Arctic
Welcome to the Arctic Portal!
This Portal will be developed and maintained by a team of leading scientists, other experts, members of the indigenous communities, leaders of government and industry of the Arctic region who are familiar with and knowledgeable about the major issues concerning the people, communities, governments, business/industry, NGOs and other organizations concerned with the Arctic region.
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Featured Article
Arctic Vegetation Zones are very Likely to Shift, Causing Wide-Ranging Impacts
Shifting Vegetation Zones Climate-induced changes in arctic landscapes are important to local people and animals in terms of food, fuel, culture, and habitat. These changes also have the potential...
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Featured Blog Post
Global Warming - What do we know and what can we do?
Global climate change due to increasing atmospheric greenhouse gases is a controversial issue. We need to talk about the scientific basis for greenhouse climate change and its likely impacts on...
Featured Resource
Gary Braasch
See Gary's ManyOne Gallery Gary Braasch covers environmental issues and conservation, biodiversity and field science, climate change and global warming in stock photography and assignments. Photographs of landscape, patterns, forests,...
Latest News
Shell Oil CEO Predicts Oil Shortage Within Seven Years
World demand for oil and gas will outstrip supply within seven years, according to Royal Dutch Shell. January 25, 2008 Carl Mortished, UK Times The oil multinational is predicting that...
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Articles
Arctic marine fisheries provide an important food source globally, and a vital part of the economy of the regi...
About this Collection The last two decades of the 20th century produced mounting evidence that climate change ...
Almost four million people live in the Arctic today, with the precise number depending on where the boundary i...
Polaris, the North Star, is located almost directly above the North Pole. Around it are the stars that form th...
This Heading Earth's climate is changing, with the global temperature now rising at a rate unprecedented in th...
The Arctic is extremely vulnerable to observed and projected climate change and its impacts. The Arctic is now...
Increasing Precipitation: Arctic precipitation has increased by about 8% on average over the past century. Muc...
News Articles
On Monday, November 5th, AYEA graduate Cheryl Lockwood testified before a Congressional Select Committee on ...
Dec. 10, 2007 The 2007 melt extent on the Greenland ice sheet broke the 2005 summer melt record by 10 percent...
Resources
The Arctic is a vast, ice-covered ocean, surrounded by tree-less, frozen ground, that teems with life, inclu...
An international project of the Arctic Council and the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), to evalu...
Relive two ledgendary arctic expeditions - one tragic, one trumphant to pioneer a route through the Northwest ...
Satellite observations show that Arctic sea ice extent has declined over the past three decades [e.g., NOAA ...
See David's ManyOne portal. Holding a passion for the world and an eye for the beauty it contains, northe....jpg)
Ann Hawthorne David Rootes Dave Saunders Fiona Hall Frank Todd Hans Jensen Hans Reinhard John Hyde Keith...- The projected climatic changes in the Arctic, particularly the projected decrease in sea-ice extent and thickn...
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