When spring 2015 approaches, sun spilling the landscape will find a group of scientists adrift at sea on “RV Lance” – once a top-of-the-line seal hunting boat, now turned research vessel.
Climate change is a hot topic, and the issue is even “hotter” in the arctic since vast carbon stores make the north more sensitive to rising global temperatures.
During the last decades warmer Atlantic water has caused a retreat of the ice edge north of Svalbard. In contrast to other areas of the Arctic Ocean, the largest ice loss north of Svalbard occurred during winter.
INARI: Forest expert Trude Myhre with WWF Norway says protecting the unique taiga forest is a key to fighting biodiversity loss and climate change. Recommendations for expanding protected areas were given at the Barents Enviro-Ministers’ meeting.
INARI: Renewable and clean energy production was highlighted as a great possibility by Finland’s Minister of Environment Ville Niinistö when the Barents Action plan on climate change was approved Thursday.
Dramatic impact of sea level rising along the eastern shores of the White Sea, Barents Sea and Gulf of Bothnia. In northwest-Russia, the tundra would overflow and cities like Arkhangelsk and Severodvinsk would be wiped out.
TROMSØ: Greenpeace demands that Foreign Minister Børge Brende and his Nordic colleagues raise concern over the 28 activists and two photographers detained in Murmansk after protesting Russia’s Arctic oil drilling.
Unlike the famous Glenn Frey song, it’s not on the street, but in the surface water of the Barents Sea that right now is 5 Degrees Celsius warmer than normal.
