<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" >

	<channel>
		<title>Conservation news</title>
		<atom:link href="https://news.mongabay.com/feed/?s=&#038;type=post&#038;location=denmark" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
		<link>https://news.mongabay.com/list/denmark/</link>
		<description>Environmental science and conservation news</description>
		<lastBuildDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:17:42 +0000</lastBuildDate>
		<language>en-US</language>
		<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
		<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
		<generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2</generator>

<image>
	<url>https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2020/05/16160320/cropped-mongabay_icon-32x32.png</url>
	<title>Denmark environmental news</title>
	<link>https://news.mongabay.com/list/denmark/</link>
	<width>32</width>
	<height>32</height>
</image> 
				<item>
					<title>Colliding icebergs and chirping seals: Polar ocean sounds are reimagined in art-science collaboration</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/colliding-icebergs-and-chirping-seals-polar-ocean-sounds-are-reimagined-in-art-science-collaboration/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/colliding-icebergs-and-chirping-seals-polar-ocean-sounds-are-reimagined-in-art-science-collaboration/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>06 Dec 2024 02:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jasmin Galvan]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2024/11/30232723/Galvan_3-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=290893</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Antarctica, Arctic, Arctic Ocean, and Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Bioacoustics, Cetaceans, Environment, Green, Marine Mammals, Oceans, and Whales]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[The frigid depths of the polar oceans exist only in the imagination for most people. Images of stark white ice fields and vast expanses of water might lead us to believe that the Arctic and Antarctic oceans are silent, empty settings. However, if you listen below the surface, they come alive with the chirps and [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[The frigid depths of the polar oceans exist only in the imagination for most people. Images of stark white ice fields and vast expanses of water might lead us to believe that the Arctic and Antarctic oceans are silent, empty settings. However, if you listen below the surface, they come alive with the chirps and trills of Weddell seals and the clicks of toothed whales chattering to each other. To engage the public with these remote realms, artist-researcher Geraint Rhys Whittaker of the University of Oldenburg in Germany and his colleagues created the Polar Sounds project. The team provided more than 100 artists with sound recordings from the Ocean Acoustics Group at the Alfred Wegener Institute&#8217;s Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research. The artists treated these recordings as instruments to build upon or transform completely, creating lyrical songs, sonic narratives, and experimental works. “When you put a hydrophone [into the ocean], it opens a whole new world,” said Whittaker. “When I first heard these various sounds from the archive, I was just amazed at the diversity of different sounds.” The frigid waters of Antarctica are full of ice, but under the surface is a dynamic sonic environment. Image credit: bhart9070 from Pixabay The German team created Polar Sounds in collaboration with Cities and Memory to engage the public with ocean research as part of the United Nation’s Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030). They described the project in a paper published recently in Marine Policy. Growing up in the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/colliding-icebergs-and-chirping-seals-polar-ocean-sounds-are-reimagined-in-art-science-collaboration/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/colliding-icebergs-and-chirping-seals-polar-ocean-sounds-are-reimagined-in-art-science-collaboration/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
					<enclosure url="https://mongabay-images.s3.amazonaws.com/audio/Galvan_Sound_1.mp3" length="9656111" type="audio/mpeg" />
<enclosure url="https://mongabay-images.s3.amazonaws.com/audio/Galvan_Sound_2.mp3" length="7305116" type="audio/mpeg" />
<enclosure url="https://mongabay-images.s3.amazonaws.com/audio/Galvan_Sound_3.mp3" length="5306966" type="audio/mpeg" />
					<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-290893</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Killer whales have found new homes in the Arctic Ocean, potentially reshaping marine ecology</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/killer-whales-have-found-new-homes-in-the-arctic-ocean-potentially-reshaping-marine-ecology/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/killer-whales-have-found-new-homes-in-the-arctic-ocean-potentially-reshaping-marine-ecology/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>03 Dec 2024 01:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Caroline Hemphill]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2024/11/29060638/orca-3-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=290908</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Arctic, Arctic Ocean, and Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Biodiversity, Cetaceans, Climate Change, Ecology, Impact Of Climate Change, Mammals, Marine, Marine Animals, Oceans, Sea Ice, Whales, and Wildlife]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are finding a new place to roam in the rapidly changing Arctic Ocean. Though Indigenous people in the region have seen the whales, also known as orcas, pop up sporadically for centuries, the predators now have more access to the chilly waters than ever before. Two distinct killer whale populations now [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are finding a new place to roam in the rapidly changing Arctic Ocean. Though Indigenous people in the region have seen the whales, also known as orcas, pop up sporadically for centuries, the predators now have more access to the chilly waters than ever before. Two distinct killer whale populations now claim habitats in the Arctic, according to a team led by researchers at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. But the whales’ presence raises conservation concerns that may be difficult to address, the team reported recently in Global Change Biology. Orcas follow a research vessel in Tremblay Sound, an inlet at Baffin Island, Canada. Photo credit: Fisheries and Oceans Canada Killer whales haven’t often been able to access the Arctic. Thick ice sheets posed a natural barrier, breaking their dorsal fin if they pushed too hard into it. But as the northern polar regions warm up faster than anywhere else on Earth, the ice melts, letting in more of the voracious predators. The researchers, led by evolutionary geneticist Colin Garroway of the University of Manitoba, were curious about the Arctic’s growing population of killer whales and their impacts. They decided to peek into the genomes of a few of the animals to find out where they came from. Initially, they used samples of blubber and skin collected over time by field biologists. “We did an analysis that’s something like 23AndMe,” said Garroway. The results: Two distinct populations of killer whales were sharing the Arctic&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/killer-whales-have-found-new-homes-in-the-arctic-ocean-potentially-reshaping-marine-ecology/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/killer-whales-have-found-new-homes-in-the-arctic-ocean-potentially-reshaping-marine-ecology/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-290908</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>The new Arctic: Amid record heat, ecosystems morph and wildlife struggle</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/the-new-arctic-amid-record-heat-ecosystems-morph-and-wildlife-struggle/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/the-new-arctic-amid-record-heat-ecosystems-morph-and-wildlife-struggle/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>14 Feb 2024 15:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2024/02/14134109/POSSIBLE-BANNER-IMAGE_35A1906-Image-by-Sharon-Guynup-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=278847</guid>

											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Planetary Boundaries]]>
						</reporting-project>
					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Alaska, Arctic, Arctic Ocean, and Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Extinction, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Impact Of Climate Change, Mammals, Marine, Marine Animals, Ocean Warming, Oceans, Planetary Boundaries, Sea Ice, Sea Levels, Tipping points, and Wildlife]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Over millennia, animals including walruses, seals, lemmings, muskox and migratory birds evolved to survive the polar north’s extreme cold. But on land and at sea, wildlife are struggling to adapt to a rapidly warming climate and altered ecosystems.]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Walruses have traversed the Arctic for millennia, gregarious pinnipeds that rest en masse on drifting pack ice, diving to feed on crabs, clams and other seafloor delicacies. Icy platforms also serve as safe birthing and nursery grounds. But as the far north rapidly warms and sea ice disappears, some herds now huddle on overcrowded shorelines, with deadly consequences for young calves: Because more disturbances occur on shore than at sea, calves are regularly trampled during panicked stampedes by the 1-ton-plus adults. Climate-driven changes are affecting other wildlife across this land of snow and ice. On the Arctic tundra, lemmings now struggle to eat, nest and move during the eight winter months they live beneath the snow, as they endure “weather whiplash,” with ever more severe fluctuations in temperature, snow and rain, says ecologist Dorothee Ehrich, at the Climate Ecological Observatory for Arctic Tundra with Norway’s Arctic University. As warming escalates, animals are on the move, bringing new diseases north. In December, officials reported that H5N1 avian flu infected and killed a polar bear — a global first. This highly infectious strain has circulated internationally since 2021, jumping between species, and has reached the polar region. It’s just one example of new pathogens there, raising serious concern because isolated Arctic species have little immunity to disease. Walruses have a diverse diet, feeding on dozens of genera of marine organisms, but the species prefers bivalve mollusks for which it forages by diving and grazing along the shallow sea bottom. Image © Steve&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/the-new-arctic-amid-record-heat-ecosystems-morph-and-wildlife-struggle/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/the-new-arctic-amid-record-heat-ecosystems-morph-and-wildlife-struggle/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-278847</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>North Atlantic orcas reveal the troubling persistence of toxic ocean pollutants</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/north-atlantic-orcas-reveal-the-troubling-persistence-of-toxic-ocean-pollutants/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/north-atlantic-orcas-reveal-the-troubling-persistence-of-toxic-ocean-pollutants/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>27 Nov 2023 14:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Kristel Tjandra]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023/11/24234954/nitesh-jain-orca_unsplash-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=275880</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Arctic, Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Greenland, and Iceland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Cetaceans, Mammals, Marine Mammals, Oceans, Pollution, Predators, Top Predators, Toxicology, Water Pollution, and Whales]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[With their shiny black tops and pure white undersides, the killer whales, or orcas, are the sleekest hunters in the ocean. But being apex predators comes with a great cost. Their bodies absorb the chemical pollutants that build up in the long chain of prey leading to their meals. Now, a recent study in Environmental [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[With their shiny black tops and pure white undersides, the killer whales, or orcas, are the sleekest hunters in the ocean. But being apex predators comes with a great cost. Their bodies absorb the chemical pollutants that build up in the long chain of prey leading to their meals. Now, a recent study in Environmental Science &amp; Technology has shown that what orcas choose to eat could affect their survival more than scientists thought. Every year over the past decade, a team of international marine biologists went to the North Atlantic Ocean to collect samples of killer whales’ blubber—the fat layer beneath their skin. The study, which