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#130700
2021-10-12

Carbon dissolved in Arctic rivers affects our world—here's how to study it

In a pair of recently published papers, Michael Rawlins, a professor in the University of Massachusetts Amherst's geosciences department and associate director of the Climate System Research Center, has made significant gains in filling out our understanding of the Arctic's carbon cycle—or the w ...

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#118622
2018-10-23

Changes in snow coverage threaten biodiversity of Arctic nature

Many of the plants inhabiting northern mountains depend on the snow cover lingering until late spring or summer. Snow provides shelter for plants from winter-time extreme events but at the same time it shortens the length of growing season, which prevents the establishment of more southern plant ...

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#134831
2022-06-02

Climate Change Could Completely Consume the Siberian Tundra by 2050, Studies Show

As we know, the Arctic tundra won't be around much longer. Climate change is causing the sea levels to rise, and the ice to melt, which is also, in turn, wiping out the plant and animal species that live there. And unfortunately things aren't much different in Siberia.

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#131292
2021-10-29

Climate Change Is Affecting Polar Bear Diet

Climate change is disproportionately affecting the polar regions. In a paper published earlier this year, researchers from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) revealed that in the last just the last 50 years, the Arctic warmed up by nearly three times quicker than the rest of t ...

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#124091
2020-02-05

Climate Change Is Moving Russia's Taiga North, Scientists Warn

The Taiga forests of Siberia have expanded north toward the Arctic as a result of warming temperatures over the past four decades, a team of Russian and Finnish scientists has said.

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#127901
2021-04-06

Climate Change May Double The Number Of Lighting Strikes In The Arctic

Lightning strikes are an extremely rare phenomenon in the Arctic Circle – but as the global climate has begun to warm, these events have become more common. Just in 2019, lighting hit 483 kilometers (300 miles) of the North Pole, the northernmost instance on record.

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#127709
2021-03-16

Climate Change and Geopolitics: Monitoring of a Thawing Permafrost

Permafrost thaw is one of the world’s most pressing climate problems, already disrupting lifestyles, livelihoods, economies, and ecosystems in the north, and threatening to spill beyond the boundaries of the Arctic as our planet continues to warm.

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#120174
2019-03-01

Climate Change: Ice Free Summer likely in the Arctic in 20 years -

The Arctic Ocean could encounter summers free of ice in the following 20 years, which is a lot sooner than recently anticipated, except if greenhouse emissions are significantly reduced. -

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#132255
2021-12-21

Climate change could mean some Arctic animals will be more vulnerable to disease spread by insects: researcher

The field of pathogens in northern wildlife is ripe for further study, according to some scientists

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#120261
2019-03-07

Climate change forces Arctic animals to shift feeding habits: study

Seals and whales in the Arctic are shifting their feeding patterns as climate change alters their habitats, and the way they do so may determine whether they survive, a new study has found.

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#132189
2021-12-15

Climate change has destabilized the Earth’s poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril

The ice shelf was cracking up. Surveys showed warm ocean water eroding its underbelly. Satellite imagery revealed long, parallel fissures in the frozen expanse, like scratches from some clawed monster. One fracture grew so big, so fast, scientists took to calling it “the dagger.”

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#118997
2018-12-12

Climate change: Arctic reindeer numbers crash by half

The population of wild reindeer, or caribou, in the Arctic has crashed by more than half in the last two decades. A new report on the impact of climate change in the Arctic revealed that numbers fell from almost 5 million to around 2.1 million animals.

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#120262
2019-03-07

Climate change: Rain melting Greenland ice sheet 'even in winter'

Rain is becoming more frequent in Greenland and accelerating the melting of its ice, a new study has found. Scientists say they're "surprised" to discover rain falling even during the long Arctic winter.

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#122929
2019-11-08

Climate change: Sea ice loss linked to spread of deadly virus

The decline in sea ice seen in the Arctic in recent decades has been linked by scientists to the spread of a deadly virus in marine mammals. Researchers found that Phocine distemper virus (PDV) had spread from animals in the North Atlantic to populations in the North Pacific.

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#132453
2022-01-12

Climate change: Thawing permafrost a triple-threat

Thawing Arctic permafrost laden with billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases not only threatens the region's critical infrastructure but life across the planet, according a comprehensive scientific review.

