Arctic Ocean Acidification, from pteropods to walrus
© WWF-Canon / Kevin Schafer I have always been fascinated by the effects of climate change on our planet. What is so interesting with the Arctic is that climate change occurs twice as fast in high...
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© Erling Svensen / WWF-Canon During the opening day of the conference on Arctic Ocean Acidification, I was bombarded by technical vocabulary like omega aragonites*, fracturation in alkalinity and...
View ArticleArctic ocean acidification: winners and losers
Today at the international conference on Arctic Ocean Acidification, we’re talking about socioeconomic issues. The increasing acidity of Arctic waters is a complex story where some marine species will...
View ArticleUnited States leadership in the Arctic
The Canadian Coast Guard Ship Louis S. St-Laurent ties up to the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy in the Arctic Ocean Sept. 5,2009. The two ships are taking part in a multi-year, multi-agency Arctic survey...
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Sawyer Glacier. Alaska, Tracy Arm.© Dr. Terry McTigue, NOAA, NOS, NCCOS, CCMA. Larry Hinzman is the Director of the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is...
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Harbour crab, Lofoten, Norway. © Wild Wonders of Europe /Magnus Lundgren / WWF Dr. Thomas Armstrong is the Deputy Secretary of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme and leads the Adaptation...
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