covered an area spanning the Canadian Arctic, Eastern Canada, Greenland, Iceland, and Norway, was the most comprehensive of its kind. The team&#8217;s analysis of 162 North Atlantic killer whale (Orcinus orca) samples showed a startling level of various chemical pollutants, despite their remote ranges. “These killer whales are pretty much isolated,” said Anaïs Remili, a marine biologist at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and lead author of the study. “They&#8217;re super elusive, and we don&#8217;t really know where they are. They&#8217;re far away from any human settlement.” Anaïs Remili, on an expedition in Iceland, uses an air gun to shoot darts that collect small samples of blubber from orcas. Credit: Anaïs Remili To collect the blubber samples, Remili and her colleagues shot darts fired from an air gun into the orcas’ skin layer. “You have to approach the whales slowly to make sure&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/north-atlantic-orcas-reveal-the-troubling-persistence-of-toxic-ocean-pollutants/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/north-atlantic-orcas-reveal-the-troubling-persistence-of-toxic-ocean-pollutants/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-275880</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>‘Not a good sign’: Study shows Greenland temperatures at 1,000-year high</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/not-a-good-sign-study-shows-greenland-temperatures-at-1000-year-high/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/not-a-good-sign-study-shows-greenland-temperatures-at-1000-year-high/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>08 Feb 2023 14:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023/02/08142825/20120703_Gletscherschmelze_Groenland_SeppKipfstuhl_006-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=265346</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Climate, Climate Change, Global Warming, Ice Shelves, Research, Science, Sea Levels, and Temperatures]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Collecting core samples from the Greenland ice sheet is no easy task. During a recent expedition, scientists and drilling experts boarded a ski-equipped aircraft and flew to a site at an elevation of about 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) above sea level in central-north Greenland. Then they drilled into the ice sheet with special equipment and [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Collecting core samples from the Greenland ice sheet is no easy task. During a recent expedition, scientists and drilling experts boarded a ski-equipped aircraft and flew to a site at an elevation of about 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) above sea level in central-north Greenland. Then they drilled into the ice sheet with special equipment and packed the extracted cores into insulated boxes that they loaded into the plane’s cargo hold. “It&#8217;s tedious work and it&#8217;s difficult to get to these places,” says Bo Møllesøe Vinther, a physicist at the Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark, who was involved in similar expeditions. “The weather has to be very good for you in order to be able to do this.” Back at the lab, a team of scientists analyzed the isotopic composition of the ice cores to help reconstruct climate conditions on the ice sheets over the last millennium — from the year 1000 to 2011. In a new study published in Nature, they contend that the years between 2001 and 2011 were the warmest during this thousand-year period, and that the region is now 1.5° Celsius (2.7° Fahrenheit) warmer than the long-term average. Study coauthor and glaciologist Johannes Freitag in the AWI ice laboratory with ice core at the saw stand. Freitag and colleagues analyzed the isotopic composition of ice cores from central-north Greenland to help reconstruct climate conditions on the ice sheets over the last millennium. Image by Esther Horvath / AWI. “We show that the impact has reached even the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/not-a-good-sign-study-shows-greenland-temperatures-at-1000-year-high/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/02/not-a-good-sign-study-shows-greenland-temperatures-at-1000-year-high/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-265346</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Greenland shark, world’s longest-living vertebrate, gets long-awaited protection</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/greenland-shark-worlds-longest-living-vertebrate-gets-long-awaited-protection/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/greenland-shark-worlds-longest-living-vertebrate-gets-long-awaited-protection/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>06 Oct 2022 15:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2022/10/06151459/Greenland_shark_profile-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=261235</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Atlantic Ocean, Canada, and Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Bycatch, Charismatic Animals, Conservation, Ecosystems, Elasmobranchs, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Regulations, and Sharks]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Everything about the Greenland shark seems to be slow: these long-bodied animals swim slowly, grow slowly and reach maturity slowly. Their maturity rate is so sluggish, in fact, that scientists believe they don’t start reproducing until they’re about 150 years old — and that they can live anywhere from 270 to 500 years, making them [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Everything about the Greenland shark seems to be slow: these long-bodied animals swim slowly, grow slowly and reach maturity slowly. Their maturity rate is so sluggish, in fact, that scientists believe they don’t start reproducing until they’re about 150 years old — and that they can live anywhere from 270 to 500 years, making them the longest-living known vertebrate on the planet. But the longevity of Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) has made the species particularly vulnerable to overfishing. It’s estimated that about 3,500 individuals are accidentally caught as bycatch by demersal trawling (also called bottom trawling), longlines, and gill nets each year in the Northwest Atlantic, Arctic Ocean and Barents Sea, according to the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority. This, along with historical targeted fishing pressure, has contributed to a decline of about 60% in the past 420 years. In 2020, the Greenland shark’s conservation status on the IUCN Red List worsened from near threatened to vulnerable. In September, the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO), an intergovernmental organization that uses science to manage fisheries, made a historic decision: it prohibited the retention of Greenland sharks in international waters. “It was a long time coming, but not a long time in the life of a Greenland shark,” Sonja Fordham, president of Washington, D.C.-based Shark Advocates International, who attended the recent NAFO meeting in Portugal, told Mongabay. “We were glad that it finally went through, and it&#8217;s the first for that kind of protection for NAFO.” The new rule would prohibit&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/greenland-shark-worlds-longest-living-vertebrate-gets-long-awaited-protection/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/greenland-shark-worlds-longest-living-vertebrate-gets-long-awaited-protection/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-261235</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Greenland’s Indigenous population favors extracting sand from melting ice sheet</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/greenlands-indigenous-population-favours-extracting-sand-from-melting-ice-sheet/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/greenlands-indigenous-population-favours-extracting-sand-from-melting-ice-sheet/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>27 Sep 2022 19:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Moira Donovan]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2022/09/27191608/20280818003_22285261f7_k-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=260729</guid>

											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Covering the Commons and Global Commodities]]>
						</reporting-project>
					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Arctic, Denmark, Greenland, and North America]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Climate, Climate Change, Economics, Environment, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Ice Shelves, Indigenous Peoples, Land Use Change, Mining, and Sea Ice]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Discussions about the Greenland ice sheet often focus on what it’s losing. But from around the edges of the rapidly melting Greenland ice sheet, a global commodity is being created. As the Greenland ice sheet melts—2022 is the 26th year in a row that Greenland lost more ice than it gained—it’s sloughing off enormous volumes [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Discussions about the Greenland ice sheet often focus on what it’s losing. But from around the edges of the rapidly melting Greenland ice sheet, a global commodity is being created. As the Greenland ice sheet melts—2022 is the 26th year in a row that Greenland lost more ice than it gained—it’s sloughing off enormous volumes of sediment. That sediment could in turn be extracted to meet the voracious global appetite for sand. A recent study by researchers at McGill University and the University of Greenland, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, found that the vast majority of Greenlandic adults—eight out of ten surveyed—were in favor of extracting and exporting sand, if the projects doing so were under Greenlandic control. Melted ice sheet pouring out sand in Greenland. Images by Nicola Krog Larsen. The results surprised researchers, given Greenlanders’ at-times fierce opposition to mining projects. But it suggests that in sand mining, there’s a model for how Greenland can economically adapt to climate change, while moving closer to the economic independence from Denmark that many Greenlanders support. However, the environmental consequences are uncertain and an environmental impact assessment has not yet been done. Impacts could include sucking sand off the substrate and increasing shipping traffic, as well as the introduction of non-native species via the ballast water of ships. As that information comes out, that may affect public support. “What I liked about this work was that it gives Greenland a voice in the discussion of climate change,” said first author Mette&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/greenlands-indigenous-population-favours-extracting-sand-from-melting-ice-sheet/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/greenlands-indigenous-population-favours-extracting-sand-from-melting-ice-sheet/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-260729</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>New tech aims to track carbon in every tree, boost carbon market integrity</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/new-tech-aims-to-track-carbon-in-every-tree-boost-carbon-market-integrity/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/new-tech-aims-to-track-carbon-in-every-tree-boost-carbon-market-integrity/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>19 Sep 2022 02:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Carolyn Cowan]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Carolyncowan]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2022/09/19022943/CTrees-map_Globalcarbon-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=260416</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Brazil, Denmark, France, and United States]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence, carbon, Carbon Credits, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Market, Carbon Sequestration, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Environment, Forest Carbon, Forests, Innovation, Mapping, Old Growth Forests, Plantations, Primary Forests, Rainforests, Reforestation, Satellite Imagery, Trees, and Wildtech]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Users of a new digital platform from nonprofit CTrees will be able to track in near-real-time the carbon stored and emitted in the world’s forests. The platform is borne out of two decades of research and development by a team of the world’s leading climate scientists and data engineers. It’s being touted as the first-ever [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Users of a new digital platform from nonprofit CTrees will be able to track in near-real-time the carbon stored and emitted in the world’s forests. The platform is borne out of two decades of research and development by a team of the world’s leading climate scientists and data engineers. It’s being touted as the first-ever global system for calculating the amount of carbon in every tree on the planet. “Forests are extremely important to mitigate climate change because they absorb a major part of the carbon in the atmosphere annually,” Sassan Saatchi, a senior scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who collaborated with colleagues in the U.S., Brazil, Denmark and France to develop the platform, told Mongabay. However, because trees are so efficient at stashing away carbon dioxide, they release vast quantities of carbon back into the atmosphere when forests are degraded, felled or burned. Recent studies have shown that many forests are nearing a tipping point that compromises their ability to store carbon, with parts of Southeast Asia and the Amazon already net carbon emitters due to multiple human-induced stressors. Pine trees in the Sierra Nevada, U.S. