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Polar ice packs

Ice scientists Ken Golden and Chris Polashenski drill a plastic tube into the Arctic ice cap north of Alaska as part of their research into melt ponds that form on the ice every spring. The ponds play a key role in the accellerated warming of the Arctic,

A scientist unlocks one of the mysteries of Arctic ice melt

Environment

On a research voyage through the Arctic ice cap, a scientist has a eureka moment, one that he hopes will help solve some of the riddles about Arctic ice melt — and what’s ahead for the rest of the planet as the climate warms up.

Sea ice melt

Melting Arctic sea ice doubles the chances of harsh winters in other parts of the world

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Arctic Summit

Arctic Melting Speeds Up Rising Sea Levels

Shepa Artic Ice Project

SHRINKING POLAR PACK ICE

By looking at whaling records, an Australian researchers has reported the dramatic finding that the once stable Antarctic seasonal sea ice shrunk twenty-five percent in the 1950’s and 1960’s. The report in the journal Nature lends credence to fears that sudden climate shifts are possible. Steve Curwood spoke with William K. de la Mare from […]

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Arctic Ice

Producer Bob Carty travels to Canada’s western Arctic and reports on how warming temperatures and thinning ice in that region could alter weather patterns and effect life for people well south of the polar belt.

Arctic Ice Hole

A tourist group aboard an icebreaker ship didn’t need to break much ice to reach the North Pole last month. Host Steve Curwood talks with Harvard University oceanographer James McCarthy, a leader of the tour, about the open water witnessed on the trip and the attention it focused on climate change in the Arctic.

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Arctic ice may soon disappear

Scientists from NASA say the earth’s arctic ice is thinning at a rate must faster then previously thought, and while earlier predictions suggested the ice would disappear by the year 2040