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#124711
2020-03-17

Climate change: study finds reindeer, bison and horses could help reduce methane emissions in Arctic

Reindeer, bison and horses could play a key role in tackling climate change, locking greenhouse gases into Arctic permafrost by packing down the snow with their hooves, a new study finds.

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#128716
2021-05-20

Climate crisis behind drastic drop in Arctic wildlife populations – report

A drastic drop in caribou and shorebird populations is a reflection of the dire changes unfolding on the Arctic tundra, according to a new report from the Arctic Council.

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#128955
2021-06-01

Climate explained: why is the Arctic warming faster than other parts of the world?

What is Arctic amplification? Do we know what is causing this phenomenon? What effects is it having, both in the region and for the world? Is Antarctica experiencing the same thing?

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#131984
2021-11-29

Climate tipping points: The Arctic is a bellwether for irreversible change

The warship HMS Terror lies at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean in the Northwest passage, lost in 1848 after two grueling years stuck in the Arctic ice. Rescue missions launched to recover the ship in 1851 suffered the same fate, crushed under the year-round ice that encased Northern Canada and th ...

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#123924
2020-01-23

Closing the Ozone Hole Helped Slow Arctic Warming

The international treaty that saved the Earth’s ozone layer is often considered one of the most successful environmental efforts in history. Now there’s evidence it did more than just preserve a critical shield for the planet.

Organization

#7346

Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna

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Meeting
#1844

Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) X Biennial Meeting

14 - 16 September 2004, Anchorage, Alaska, United States of America

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#125088
2020-04-13

Coronavirus Halts Arctic Climate Change Research

Every year 150 climate scientists fly far into the wilderness and bore deep into Greenland's largest glacier. Their work is complicated and important. The EastGRIP project is trying to understand how ice streams underneath the glacier are pushing vast amounts of ice into the ocean, and how this ...

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#986
2007-12-20
Action by
2008-01-07

Corrigendum - International Expert Meeting on Responses to Climate Change for Indigenous and Local Communities and the impact on their Traditional Knowledge related to Biological Diversity The Arctic Region, Helsinki, Finland, 25-28 March 2008

Reference: SCBD/SEL/OJ/SG/61053 (2007-153)
To: CBD National Focal Points and Indigenous and Local Communities

I am pleased to inform Parties, international agencies, indigenous and local community representatives, and other stakeholders, that thanks to the generous financial support from the Government of Finland, an international expert meeting for the Arctic region on “responses to climate change for ...

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#126391
2020-12-21

Crab-22: how Norway's fisheries got rich – but on an invasive species

The Norwegian fishing village of Bugøynes, 310 miles north of the Arctic Circle and a frigid, dark place for much of the year, was on the edge of ruin.

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#123655
2020-01-10

Cracks in Arctic sea ice turn low clouds on and off

The prevailing view has been that more leads are associated with more low-level clouds during winter. But University of Utah atmospheric scientists noticed something strange in their study of these leads: when lead occurrence was greater, there were fewer, not more clouds.

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#132286
2022-01-04

Dam it: beavers head north to the Arctic as tundra continues to heat up

The transformation of the rapidly warming Arctic is being accelerated by a wave of thousands of newcomers that are waddling and paddling northwards: beavers.

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#121031
2019-05-13

Defending the defenders: tropical forests in the front line

“Climate change is hitting hardest those who have done least to cause it, especially the world’s indigenous peoples from the Arctic to the tropics,” said renowned actor and activist Alec Baldwin speaking at the 18th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York o ...

Meeting Document
#97837
2014-03-02

Document

IUCN/NRDC Workshop to Identify Areas of Ecological and Biological Significance or Vulnerability in the Arctic

Meeting Document
#97835
2014-03-02

Document

Finland submission: Specially Designed Marina Areas in the Arctic High Seas

Meeting Document
#97802
2014-02-27

Document

Russian Federation Submission: Atlas of Marine and Coastal Biological Diversity of the Russian Arctic

Meeting Document
#97803
2014-02-27

Document

Saami Council Submission: Sensitive Sea Areas in Arctic Norway

Meeting Document
#97836
2014-03-02

Document

UNU TK Initiative Submission: Traditional knowledge relating to Arctic marine species and habitats

Meeting Document
#38807
2013-07-17

Document

Ivanov, A. N. and V.A. Spiridonov. An approach to marine bioregionalization in the Russian Arctic for the purposes of planning marine protected areas and other areas in need of protection

Meeting Document
#108140
2016-04-14

Document

Report of the Arctic Regional Workshop to Facilitate the Description of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas

Meeting Document
#111040
2016-11-23

Document

Report of the Arctic Regional Workshop to Facilitate the Description of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas

News Headlines
#131894
2021-11-24

EU's Arctic policy is not 'convenience' but necessity

The reason for the increased attention is that the Arctic is becoming a new stage for some of the most defining issues of our time: climate change, the urgent need for inclusive and sustainable development, and geopolitics.