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay Due to this weighty influence on atmospheric carbon, forest conservation and restoration have become major components of climate change mitigation efforts through climate policy initiatives that rely on forests to offset carbon emissions. But up until now, the world has lacked a globally consistent and transparent means of quantifying and tracking forest carbon. The new CTrees platform&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/new-tech-aims-to-track-carbon-in-every-tree-boost-carbon-market-integrity/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/new-tech-aims-to-track-carbon-in-every-tree-boost-carbon-market-integrity/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-260416</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Greenland’s sustainable halibut fishery may threaten newfound corals, sponges</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/greenlands-sustainable-halibut-fishery-may-threaten-newfound-corals-sponges/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/greenlands-sustainable-halibut-fishery-may-threaten-newfound-corals-sponges/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>06 Sep 2022 14:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Amandas Ong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2022/09/06100628/soft-coral-garden-habitat-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=259997</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Arctic Ocean, Europe, and Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Coral Reefs, Deep Sea, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Food, Food Industry, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Research, Saltwater Fish, and Sustainability]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[In the Davis Strait between Greenland and Canada’s Baffin Island, where only the faintest rays of sunlight penetrate, swim strange-looking flat fish with both eyes on the right side of their heads. These are Greenland halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides), which industrial bottom trawlers have fished here for decades. To get the halibut in Greenlandic waters, the [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[In the Davis Strait between Greenland and Canada’s Baffin Island, where only the faintest rays of sunlight penetrate, swim strange-looking flat fish with both eyes on the right side of their heads. These are Greenland halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides), which industrial bottom trawlers have fished here for decades. To get the halibut in Greenlandic waters, the trawlers operate at least 3 nautical miles (5.6 kilometers) from the coastline and drag cone-shaped nets across the seabed. These nets hauled up approximately 12,400 metric tons of halibut in 2021 alone within Greenland’s waters, but they also overturn rocks and sediment in the process. (Fisheries closer to shore catch more halibut annually, but their method — a fishing line carrying up to 2,500 baited hooks, or longline — is much less destructive to the seabed.) The halibut, along with cod, mackerel, crab and prawn, is the mainspring of the Greenlandic fishing industry. Bottom trawling takes a toll: it crushes slow-growing deep-sea organisms, some of them millennia old, that are irreplaceable on human timescales. Now, the discovery of potential vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) on the Davis Strait seafloor has shown what, specifically, is at stake off Greenland’s coast. A 2020 paper identified a soft coral garden spanning 486 square kilometers (188 square miles) just outside one of the main halibut fishing grounds. And a paper published in September 2021 describes a field of sea pens, quill-like animals closely related to jellyfish; meadows of cup corals; and mixed assemblages of corals, sponges and sea pens, some&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/greenlands-sustainable-halibut-fishery-may-threaten-newfound-corals-sponges/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/greenlands-sustainable-halibut-fishery-may-threaten-newfound-corals-sponges/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-259997</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>With sea ice melting, glacial ice could be a lifeline for polar bears</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/with-sea-ice-melting-glacial-ice-could-be-a-lifeline-for-polar-bears/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/with-sea-ice-melting-glacial-ice-could-be-a-lifeline-for-polar-bears/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>16 Jun 2022 18:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2022/06/16181235/Ursus_maritimus_mother_with_cub-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=257354</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Arctic and Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Bears, Biodiversity, Charismatic Animals, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Glaciers, Ice Shelves, Mammals, Polar Bears, Predators, Tracking, and Wildlife]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[When Kristin Laidre began working on a long-term project to study polar bears in eastern Greenland, she didn’t expect to find a new subpopulation of the species — and she certainly didn’t expect to find the most genetically isolated polar bears on the planet. There are 19 recognized subpopulations of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) living throughout [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[When Kristin Laidre began working on a long-term project to study polar bears in eastern Greenland, she didn’t expect to find a new subpopulation of the species — and she certainly didn’t expect to find the most genetically isolated polar bears on the planet. There are 19 recognized subpopulations of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) living throughout the Arctic, including the subpopulation found living on the eastern coast of Greenland. But on the southeastern edge of the island, Laidre and her colleagues found a group of several hundred polar bears that were both behaviorally and genetically unique. While most polar bears depend on sea ice to hunt seals, the southeast Greenland polar bears had found ways to hunt using pieces of ice that had broken off from glaciers. “We were not expecting to identify a unique group like we found in the southeast,” Laidre, a polar bear expert at the University of Washington and Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, told Mongabay in an email. The dots on the left map show the locations where samples from Greenland polar bears were collected. The new Southeast Greenland population, shown as red dots, is located between 60 and 64 degrees north. The map at the right shows the 19 current polar bear subpopulations, with colored dots showing the location of other samples used in the analysis. Image courtesy of Laidre et al. / Science. A new report published in Science by Laidre and her colleagues suggests that the glacial ice, known as “marine-terminating glaciers,” could&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/with-sea-ice-melting-glacial-ice-could-be-a-lifeline-for-polar-bears/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/with-sea-ice-melting-glacial-ice-could-be-a-lifeline-for-polar-bears/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-257354</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>As Arctic warms, scientists wrestle with its climate ‘tipping point’</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/as-arctic-warms-scientists-wrestle-with-its-climate-tipping-point/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/as-arctic-warms-scientists-wrestle-with-its-climate-tipping-point/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>15 Jul 2021 16:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Conrad Fox]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2021/07/15071035/1-arctic-balloon_zieger-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=244842</guid>

											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Covering the Commons and Planetary Boundaries]]>
						</reporting-project>
					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Arctic, Arctic Ocean, and Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Carbon Emissions, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, data, Environment, Extreme Weather, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Ice Shelves, Impact Of Climate Change, Mitigation, Ocean Warming, Oceans, Remote Sensing, Research, Science, Sea Ice, Temperatures, Tipping points, and Weather]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Researchers are seeking to pinpoint climate change “tipping points,” but defining what that means exactly, when it will come, and what makes it happen, is unimaginably difficult when faced with the chaotic complexities of a vast Earth biome.]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[For Arctic scientists, the summer of 2007 changed everything. That’s when, for the first time in history, record warmth melted the Northwest Passage, nearly opening it to shipping; turned a portion of the East Siberian Sea the size of Mexico into open ocean; and shrank the polar ice cap to a size never before reached so early in the March-to-September melt season, as documented by satellite since 1979. Walt Meier, a senior researcher at the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Colorado, was following the satellite images. “You’re watching and it’s neck and neck. Is it going to make it? Is it not going to make it? It’s like, we’re going to break this [annual low sea ice extent] record in August if it keeps up like this.” By mid-September, when the melting had halted and the Arctic Ocean had begun its annual refreeze, the ice cap was 22% smaller than it had historically ever been. “We had set a record in 2002, 2005 before that,” says Meier. “Every couple of years we&#8217;ve kind of been dropping just a little bit lower than anywhere we had been before. But 2007 just smashed things. He adds: “There was this thought that we have reached a tipping point.” Tipping point. The expression has become a foundational concept in climate change science discussions and a mainstay of media headlines. Just last month, a leaked version of the newest upcoming science report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/as-arctic-warms-scientists-wrestle-with-its-climate-tipping-point/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/as-arctic-warms-scientists-wrestle-with-its-climate-tipping-point/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-244842</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>‘Red-carded’ Australian miner signals intention to play on in Greenland</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/red-carded-australian-miner-signals-intention-to-play-on-in-greenland/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/red-carded-australian-miner-signals-intention-to-play-on-in-greenland/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>12 Jul 2021 16:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jenny Denton]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Genevieve Belmaker]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2021/07/12152956/narsaq-houses-greenland-header-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=244668</guid>

											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Land rights and extractives]]>
						</reporting-project>
