The Army never finished what it started at Camp Century. It abandoned the base in 1967, scrapping Project Iceworm, as its secret mission was called. But the Army left behind a nasty legacy buried under all that ice and snow — tons of toxic waste that military officials assumed would stay frozen forever.
China is aiming to work more closely with Russia in the future in the Arctic region. The plan is reportedly to create a new “Polar Silk Road” to complement the existing “belt and road” plans further south.
The protection of carbon-storing peatlands, the better management of soil erosion problems and the world’s grasslands, and the planting of forests where appropriate would account for around 37% of all of the actions needed by 2030 as per the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement, according to a new study published in the journal The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Parts of Greenland are on fire right now. Which is impressive when you consider that almost all of the massive body of land is covered by an enormous ice sheet. Apparently, wildfires aren’t unknown in Greenland, but they are very rare.
The Greenland ice sheet is likely to be heavily contaminated with various globally emitted pollutants — such as PCBs, mercury, lead, PAHs, etc. — according to new research published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
The skies over Greenland have become sunnier in recent years, and this has been driving the melting of the ice sheet there to a notable degree — in other words, it’s not just rising temperatures that are causing the ice sheet there to melt. This is according to a new study from the University of Bristol.
Following 2016’s record-breaking heat (the year marked a new record as regards global average temperature), and 2017’s already quite strange weather, we are now in “truly uncharted territory,” according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released its 2015–2016 Arctic Report Card, providing specific data points to go along with the very weird weather of the last year.
2016 is very likely to be the hottest year on record when it’s over, according to a new assessment from the World Meteorological Organization. As it stands, preliminary data are showing that global temperatures in 2016 are roughly 1.2° Celsius above pre-industrial levels — not far below the supposed “safe” limit of 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
The portion of the Greenland ice sheet covering the Cold War–era US military base known as Camp Century — also known as “the city under the ice” — could start to melt by the end of the century, according to new research from CIRES (a partnership between NOAA and the … [continued]
