The Arctic Ocean has lost 95 percent of its oldest ice — a startling sign of what’s to come

The Arctic Ocean has lost 95 percent of its oldest ice — a startling sign of what’s to come

Posted by on Dec 12, 2018 @ 8:42 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: December 12, 2018

Over the past three decades of global warming, the oldest and thickest ice in the Arctic has declined by a stunning 95 percent, according the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s annual Arctic Report Card. The finding suggests that the sea at the top of the world has already morphed into a new and very different state, with major implications not only for...

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First International Agreement Protecting Newly Opened Arctic High Seas

First International Agreement Protecting Newly Opened Arctic High Seas

Posted by on Nov 9, 2018 @ 1:29 pm in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: November 9, 2018

The Pew Charitable Trusts today praised the signing of an international agreement that prevents unregulated fishing in the high seas of the Central Arctic Ocean for at least 16 years unless science-based measures are agreed upon and established. Delegations from nine nations and the European Union met near Greenland’s Ilulissat Ice Fjord to finalize the accord, the first...

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