					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Denmark, Europe, European Union, and Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Conservation, Deforestation, Energy, Environment, Environmental Law, Mining, Mountains, Politics, and Pollution]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[An Australian mining company hoping to build a vast open-cut rare earths and uranium mine on a mountain in southern Greenland has told shareholders it will persist with the project despite the mine having been rejected by the people of the Arctic nation. Publicly listed Greenland Minerals Limited has been working to develop the Kvanefjeld [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[An Australian mining company hoping to build a vast open-cut rare earths and uranium mine on a mountain in southern Greenland has told shareholders it will persist with the project despite the mine having been rejected by the people of the Arctic nation. Publicly listed Greenland Minerals Limited has been working to develop the Kvanefjeld mine since it acquired an exploration license for the area in 2007, and it achieved a significant milestone in December last year when its environmental impact assessment for the project was finally accepted for public consultation. However, the advancement of the controversial mine triggered a breakdown of Greenland’s governing coalition and a snap election that served as a referendum on the issue. In a result the Danish-language newspaper Sermitsiaq referred to as a “decision to give Greenland Minerals the red card,” 37% of voters backed the pro-independence, green-leaning Inuit Ataqatigiit (Community for the People) party, which had adopted an explicit policy to stop the mine and reinstate a uranium mining ban in Greenland. “It is written in black and white in the coalition agreement between Inuit Ataqatigiit and [its partner] Naleraq that ‘the coalition is in agreement that uranium should not be mined in Greenland. The mineral project at Kuannersuit must be stopped,” Sermitsiaq wrote. Narsaq, a major settlement in Kujalleq, southern Greenland, lies in the vicinity of Kvanefjeld. Image by Algkalv via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). The Kvanefjeld/Kuannersuit project The $1.24 billion Kvanefjeld project (Kuannersuit in Greenlandic) is named for the mountain in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/red-carded-australian-miner-signals-intention-to-play-on-in-greenland/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/red-carded-australian-miner-signals-intention-to-play-on-in-greenland/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-244668</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Arctic biodiversity at risk as world overshoots climate planetary boundary</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/arctic-biodiversity-at-risk-as-world-overshoots-climate-planetary-boundary/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/arctic-biodiversity-at-risk-as-world-overshoots-climate-planetary-boundary/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>29 Apr 2021 20:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Gloria Dickie]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2021/04/29194152/banner-image-7-768x455.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=242147</guid>

											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Covering the Commons and Planetary Boundaries]]>
						</reporting-project>
					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Alaska, Arctic, Arctic Ocean, Greenland, Russia, siberia, Tropics, and United States]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Bears, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Biology, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environment, Extinction, Extreme Weather, Fish, Fisheries, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Habitat, Marine, Marine Animals, Microorganisms, Polar Bears, Research, Species Discovery, Weather, and Wildlife]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Polar phytoplankton, fish, seabirds and mammals are increasingly threatened by global warming, which is destabilizing Arctic ecosystems, even as southern species move northward — will the imbalanced biome collapse?]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Today, bowhead whales still transit the fringes of Arctic waters. Polar bears hunt blubbery ringed seals from rafts of ice. And ivory gulls ride gale force winds, plucking juvenile polar cod from the roiling sea. But for how much longer? Despite more than a century of scientific observation, the Central Arctic Ocean remains one of the least studied bodies of water in the world. Hostile weather, multiyear sea ice, total darkness part of the year, and remoteness hinder researchers endeavoring to better understand this region, its unique biodiversity, and dramatic shifts underway. What we do know is this: The Arctic is changing quickly as the poles warm. Sea ice cover, which has endured for millennia, is quickly disappearing, thinning and shrinking as the biome heats up at twice the rate of the rest of the world. In the absence of ice, southern species are moving north, sometimes making refugees and relics of long-term residents. We also know we can no longer afford for the Central Arctic Ocean to be a mystery. As the region heats up, the web of life that once tied together cold-loving species living in and near its enigmatic waters has begun to unravel, and may soon verge on collapse as the old guard fails to compete with, and gives way to, a new regime with largely unforeseeable consequences. Arctic sea ice breakup. The more the Arctic warms, the thinner the ice, and the more habitat changes. Image by Patrick Kelley / US Coast Guard. All of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/arctic-biodiversity-at-risk-as-world-overshoots-climate-planetary-boundary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/arctic-biodiversity-at-risk-as-world-overshoots-climate-planetary-boundary/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-242147</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>The nine boundaries humanity must respect to keep the planet habitable</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/the-nine-boundaries-humanity-must-respect-to-keep-the-planet-habitable/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/the-nine-boundaries-humanity-must-respect-to-keep-the-planet-habitable/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>30 Mar 2021 14:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Claire Asher]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2021/03/29193648/BANNER-IMAGE-Arctic-ice-768x455.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=241050</guid>

											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Covering the Commons and Planetary Boundaries]]>
						</reporting-project>
					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon, Antarctica, Arctic, Global, and Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Biodiversity, carbon, Carbon Emissions, Chemicals, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Earth Science, Ecosystems, Energy, Environment, Environmental Policy, Extinction, Farming, Food, Forests, Freshwater, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Globalization, Governance, Green, International Trade, Land Use Change, Mitigation, Nitrogen Cycle, Nutrient Pollution, Ocean Acidification, Ozone Layer, Politics, Pollution, Research, Sustainability, and Water]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[More than a decade after the Planetary Boundaries framework was first proposed by top scientists, we are no closer to changing our destructive trajectory — but 2021 gives us three opportunities to act.]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Advanced human societies emerged during an unprecedented period of stability on Earth. During the 12,000 years prior to the Industrial Revolution, our planet’s surface temperature varied by less than 1° Celsius (1.8° Fahrenheit) above or below the average for that entire period. As a result, life — both human and wild — thrived. But over the past two centuries, humanity has dramatically increased greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, pushing us outside this “safe” climate zone; outside the conditions for which civilization has been designed. Unfortunately for us, climate change represents just one of nine critical planetary boundaries, which the imprudent actions of our species risk dangerously destabilizing and overshooting. The nine planetary boundaries, counterclockwise from top: climate change, biosphere integrity (functional and genetic), land-system change, freshwater use, biogeochemical flows (nitrogen and phosphorus), ocean acidification, atmospheric aerosol pollution, stratospheric ozone depletion, and release of novel chemicals (including heavy metals, radioactive materials, plastics, and more). Image courtesy of J. Lokrantz/Azote based on Steffen et al. 2015 (via Stockholm Resilience Centre). A safe operating space for humanity In the mid-2000s, Johan Rockström, founding director of Sweden’s Stockholm Resilience Centre, gathered an international, interdisciplinary team of scientists to unite behind a single goal: define the boundaries for a “safe operating space for humanity” on Earth. They asked themselves: what are the safe operating limits of our planet, and what changes can we force on it before we trigger rapid, catastrophic environmental harm? In 2009, the center published the Planetary Boundaries Framework, which outlined&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/the-nine-boundaries-humanity-must-respect-to-keep-the-planet-habitable/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/the-nine-boundaries-humanity-must-respect-to-keep-the-planet-habitable/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-241050</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>As Arctic sea ice hits annual maximum, concern grows over polar ice loss: Studies</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/as-arctic-sea-ice-hits-annual-maximum-concern-grows-over-polar-ice-loss-studies/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/as-arctic-sea-ice-hits-annual-maximum-concern-grows-over-polar-ice-loss-studies/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>16 Mar 2021 19:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Gloria Dickie]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2021/03/16192511/BANNER-image-3-Chukchi_Sea_sea_ice_7-2015_Jannelle_Trowbridge-768x449.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=240628</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Antarctica, Arctic, Arctic Ocean, and Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Carbon Emissions, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Controversial, data, Environment, Extreme Weather, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Impact Of Climate Change, Oceans, Remote Sensing, Research, Sea Ice, Temperatures, and Weather]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[New research finds that ice in both polar regions, and especially sea ice, is disappearing at a quickening rate, while in the Arctic the last stronghold of multiyear ice is under assault from warming.]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[On March 12,* sea ice floating atop the Arctic Ocean reached its greatest extent for the year, covering 14.750 million square kilometers (5.70 million square miles). With the exception of last winter, when sea ice reached just 15.047 million square kilometers (5.8 million square miles), sea ice extent in March 2021 was significantly above recent warm years which have put winter sea ice in jeopardy. This year ranks as the 7th lowest maximum extent since the satellite record began in 1978. Last year was the hottest on record, and, accordingly, sea ice saw its second lowest extent at the September minimum. This winter might indicate a modest recovery — but there’s a caveat: winter maximums seem to have little correlation to summer minimums. And, moreover, the ice in the Arctic is thin. “Volume keeps going down,” says Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center. “We’re still below average [extent] in the Bering Sea and around Svalbard [on the Arctic’s Atlantic Ocean side]. It’s pretty thin ice along the Labrador coast, too.” According to NSIDC data, September Arctic sea ice extent is decreasing at an average rate of 13.1% per decade. The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy slices through thin Arctic sea ice. Image courtesy US Coast Guard. Flying blind in February Perhaps the bigger story this winter is a sudden blackout of U.S. ice data reporting and processing at the end of February, with two days’ worth of data unrecoverable. Every day, the NSIDC uploads sea&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/as-arctic-sea-ice-hits-annual-maximum-concern-grows-over-polar-ice-loss-studies/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/as-arctic-sea-ice-hits-annual-maximum-concern-grows-over-polar-ice-loss-studies/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-240628</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>We&#8217;re approaching critical climate tipping points: Q&#038;A with Tim Lenton</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/were-approaching-critical-climate-tipping-points-qa-with-tim-lenton/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/were-approaching-critical-climate-tipping-points-qa-with-tim-lenton/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>06 Jan 2021 00:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2021/01/05205856/penguins_in_antarctica_04-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=238473</guid>

											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Nature conservation Influencers and Planetary Boundaries]]>
						</reporting-project>
