National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen has opened his first gallery in the city of New York, United States. It focuses on animals, the environment and the risks they both face due to climate change through images shot in diverse areas of the world including the Arctic and Antarctica. I’m taking over the @pewenvironment account this week, starting today on
The Arctic is registering an unusual winter this year. While temperatures hit a new record in November, it is now sea ice cover to have recorded its lowest extent at a time when it should be at its maximum extent. In January 2017 the ice cover was 13.38 million square kilometres, the lowest extent in almost
Alarming data come from the Arctic Circle. Abnormal temperatures and near-record low sea ice coverage. Experts warn: “Lost ice can’t recover”.
A team of scientists recorded the excruciating sounds of glaciers melting. Different artists sampled them and transformed them into songs.
Thanks to satellite data systems NASA has been monitoring 1,000 hectares of land across Canada and Alaska. The tundra has already changed because of global warming.
Glacial retreat is when glacial melt occurs faster than new seasonal snow and ice have time to accumulate. In this 90 second video Professor Ben Orlove, Director of the Columbia Centre for Research on Environmental Decisions, explains how, for a mountain, losing its glaciers is like losing the Twin Towers for New York. The video
In 40 years, the Arctic will run out of ice during summer months, as proven by the lowest icecap winter extension ever registered by satellites last March. It is a phenomenon involving half of the Arctic ice. These are some of the effects caused by the on-going climate change, documented by WWF in
A picture taken in Svalbard clearly shows the phenomenon of arctic ice melting that is threatening polar bears survival.
The Canadian segment of the Rocky Mountains could undergo a drastic transformation, in less than 90 years. In fact, according to study carried out by the University of British Columbia and published by Nature Geoscience, Canada is likely to lose 70% of its glaciers by 2100, due to global warming. The province of
Antarctica, otherwise known as the sixth continent, recorded an increase of 70% in the rate of shrinking over the last decade (1994-2003). The thickness of ice shelves in the South Pole is thinner and thinner, and it could even halve within 200 years. The research containing the data was published by Science magazine,
