine regions around the world. Our intention was to see for ourselves how several of Iceland’s glaciers have changed over …

Melting ice floods the Arctic with fresh water, and it may cool Europe
The Arctic is undergoing a significant transformation as a result of climate change. A new NASA-led study has revealed that the ice melt is flooding one of the region’s significant ocean currents with fresh water.

Explainer: Nine ‘tipping points’ that could be triggered by climate change
While climate records are being routinely broken, the cumulative impact of these changes could also cause fundamental parts of the Earth system to change dramatically and irreversibly.

Arctic Sea Ice: Live chart of global sea ice shows 2016 falling way below any other year.
NSIDC- Arctic Sea Ice News According to NSIDC data, the Global sea ice area record for lowest minimum has just been broken, as shown on this Wipneus graph (world famous now because of what happened after September last year; see the dark red line on the right side of the graph which should be …

Why Some Scientists are Worried About a Surprisingly Cold “Blob” in the North Atlantic Ocean
By Chris Mooney Ernest Shackleton, an early Antarctic explorer, once said, “What the ice gets, the ice keeps.” This means that once something is covered in ice, it and any associated information is preserved in the ice. Items can be large, such as animals that were on the glacier surface during a surprise snowstorm, or …