					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon, Antarctica, Global, and Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Business, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Coral Reefs, Drought, Ecology, Energy, Environment, Fires, Forests, Glaciers, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Impact Of Climate Change, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Oceans, Renewable Energy, Sea Ice, Tipping points, transforming conservation, and Tropical Forests]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Over the past twenty years the concept of &#8220;tipping points&#8221; has become more familiar to the public. Tipping points are critical thresholds at which small changes can lead to dramatic shifts in the state of the entire system. From a climate standpoint, the melting of Arctic sea ice is a simple example. As sea ice [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Over the past twenty years the concept of &#8220;tipping points&#8221; has become more familiar to the public. Tipping points are critical thresholds at which small changes can lead to dramatic shifts in the state of the entire system. From a climate standpoint, the melting of Arctic sea ice is a simple example. As sea ice melts, less sunlight is reflected into space and more heat is absorbed by the ocean, further hindering the formation of sea ice and thereby leading to more warming. The positive feedback loop is leading toward ice-free summers in the Arctic, which will have dramatic implications for the Arctic ecosystem and knock-on effects for ocean circulation and weather patterns. The effects are already being observed, with Arctic sea ice extent trending sharply downward since the 1970s. Glaciers and icebergs in Antarctica. Photo credit: Mongabay Awareness of climate tipping points has grown in policy circles in recent years in no small part thanks to the work of climate scientist Tim Lenton, who serves as the director of the Global Systems Institute at Britain&#8217;s University of Exeter. In 2008 Lenton was the lead author of an influential Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) paper that identified nine tipping points and ranked them by their near-term likelihood of occurring. These included: Arctic Sea-Ice; the Greenland Ice Sheet; the West Antarctic Ice Sheet; the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation; the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO); the Indian Summer Monsoon; the Sahara/Sahel and West African Monsoon; the Amazon Rainforest; and the Boreal&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/were-approaching-critical-climate-tipping-points-qa-with-tim-lenton/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/were-approaching-critical-climate-tipping-points-qa-with-tim-lenton/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-238473</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>EU renewable energy policy subsidizes surge in logging of Estonia&#8217;s protected areas (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/eu-renewable-energy-policy-subsidizes-surge-in-logging-of-estonias-protected-areas-commentary/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/eu-renewable-energy-policy-subsidizes-surge-in-logging-of-estonias-protected-areas-commentary/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>07 Dec 2020 14:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Siim Kuresoo]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2020/12/07143644/Tarvasjo%CC%83gi-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=237632</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Denmark, Europe, European Union, and Latvia]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Bioenergy, boreal forests, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Commentary, Conservation, Energy, Environment, Environmental Policy, Forest Carbon, Forests, Global Warming, Politics, Renewable Energy, and Temperate Forests]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[The survival of Europe’s most valuable – and threatened – wildlife and habitats depends on Natura 2000. Natura 2000 sites are meant to be environmental havens, shielded from the relentless spread of buildings, logging, roads and agriculture across Europe. Spanning almost 18% of the European Union’s land mass, they are the largest network of protected [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[The survival of Europe’s most valuable – and threatened – wildlife and habitats depends on Natura 2000. Natura 2000 sites are meant to be environmental havens, shielded from the relentless spread of buildings, logging, roads and agriculture across Europe. Spanning almost 18% of the European Union’s land mass, they are the largest network of protected areas in the world, and a cornerstone of the EU’s efforts to protect nature and biodiversity. Yet in Estonia, in the last 10 years the government has issued logging permits for 82,000 hectares of forest – the equivalent to 115,000 football fields – which have been designated protected habitats under Natura 2000. Responsibility for this destruction, however, doesn’t solely lie in Estonia. Perversely, the EU itself is the architect of another policy which is helping to destroy the very nature which should be protected under Natura 2000. See related: Are forests the new coal? Global alarm sounds as biomass burning surges Subsidies fuel destruction This policy is the Renewable Energy Directive, which allows Member States to subsidize burning woody biomass under the banner of ‘green energy.’ In Estonia these subsidies are helping fuel a dramatic surge in logging: in 2016-18 the logging intensity was 85% higher than in 2004-15, a study published in the journal Nature shows. In the past decade or so, logging volumes in Estonia have almost tripled, and because of this, Estonia’s habitats are expected to become a net source of carbon by 2034. At least half of the wood logged is&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/eu-renewable-energy-policy-subsidizes-surge-in-logging-of-estonias-protected-areas-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/eu-renewable-energy-policy-subsidizes-surge-in-logging-of-estonias-protected-areas-commentary/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-237632</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>The glaciers of the Greenland Ice Sheet are running away</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/the-glaciers-of-the-greenland-ice-sheet-are-running-away/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/the-glaciers-of-the-greenland-ice-sheet-are-running-away/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>02 Dec 2020 12:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Nikk Ogasa]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2020/11/30132807/Ogasa_Photo_3_header-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=237272</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Arctic and Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Carbon Emissions, Environment, Glaciers, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Impact Of Climate Change, and Sea Levels]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing mass, and there may be no way to stop it, scientists have concluded. Even if large amounts of snowfall return to the ice sheet, it will continue to shrink, according to new research published in Communications Earth and Environment. The problem appears to lie with Greenland’s glaciers, which deliver [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing mass, and there may be no way to stop it, scientists have concluded. Even if large amounts of snowfall return to the ice sheet, it will continue to shrink, according to new research published in Communications Earth and Environment. The problem appears to lie with Greenland’s glaciers, which deliver ice from inland areas to the sea. “They’re conveyor belts of ice,” said glaciologist Michalea King of The Ohio State University, first author of the study. “If you look at an aerial image of a glacier, it looks like a long finger of ice that extends off of an ice sheet.” These glaciers act like dams that control how much ice flows into the ocean, said Michael Wood, a postdoctoral researcher at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who was not involved in the study. “What’s happened is that a lot of those dams have burst,” Wood told Mongabay. The new study, he said, shows this process “is fully or mostly responsible for the extra ice flooding into the ocean.” Greenland’s glaciers are discharging more ice than snowfall can make up for. Image credit: Michalea King. As Greenland&#8217;s thick shield of ice melts, it is the single largest contributor to global sea level rise. Between 1992 and 2018 it shed about 3.9 trillion metric tons, raising sea level about 11 millimeters (0.4 inches), a recent study in Nature reported. If the entire ice sheet melted, sea level would soar more than 7 meters (23&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/the-glaciers-of-the-greenland-ice-sheet-are-running-away/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/the-glaciers-of-the-greenland-ice-sheet-are-running-away/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-237272</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Ice breakers in the Arctic: Let&#8217;s talk Inuit safety (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/ice-breakers-in-the-arctic-lets-talk-inuit-safety-commentary/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/ice-breakers-in-the-arctic-lets-talk-inuit-safety-commentary/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>03 Nov 2020 14:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Beverly MaksagakMartin Robards]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2020/11/02235549/caribou_AG7A0985-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=236473</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Alaska, Arctic, and Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Commentary, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, and Sea Ice]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[The solitude of the north is changing. George Angohiatok noticed this quite graphically a decade ago when, after returning to Iqaluktuuttiaq (or Cambridge Bay, as it was renamed by settlers), he observed an ice breaker moving through the same frozen waterways he had travelled by snow machine the day before. If the vessel had smashed that open [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[The solitude of the north is changing. George Angohiatok noticed this quite graphically a decade ago when, after returning to Iqaluktuuttiaq (or Cambridge Bay, as it was renamed by settlers), he observed an ice breaker moving through the same frozen waterways he had travelled by snow machine the day before. If the vessel had smashed that open lead through the frozen veneer of ice a day earlier, he would have been cut off for at least a few weeks until the ice refroze. George wonders whether, even with his headlights, he would have detected the steam that signals the transition from ice to water in winter through his goggles. The growing presence of ice breakers worries George. His Inuit ancestors moved east across the Arctic coast of North America thousands of years ago. Since that time, the waterways have been their highways, both in summer and winter. Traveling between camps and villages, the Inuit have followed the wildlife at the heart of their food security. The caribou herds of the far northern islands—the Dolphin and Union herd and the Peary herds—also stride out onto the sea ice during their migrations between summer and wintering areas. The herds contribute heavily to the Inuit’s essential needs—providing both a source of “country food” and clothing with fur that is warm beyond compare. In the past elders have used the leg bones for carving and to build shelters. The Dolphin and Union caribou herd. Photo © Xavier Fernandez Aguilar. Use of the sea and ice by&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/ice-breakers-in-the-arctic-lets-talk-inuit-safety-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/ice-breakers-in-the-arctic-lets-talk-inuit-safety-commentary/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-236473</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Brave New Arctic: Sea ice has yet to form off of Siberia, worrying scientists</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/brave-new-arctic-sea-ice-has-yet-to-form-off-of-siberia-worrying-scientists/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/brave-new-arctic-sea-ice-has-yet-to-form-off-of-siberia-worrying-scientists/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>26 Oct 2020 15:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2020/10/26143109/1-Banner-Image-1-polar-bear-looking-to-sea-768x447.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=236182</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Arctic, Arctic Ocean, and Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Carbon Emissions, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Controversial, data, Environment, Extinction, Extreme Weather, Fires, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Impact Of Climate Change, Oceans, Remote Sensing, Research, Sea Ice, Temperatures, Weather, and Wildlife]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[The Arctic is setting records for low sea ice extent for this time of year, with the 2020 refreeze now 500,000+ square kilometers behind a record set in 2019 — a sign the region may be entering a new climate regime.]