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Arctic Sea ice melts to second-place finish at annual minimum

Gloria Dickie 21 Sep 2020

Siberian heat drives Arctic ice extent to record low for early July

Gloria Dickie 10 Jul 2020

Climate conundrum: Could COVID-19 be linked to early Arctic ice melt?

Gloria Dickie 8 Jun 2020

Game changer? Antarctic ice melt related to tropical weather shifts: Study

Gloria Dickie 1 Apr 2020

Melting Arctic sea ice may be altering winds, weather at equator: study

Gloria Dickie 27 Jan 2020

2019’s top 10 ocean news stories (commentary)

Emma Critchley and Douglas McCauley 25 Dec 2019

Vanishing sea ice in the Arctic could shake up seabird migrations

John Cannon 11 Dec 2019

World is fast losing its cool: Polar regions in deep trouble, say scientists

Gloria Dickie 4 Dec 2019

Shrinking sea ice in the Arctic opens new pathways for animal disease

Mongabay.com 2 Dec 2019

Emperor penguins could disappear by 2100 if nations don’t cap emissions

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2019

IPCC special report finds oceans and cryosphere changing rapidly due to global warming

Mongabay.com 25 Sep 2019

The Arctic and climate change (1979 – 2019): What the ice record tells us

Gloria Dickie 18 Sep 2019

2019 in line for second lowest Arctic sea ice extent record

Gloria Dickie 19 Aug 2019

July 2019 was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth

Mongabay.com 2 Aug 2019

June 2019 was the hottest on record: NOAA

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2019

Arctic in free fall: 2019 sea ice volume sinks to near record for June

Gloria Dickie 11 Jul 2019

Antarctic sea ice declining ‘precipitously’ since 2014, study finds

Mongabay.com 3 Jul 2019

More than 50 lakes lie hidden beneath Greenland ice sheet, study finds

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2019

Arctic sea ice extent just hit a record low for early June; worse may come

Gloria Dickie 12 Jun 2019

Large emperor penguin colony suffers ‘catastrophic’ breeding failure

Mongabay.com 26 Apr 2019

As Arctic neared 2019 winter max, Bering Sea was virtually ice-free

Gloria Dickie 18 Mar 2019

Antarctica now shedding ice six times faster than in 1979

Mongabay.com 14 Jan 2019
The Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Image by Christopher Brunner/ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).

2018’s top 10 ocean news stories (commentary)

Douglas McCauley, Francis Joyce 24 Dec 2018

Whales not enough sustenance for polar bears in fast-changing climate

Mongabay.com 10 Oct 2018

Agreement bans commercial fishing across much of the Arctic, for now

Mongabay.com 4 Oct 2018

Taking it slow can help reduce impacts of Arctic shipping on whales (commentary)

Matt Pine 28 Aug 2018

The Arctic’s oldest, thickest ice is breaking up

Gloria Dickie 22 Aug 2018

Red flags abound as a warming Arctic opens up to shipping

Basten Gokkon 18 Jul 2018

2018 Arctic sea ice melt season just got a big headstart

Gloria Dickie 19 Jun 2018
A manta ray in the South China Sea. Photo by Greg Asner/Divephoto.org.

2017’s top 10 ocean news stories

Douglas McCauley and Paul DeSalles 27 Dec 2017

At 2017 minimum, scientists ask: Is Arctic entering the Thin Ice Age?

Gloria Dickie 25 Sep 2017

Antarctica’s Larsen C calves giant 5,800 square kilometer iceberg

Gloria Dickie 12 Jul 2017

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