Tundra News

Posted May 10, 2008:

• Federal Polar Bear Research Critically Flawed, Forecasting Expert Asserts

Posted May 5, 2008:

• Rocks Under The Northern Ocean Are Found To Resemble Ones Far South

Posted May 2, 2008:

• Global Warming Linked To Caribou-calf Mortality
• Three-in-Five Chance Of Record Low Arctic Sea Ice In 2008, According to New Forecast

Posted May 1, 2008:

• Scientists Head To Warming Alaska On Ice Core Expedition

Posted April 28, 2008:

• For Good Or Ill, Ireland Gains Another Mammal Species

Posted April 27, 2008:

• Rare Musk Ox May Be Threatened By Climate Change

Posted April 26, 2008:

• Arctic Marine Mammals On Thin Ice

Posted April 24, 2008:

• Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Dioxide And Methane, Rise Sharply In 2007

Posted April 23, 2008:

• Antarctic Deep Sea Gets Colder

Posted April 22, 2008:

• Arctic Ice More Vulnerable To Sunny Weather, New Study Shows

Posted April 18, 2008:

• Seven Months On A Drifting Ice Floe

Posted April 16, 2008:

• Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, Largest In Northern Hemisphere, Has Fractured Into Three Main Pieces

Posted April 9, 2008:

• Why Is Arctic Sea Ice Melting Faster Than Predicted? NOAA Probing Arctic Pollution

Posted April 4, 2008:

• Airborne Study Of Arctic Atmosphere, Air Pollution Launched

Posted April 3, 2008:

• Protection For Polar Bears Urged By National Wildlife Federation

Posted March 26, 2008:

• Bear Spray A Viable Alternative To Guns For Deterring Bears, Study Shows
• Shorebirds' Migratory Wetland Habitat Declining Fast

Posted March 21, 2008:

• Arctic Pollution's Surprising History: Explorers Saw Particulate Haze In Late 1800s
• Satellites Can Help Arctic Grazers Survive Killer Winter Storms

Posted March 19, 2008:

• Arctic Sea Ice Still At Risk Despite Cold Winter, NASA Says

Posted March 17, 2008:

• Huge Iceberg Splits In Southern Atlantic Ocean

Posted March 12, 2008:

• Arctic Climate Models Playing Key Role In Polar Bear Decision

Posted March 11, 2008:

• Stratospheric Ozone Chemistry Plays An Important Role For Atmospheric Airflow Patterns

Posted March 7, 2008:

• New Method To Estimate Sea Ice Thickness

Posted March 5, 2008:

• Warming Climate May Cause Arctic Tundra To Burn

Posted February 19, 2008:

• Caribou And Northern Indigenous People: Seeking Sustainability In A World Of Instability

Posted February 16, 2008:

• Dissolved Organic Carbon From Rivers Can Strongly Impact Arctic Ocean

Posted February 15, 2008:

• Robot Plumbs Wisconsin Lake On Way To Antarctica, Jovian Moon

Posted February 12, 2008:

• Continental Slope Off Alaska 100 Nautical Miles Further Off Coast Than Assumed

Posted February 2, 2008:

• Baffin Island Ice Caps Shrink By 50 Percent Since 1950s, Expected To Disappear by Middle of Century

Posted January 31, 2008:

• Oil Exploration In Arctic Highly Risky: 'Response Gap' In Case Of Oil Spill, According To New Report

Posted January 17, 2008:

• 2007 Was Tied As Earth's Second Warmest Year

Posted January 15, 2008:

• High Degree Of Antibiotic Resistance Found In Wild Arctic Birds

Posted January 13, 2008:

• Older Arctic Sea Ice Replaced By Young, Thin Ice

Posted January 7, 2008:

• Polar Bears Threatened: Million Of Acres To Be Opened To Oil And Gas Activities

Posted December 18, 2007:

• Arctic Expeditions Find Giant Mud Waves, Glacier Tracks Underwater

Posted December 17, 2007:

• Without Its Insulating Ice Cap, Arctic Surface Waters Warm To As Much As 5 C Above Average

Posted December 13, 2007:

• Rising Carbon Dioxide Signals Wetter Storms For Northern Hemisphere, Study Says

Posted December 10, 2007:

• Melting Ice Displaces Walruses In The Russian Arctic

Posted November 27, 2007:

• Environmental Researchers Propose Radical 'Human-centric' Map Of The World
• Bear Hunting Altered Genetics More Than Ice Age Isolation

Posted November 23, 2007:

• Canada Sets Aside Vast Northern Wilderness For Conservation

Posted November 16, 2007:

• 'Cooling Down' Begins At Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Posted November 14, 2007:

• Arctic Ocean Circulation Does An About-Face

Posted October 29, 2007:

• Arctic Ice Breaking-up Faster Than Predicted, Icebergs Risk To Shipping

Posted October 26, 2007:

• Methane Bubbling From Arctic Lakes, Now And At End Of Last Ice Age

Posted October 2, 2007:

• Arctic Sea Ice Extent May Have Fallen By 50 Percent Since 1950s

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