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Ice bergs float in an open Arctic Ocean. Image by Polar Cruises licensed under CC BY 2.0. At this time of year, in Russia’s far north Laptev Sea, the sun hovers near the horizon during the day, generating little warmth, as the region heads towards months of polar night. By late September or early October, the sea’s shallow waters should be a vast, frozen expanse. But not this year. For the first time since records have been kept, open water still laps this coastline in late October though snow is already falling there. “In one sense, it’s shocking, but on the other hand, it’s not surprising,” said Walt Meier, a research scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder’s National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). Over the past 40 years, unprecedented climate change-driven events such as this have become the new normal in the Arctic — which is heating up far faster than the rest of the planet. While weather patterns at the top of the world vary, the overall changes are dramatic and occurring so rapidly that the region may be entering a “new Arctic” climate regime, says Laura Landrum, an oceanographer with Colorado’s National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The Arctic is transitioning from a mostly frozen state into an entirely new climate — and impacting the entire planet, she said. Meier calls the Arctic the “bellweather of climate change” because it’s a place where a small bump in temperature has real impact: a change from -.5°C to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/brave-new-arctic-sea-ice-has-yet-to-form-off-of-siberia-worrying-scientists/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/brave-new-arctic-sea-ice-has-yet-to-form-off-of-siberia-worrying-scientists/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-236182</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Arctic Sea ice melts to second-place finish at annual minimum</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/arctic-sea-ice-melts-to-second-place-finish-at-annual-minimum/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/arctic-sea-ice-melts-to-second-place-finish-at-annual-minimum/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>21 Sep 2020 13:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Gloria Dickie]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2020/09/21131213/2-banner-image-ar-768x450.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=235026</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Arctic, Arctic Ocean, and Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Carbon Emissions, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Controversial, data, Environment, Extreme Weather, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Impact Of Climate Change, Oceans, Remote Sensing, Research, Sea Ice, Temperatures, and Weather]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[2020 didn’t eclipse all-time record-holder 2012, but it came pretty close; also, the Arctic’s growing heat is likely intensifying Asia’s extreme weather, while waters just beneath the ice are getting increasingly warm.]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[This summer, the Arctic saw a large number of sunny days, along with high heat. While ice reflects sunlight, large dark areas of open ocean absorb a great deal of solar energy, triggering more ice melt and delaying the refreeze after the September ice minimum. Photo credit: The Bone Collector II on VisualHunt / CC BY-NC-ND. After a spring and summer that saw record-breaking heat waves above the Arctic Circle — with 100+ degree Fahrenheit temperatures — the sea ice floating atop the Arctic Ocean reached its annual minimum extent last Wednesday, with 3.74 million square kilometers (1.44 million square miles) of sea ice remaining, coming in a close second to 2012. In the last decade, Arctic sea ice cover has declined drastically. The record low of 3.41 million square kilometers (1.32 million square miles) reached in 2012 was largely due to an intense late-season cyclone which decimated the residual ice. What worries scientists is that 2020’s sea ice vanishing act followed a similar trajectory, even in the absence of such an extreme weather event. In no other years on record besides 2012 and 2020 has sea ice extent dropped below 4 million square kilometers (1.54 million square miles). To many experts, this indicates the Arctic has entered a new ecological state. “Last year, we were kind of tied with 2007 for the second lowest on record,” says Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center. “Well, this year we’ve blown way past 2007.” Though the Arctic entered&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/arctic-sea-ice-melts-to-second-place-finish-at-annual-minimum/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/arctic-sea-ice-melts-to-second-place-finish-at-annual-minimum/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-235026</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Climate conundrum: Could COVID-19 be linked to early Arctic ice melt?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/climate-conundrum-could-covid-19-be-linked-to-early-arctic-ice-melt/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/climate-conundrum-could-covid-19-be-linked-to-early-arctic-ice-melt/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>08 Jun 2020 10:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Gloria Dickie]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2020/06/04165004/BANNER-IMAGE-1210-768x452.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=231040</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Arctic, Arctic Ocean, and Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Air Pollution, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Coronavirus, COVID-19, data, Earth Science, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Impact Of Climate Change, Monitoring, Oceans, Pandemics, Pollution, Remote Sensing, Research, Satellite Imagery, Science, Sea Ice, and Zoonotic Diseases]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[April and May saw record intense Arctic heat. Now some scientists are asking whether an absence of industrial sulfate aerosol pollutants, which reflect solar energy, could be the cause.]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[As the pandemic deepened in mid-May, masked participants boarded the German research vessels Maria S. Merian and Sonne, departing Bremerhaven and headed to the Arctic for the MOSAIC expedition (the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate School). Image by Esther Horvath. In mid-May, a pocket of scorching hot air flowed north from Siberia and fanned out across the Arctic Ocean reaching as far as Greenland and triggering an unprecedented heatwave. In Khatanga, a Russian village above the Arctic Circle which normally remains below freezing in the spring, the mercury hit 25 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit), smashing the previous record by 13 degrees C (23 degrees F). According to temperature records which go back to 1958, no other year has been hotter in the Arctic for this same time period. This weather anomaly has since ignited significant wildfires in Russia and contributed to the rapid melt-out of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean — possibly jumpstarting this year’s melt season. Indeed, sea ice is currently at its fourth lowest for this time of year since record-keeping began in the 1970s. “Overall, this winter wasn’t particularly warm, but now that’s flipped around in the last month and we’re really seeing the effects,” says Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). “Big holes are opening up along the Siberian coast where it’s been the warmest.” This Central Arctic heatwave may not be a one-off event only occurring in spring 2020, researchers suggest. Rather, if&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/climate-conundrum-could-covid-19-be-linked-to-early-arctic-ice-melt/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/climate-conundrum-could-covid-19-be-linked-to-early-arctic-ice-melt/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-231040</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>The Arctic and climate change (1979 &#8211; 2019): What the ice record tells us</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/09/the-arctic-and-climate-change-1979-2019-what-the-ice-record-tells-us/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/09/the-arctic-and-climate-change-1979-2019-what-the-ice-record-tells-us/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>18 Sep 2019 08:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Gloria Dickie]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2019/09/16161332/FEATURED-1-copy-768x451.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=222531</guid>

											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Covering Climate Now]]>
						</reporting-project>
					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Arctic, Arctic Ocean, and Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, data, Earth Science, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Impact Of Climate Change, Monitoring, Oceans, Remote Sensing, Research, Satellite Imagery, Science, and Sea Ice]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[As 2019 melt season nears end, 40 years of satellite data reveal a rapidly warming polar region, with no end in sight, plus multiple impacts for a changing planet. This story has been updated.]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Arctic sea ice in eastern Greenland. What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic. Scientists theorize that large-scale ice loss up north may be altering, and stalling, the northern jet stream, which can result in drought or storms hovering over one locale for long time periods. Image by mariusz kluzniak, Flickr. Arctic melt season watchers had a wild ride this year, with sea ice extent plummeting, and tracking with all previous record lows for time-of-year from March through mid-August, as 2019 appeared on course to challenge 2012 — the lowest minimum in the 1979-2019 forty-year satellite record. Then, once again proving the Arctic’s unpredictability, 2019’s melt slowed dramatically in late August and early September, only to take off again in a race to the bottom. As recently as Monday, extent appeared to be heading toward a fourth place finish behind 2016 and 2007, but overnight 2019 surpassed both, placing second only to 2012. And final results still aren’t in. &#8220;This year what we’re seeing is a good example of the natural variability of the system,” says Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). In the spring, it looked like we were heading for a new record low, but then, in August, the loss rate suddenly slowed. 2019 now ranks among the lowest ice minimums in the 40-year satellite record. More importantly, during the four-decade time frame, the world has witnessed monumental declines in ice extent and volume in the Arctic. “In all months,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/09/the-arctic-and-climate-change-1979-2019-what-the-ice-record-tells-us/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/09/the-arctic-and-climate-change-1979-2019-what-the-ice-record-tells-us/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-222531</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>2019 in line for second lowest Arctic sea ice extent record</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/08/2019-in-line-for-second-lowest-arctic-sea-ice-extent-record/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/08/2019-in-line-for-second-lowest-arctic-sea-ice-extent-record/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>19 Aug 2019 12:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Gloria Dickie]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2019/08/19122846/Banner-image-Aug-Arctic-768x445.