News Headlines
#135217
2022-07-05

Eavesdropping on whales in the high Arctic

Whales are huge, but they live in an even larger environment—the world's oceans. Researchers use a range of tools to study their whereabouts, including satellite tracking, aerial surveys, sightings and deploying individual hydrophones to listen for their calls.

News Headlines
#133231
2022-02-15

Erosion due to climate change is destroying the Arctic coastline

We may lose up to three meters of coastline in the Arctic every year by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced, according to a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. The authors also warn about bigger waves due to increasing temperatures, making the coastline very vulner ...

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#127059
2021-02-12

Estonians to sail to the Arctic to draw attention to climate change

In the summer of 2021, a group of Estonian sailors and scientists are planning a sailing trip to the Arctic; the purpose of the trip is to draw attention to climate change in the region.

News Headlines
#128914
2021-05-31

First Person: The ‘Human Swan’ inspiring climate action

Australian biologist Sacha Dench has been nicknamed “the Human Swan”, in recognition of her record-breaking, 7,000 kilometre, paramotor (motorized paraglider) flight, tracking Bewick swans across 11 countries, from Arctic Russian to the UK. Ahead of International Day for Biological Diversity, Ms ...

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#130959
2021-10-19

Five facts to help you understand sea ice

One way that scientists monitor climate change is through the measure of sea ice extent. Sea ice extent is the area of ice that covers the Arctic Ocean at a given time. Sea ice plays an important role in reflecting sunlight back into space, regulating ocean and air temperature, circulating ocean ...

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#120718
2019-04-10

Glaciers and arctic ice are vanishing. Time to get radical before it's too late

Forget “early warning signs” and “canaries in coal mines” – we’re now well into the middle of the climate change era, with its epic reshaping of our home planet. Monday’s news, from two separate studies, made it clear that the frozen portions of the earth are now in violent and dramatic flux.

News Headlines
#129375
2021-06-16

Global warming may have already passed irreversible tipping point

Global warning may have already passed an irreversible tipping point, the scientist who led the biggest-ever expedition to the Arctic has warned.

News Headlines
#119735
2019-02-01

Grad student finds adding fresh carbon to permafrost triggers carbon loss

Permafrost underlies nearly 85 percent of Alaska and nearly a quarter of the landmass in the northern hemisphere. This perennially frozen soil contains twice as much carbon as is found in the Earth's atmosphere. Since the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, understanding c ...

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#135041
2022-06-22

Here's how one group of polar bears is adapting to climate change

Rising temperatures are melting the Arctic sea-ice on which polar bears hunt, limiting their access to food. A recent study has found a remote population of polar bears that have adapted to hunt on chunks of glacier ice.

News Headlines
#124814
2020-03-20

Hidden source of carbon found at the Arctic coast

A previously unknown significant source of carbon just discovered in the Arctic has scientists marveling at a once overlooked contributor to local coastal ecosystems—and concerned about what it may mean in an era of climate change.

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#129734
2021-07-27

High concentrations of 'forever' chemicals being released from ice melt into the Arctic Ocean

Known as 'forever' chemicals due to the fact they do not break down in the environment, poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are used in a wide range of products and processes from fire proofing to stain resistant surfaces.

News Headlines
#127452
2021-03-02

How Arctic sea ducks develop herd immunity from avian cholera

Herd immunity, when a threshold proportion of a population becomes immune to a disease-causing organism, reducing or stopping further transmission, is very much in the news. Avian cholera much less so.

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#135370
2022-07-20

How Climate Change Might Impact Disease Outbreak in Antarctic Fish

Scientists investigate a particular kind of fish that has evolved to survive in the severe arctic climate. However, on a field trip in 2018, they discovered an unusual phenomenon: several of the fish had terrible skin tumors.

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