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=221479</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Arctic, Arctic Ocean, and Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, data, Earth Science, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Impact Of Climate Change, Monitoring, Oceans, Remote Sensing, Research, Satellite Imagery, Science, and Sea Ice]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[High heat and conditioning throughout this year’s melt season put a hurting on Arctic sea ice, but it may still take big storms or more heat to break 2012 extent record. ]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Heat waves assaulted the Arctic sea ice this year, especially on the Alaska and Asian side, causing rapid melt. Photo credit: WasifMalik on VisualHunt / CC BY. Arctic sea ice volume plunged to new lows last month with a July average of just 8,800 cubic kilometers (2,111 cubic miles) of ice remaining atop the Arctic Ocean. According to Arctic experts, that’s the lowest July monthly average on record, though still within the margin of error of second place July 2017. Overall, July 2019’s monthly ice volume was roughly half that of the mean value for 1979 to 2018. For anyone watching the Arctic this year, this dire data comes as little surprise. Things have been hot in the Far North, to say the least, with record heat waves, dramatic melt-outs and unprecedented wildfires. At the start of August, UN press secretary António Guterres announced that July 2019 was the hottest month ever recorded, with average global temperatures at least 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.16 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the pre-industrial average, when record keeping began. During July, fires raged across millions of acres in the Arctic; the Greenland Ice Sheet lost billions of tons of ice; Alaska shattered heat records; and Europe endured a staggering heat wave. Meanwhile, sea ice extent across the Arctic was the lowest it had been for July and the start of August since the beginning of the satellite record in 1979. But by mid-August, the polar region had recovered slightly, with 2019 ice extent exceeding that&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/08/2019-in-line-for-second-lowest-arctic-sea-ice-extent-record/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/08/2019-in-line-for-second-lowest-arctic-sea-ice-extent-record/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-221479</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>More than 50 lakes lie hidden beneath Greenland ice sheet, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/more-than-50-lakes-lie-hidden-beneath-greenland-ice-sheet-study-finds/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/more-than-50-lakes-lie-hidden-beneath-greenland-ice-sheet-study-finds/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>28 Jun 2019 11:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2019/06/28090715/meltwater-greenland-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=219918</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[data, Environment, Glaciers, Lakes, Remote Sensing, Research, Sea Ice, Technology, and Water]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Until recently, researchers knew of four lakes lying hidden underneath the Greenland ice sheet. Now, scientists say they’ve identified 56 more, bringing the total to 60 known subglacial lakes beneath the thick ice mass. While some of these lakes are just 200 meters (650 feet) long, some span nearly 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) in length, [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Until recently, researchers knew of four lakes lying hidden underneath the Greenland ice sheet. Now, scientists say they’ve identified 56 more, bringing the total to 60 known subglacial lakes beneath the thick ice mass. While some of these lakes are just 200 meters (650 feet) long, some span nearly 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) in length, a new study has found. Jade Bowling, lead author of the study and a graduate student at Lancaster University, U.K., and her colleagues analyzed more than 574,000 kilometers (357,000 miles) of radio echo sounding data collected by NASA’s IceBridge program and identified 54 subglacial lakes. To get radio echo sounding data, specially equipped aircraft send radio waves that penetrate thick ice. The signals that come back can be used to interpret a glacier’s internal structure, including pinpointing locations where there might be liquid water. The researchers identified an additional two lakes using another set of elevation model data set called ArcticDEM. “This study has for the first time allowed us to start to build up a picture of where lakes form under the Greenland Ice Sheet,” Bowling said in a statement. “This is important for determining their influence on the wider subglacial hydrological system and ice-flow dynamics, and improving our understanding of the ice sheet’s basal thermal state.” Unlike the lakes under the Greenland ice sheet, subglacial lakes under the Antarctic ice sheet are relatively better known. Researchers have detected more than 400 such lakes to date, the largest being Lake Vostok, which stretches for&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/more-than-50-lakes-lie-hidden-beneath-greenland-ice-sheet-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/more-than-50-lakes-lie-hidden-beneath-greenland-ice-sheet-study-finds/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-219918</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Carbon to burn: UK net-zero emissions pledge undermined by biomass energy</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/carbon-to-burn-uk-net-zero-emissions-pledge-undermined-by-biomass-energy/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/carbon-to-burn-uk-net-zero-emissions-pledge-undermined-by-biomass-energy/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>19 Jun 2019 18:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Justin Catanoso]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2019/06/19182359/FEATURED-2-768x451.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=219649</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Belgium, Denmark, European Union, Global, United Kingdom, and United States]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Adaptation To Climate Change, Alternative Energy, Bioenergy, carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Sequestration, Clean Energy, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Controversial, Emission Reduction, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Ethics, Forest Carbon, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Globalization, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Impact Of Climate Change, International Trade, Law, Mitigation, Monitoring, Politics, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Research, Solar Power, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, and Trade]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[The UK and EU say  they plan to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, even as both pursue plans to burn massive amounts of carbon-producing wood pellets.]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[The Drax power stations in the United Kingdom, one of the largest users of woody biomass for energy production. The Drax biomass dome, seen here, once burned coal but now burns wood pellets and chips, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. Photo credit: DECCgovuk on VisualHunt / CC BY-ND. Last week, the United Kingdom announced plans to pass a national law setting a country-wide target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, to be achieved by 2050. The pronouncement came in response to a directive by the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, that all 28 European Union nations set binding 2050 net-zero emissions reduction goals. Those nations are meeting in the next two days to discuss the issue. Given that the national carbon reductions set by the Paris Agreement are voluntary, the fact that UK and EU climate-mitigation strategies may soon carry the weight of law is being cheered by some climate-action advocates. “As the first major industrialized country to legislate for a target of net-zero emissions by 2050, the UK is demonstrating the leadership the world so desperately needs,” Baroness Bryony Worthington, executive director of the Environmental Defense Fund Europe said in a statement. “Other countries can and must take steps to up their ambitions, too.” When the biomass industry hypes wood pellets, people often imagine the product as being consumed in small household wood burning pellet stoves. The reality is quite different and large-scale, with industrial burning of chips and pellets to make electricity, as seen here at the Drax&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/carbon-to-burn-uk-net-zero-emissions-pledge-undermined-by-biomass-energy/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/carbon-to-burn-uk-net-zero-emissions-pledge-undermined-by-biomass-energy/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-219649</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Tiny tracking tags help decode how echolocating bats navigate</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/tiny-tracking-tags-help-decode-how-echolocating-bats-navigate/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/tiny-tracking-tags-help-decode-how-echolocating-bats-navigate/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>30 May 2019 13:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Lakshmi Supriya]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2019/05/30111913/Big-brown-bat_Angell-Williams-Flickr-CC-2.0_featured-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=219050</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Denmark and Global]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Animal Behavior, Animals, Bats, Bioacoustics, data, Mammals, Research, Technology, Tracking, and Wildtech]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[While we fumble and crash without any light, bats zipping away in the dark, effortlessly skirting obstacles and pouncing on prey, seem magical. To better understand this ability of bats to “see” in the dark, researchers fixed tags that can simultaneously measure both bats’ movements and all the sounds they send and hear, creating a [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[While we fumble and crash without any light, bats zipping away in the dark, effortlessly skirting obstacles and pouncing on prey, seem magical. To better understand this ability of bats to “see” in the dark, researchers fixed tags that can simultaneously measure both bats’ movements and all the sounds they send and hear, creating a map of the sensory inputs in a bat’s environment and how it reacts to them. Such information can help us better understand how bats navigate and feed in the wild, something previously difficult to study. More than half of all bat species use sound to “see”, emitting sounds and listening to the echoes to go about their daily lives. Their brains process the returning echoes and help them determine how far away objects are, how big they are, if they are moving, and how fast and in which direction the objects are moving. This echolocating ability of bats has long been studied, but questions remain, such as how can bats pick out the echoes they are interested in, for example a juicy meal or a predator swooping down, versus all the other echoes they perceive. A big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) in flight in Oregon, US, looks either hungry or sinister but possibly is just busy echolocating, a process by which bats emit high-frequency calls and use information about the return echo to navigate and detect objects around them at night. Image by Angell Williams, CC  2.0. One way to measure events of interest is&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/tiny-tracking-tags-help-decode-how-echolocating-bats-navigate/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/tiny-tracking-tags-help-decode-how-echolocating-bats-navigate/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-219050</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>As Arctic neared 2019 winter max, Bering Sea was virtually ice-free</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/as-arctic-neared-2019-winter-max-bering-sea-was-virtually-ice-free/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/as-arctic-neared-2019-winter-max-bering-sea-was-virtually-ice-free/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>18 Mar 2019 11:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Gloria Dickie]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2019/03/18104955/FEATURED-ice-768x454.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=216621</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Arctic, Arctic Ocean, and Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, data, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Impact Of Climate Change, Monitoring, Oceans, Remote Sensing, Research, and Sea Ice]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Though sea ice extent was up across much of the Arctic at winter maximum, the Bering Sea lost an ice area the size of Montana, and Greenland has been receiving winter rains.]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Scientists scout for a location to collect data on sea ice in the Chukchi Sea. Continued decline of Arctic ice, due to human-caused climate change, is hypothesized to be a factor in the destabilization of Earth’s weather patterns. Photo by Kathryn Hansen / NASA, After four years in a row of record low winter sea ice extent, the Arctic received a bit of a reprieve this year. This winter&#8217;s maximum — the day when sea ice extent is greatest — was likely reached on March 13, when Arctic sea ice covered 14.777 million square kilometers (5.7 million square miles). Though the National Snow and Ice Data Center has not yet officially declared the maximum, 2019 Arctic sea ice extent still remains among the top ten lowest on record for March, and well below the 1981-2010 average maximum extent of 15.64 million square kilometers (6.03 million square miles). Cold weather over much of the Arctic this winter preserved whatever ice had managed to form. The exception was in the Bering Sea. Spanning 2 million square kilometers (772,000 square miles) between Alaska and Russia, the Bering Sea has had a rough go of it the past two years. Last winter, sea ice extent in the region plummeted. An unusually warm Autumn followed. By November 2018, when ice should have begun to reform, the Bering Sea experienced the lowest ice extent ever documented in the satellite record for that time of year. Then the weather shifted. “For December and the first half of January, sea ice&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/as-arctic-neared-2019-winter-max-bering-sea-was-virtually-ice-free/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/as-arctic-neared-2019-winter-max-bering-sea-was-virtually-ice-free/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-216621</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Agreement bans commercial fishing across much of the Arctic, for now</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/agreement-bans-commercial-fishing-across-much-of-the-arctic-for-now/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/agreement-bans-commercial-fishing-across-much-of-the-arctic-for-now/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>04 Oct 2018 10:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2018/10/04064758/1024px-Arctic_ice-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=210877</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Arctic, Arctic Ocean, and Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Conservation, Environment, Fisheries, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Marine, Oceans, and Sea Ice]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[With the Arctic’s melting ice cover leaving the ocean ice-free for longer periods of time, new shipping routes are opening up, paving the way for future commercial activities. But under a new agreement, commercial fishing will be banned across a large chunk of the Central Arctic Ocean as a precautionary measure for at least 16 [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[With the Arctic’s melting ice cover leaving the ocean ice-free for longer periods of time, new shipping routes are opening up, paving the way for future commercial activities. But under a new agreement, commercial fishing will be banned across a large chunk of the Central Arctic Ocean as a precautionary measure for at least 16 years from when it comes into force. After several years of negotiations, nine jurisdictions — Canada, Norway, Russia, the United States, China, Iceland, Japan, South Korea, Denmark (including Greenland and the Faroe Islands) and the European Union — signed the legally binding “Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean” in Ilulissat, Greenland, on Oct. 3. While no fishing takes place in the Central Arctic Ocean at the moment, rising temperatures and melting ice could make this a possibility soon. The agreement bans commercial fishing in the high seas portion of the Central Arctic Ocean, covering 2.8 million square kilometers (1.1 square miles), or an area about the size of the Mediterranean Sea, until there’s a better scientific understanding of the fish stock in the region. As part of the agreement, the signatory parties have agreed to a 16-year moratorium and committed to a joint scientific research and monitoring program to gain a better understanding of the changing Arctic ecosystem and determine the region’s potential for commercial, sustainable fisheries in the future. The moratorium will initially cover 16 years, but this can be extended in five-year increments, if the parties agree to do so. “During&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/agreement-bans-commercial-fishing-across-much-of-the-arctic-for-now/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/agreement-bans-commercial-fishing-across-much-of-the-arctic-for-now/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-210877</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>The Arctic’s oldest, thickest ice is breaking up</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/the-arctics-oldest-thickest-ice-is-breaking-up/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/the-arctics-oldest-thickest-ice-is-breaking-up/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>22 Aug 2018 13:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Gloria Dickie]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2018/08/22125408/33789885604_6c463cb696_k_1200px-cropped-768x388.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=209584</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Arctic and Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, data, Environment, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Impact Of Climate Change, Monitoring, Oceans, Remote Sensing, Research, and Sea Ice]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[At the start of August, for the second time this year, a corridor of open water developed along the north shore of Greenland, this one more than 100 kilometers (over 62 miles) wide. The ice very nearly melted out enough to make the island country circum-navigable, as some sea ice pundits put it, for the [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[At the start of August, for the second time this year, a corridor of open water developed along the north shore of Greenland, this one more than 100 kilometers (over 62 miles) wide. The ice very nearly melted out enough to make the island country circum-navigable, as some sea ice pundits put it, for the first time in human history. Now, scientists say, the oldest and thickest ice in the Arctic is beginning to break up. We’re unlikely to see a new record sea ice extent minimum in the Arctic Ocean come September 2018, despite entering the summer melt season with ice coverage lower than that at the same time during the record-low year of 2012. Sea ice extent in the Arctic is currently clocking in at 5.396 million square kilometers (about 2.1 million square miles). That’s the good news. (The 2012 record was set at 3.387 million square kilometers on September 17.) But the melt-out above Greenland has alarming implications for the future. If even the thickest, oldest ice is now susceptible to increased warming and changes in weather, what hope is there for the rest of the Arctic? The waters around Cape Morris Jesup on Greenland’s north coast are typically so frozen solid that they’re known as the “last ice area.” It was assumed this region would be the final refuge for sea ice under global warming. Yet the open water area extended all the way from Fram Strait to the Lincoln Sea this summer. Though this year’s&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/the-arctics-oldest-thickest-ice-is-breaking-up/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/08/the-arctics-oldest-thickest-ice-is-breaking-up/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-209584</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Audio: Bowhead whales in the Arctic sing hundreds of complex songs</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/04/audio-bowhead-whales-in-the-arctic-sing-hundreds-of-complex-songs/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/04/audio-bowhead-whales-in-the-arctic-sing-hundreds-of-complex-songs/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>06 Apr 2018 04:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2018/04/06023600/Bowhead-1_Kate_Stafford_edit_16272151841-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=205505</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Arctic, Arctic Ocean, and Greenland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Mammals, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Marine Mammals, Research, Whales, and Wildlife]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[Under the Arctic ice, a mysterious concert plays out each winter. Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) living east of Greenland break into a wide range of complex, intricate songs, showcasing a new set of musical notes every year. Kate Stafford, an oceanographer at the University of Washington, and her colleagues first heard these bowhead whales singing [&#8230;]]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Under the Arctic ice, a mysterious concert plays out each winter. Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) living east of Greenland break into a wide range of complex, intricate songs, showcasing a new set of musical notes every year. Kate Stafford, an oceanographer at the University of Washington, and her colleagues first heard these bowhead whales singing in 2007. The following year, in a preliminary study, Stafford recorded more than 60 unique whale songs from October 2008 to April 2009. “We were hoping when we put the hydrophone out that we might hear a few sounds,” Stafford said in a statement, referring to the study published in 2012. “When we heard, it was astonishing: Bowhead whales were singing loudly, 24 hours a day, from November until April. And they were singing many, many different songs.” A bowhead whale surfaces in Fram Strait, to the northwest of Norway. Photo by Kit Kovacs/Norwegian Polar Institute. Stafford and her team expanded on the study by deploying hydrophones, or underwater microphones, in the Fram Strait between Greenland and the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic from 2010 to 2014. During this period, they recorded 184 different bowhead whale songs, making it the largest set of bowhead song recordings ever, the researchers report in a new study published in Biology Letters. Some song types lasted only a few hours or days, the researchers found. Others persisted over months. But the whales never seemed to repeat their songs between the years. “If humpback whale song is like classical music,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/04/audio-bowhead-whales-in-the-arctic-sing-hundreds-of-complex-songs/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/04/audio-bowhead-whales-in-the-arctic-sing-hundreds-of-complex-songs/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-205505</doi>				</item>
						<item>
					<title>Muskox and other Arctic mammals are feeling the heat of climate change</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/muskox-and-other-arctic-mammals-are-feeling-the-heat-of-climate-change/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/muskox-and-other-arctic-mammals-are-feeling-the-heat-of-climate-change/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>23 Jan 2018 14:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Gloria Dickie]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2018/01/23142438/FEATURED-2-MO-768x452.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=203134</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Alaska, Arctic, Greenland, Russia, siberia, and United States]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Extreme Weather, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Green, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Impact Of Climate Change, Mammals, Mass Extinction, Research, Storms, Weather, and Wildlife]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[A new study finds that more frequent Arctic extreme weather, such as rain-on-snow events, result in smaller head size and possibly lower survival rates in muskox young.]]>
						</description>
																					<content:encoded>
							<![CDATA[Muskoxen take up a defense position. These large mammals are well suited to protecting themselves against Arctic extremes, but they may not be so well equipped to handle the rigors of climate change. Photo by Joel Berger courtesy of the Wildlife Conservation Society In Greenland’s Arctic, the Inuit have a word to describe a bizarre, natural phenomenon that occurs within the frozen landscape: Sassat, which translates as “concentrated animals offered as food.” This word has historically encompassed a range of scenarios, including the spectacular sea ice entrapment of 150 narwhals, 170 belugas and uncounted sea otters in southern Berinigia across the historical record. Increasingly, though, sassats aren’t limited to marine mammals. A Chukchi Sea winter tsunami in 2011, for example, entombed 52 wooly muskox and killed them. The effects of a changing ocean/climate are coming ashore in the Arctic. Once rare extreme weather events like rain-on-snow, ice tidal surges, and severely fluctuating winter precipitation have become characteristic of the new Arctic, and scientists want to know exactly how these weather and climate patterns are impacting the region’s animal populations. Mother and newborn muskox, Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Alaska. Scientists have found that increasingly common extreme weather events, such as rain-on-snow and extremely dry winter conditions occurring in Russia and Alaska during muskox gestation, result in smaller head size among muskoxen young, with smaller animals having poor survivorship rates. Photo by Joel Berger courtesy of the Wildlife Conservation Society A yearling on the run, Igichuk Hills, Alaska. The muskox is the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/muskox-and-other-arctic-mammals-are-feeling-the-heat-of-climate-change/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
						</content:encoded>
										<wfw:commentRss>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/muskox-and-other-arctic-mammals-are-feeling-the-heat-of-climate-change/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
					<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-203134</doi>				</item>
			</channel>
</rss>