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By Andrew Freedman and Michael D. Lemonick The skin of sea ice that covers the Arctic Ocean has reached its maximum extent for 2013, the National Snow and Ice Data Center announced Monday, and the annual melt season has begun. As of March 15, ice covered...

by Mark Fischetti: Feedback loops between record Arctic temperatures and the jet stream may be altering our weather… In the past year the climate in the Arctic has at times bordered on the absurd. Temperatures were 30 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit above...

There is no longer any doubt that the Earth is warming and that human activities are responsible. The “Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” (IPCC), released on 27 September in Stockholm, confirmed...

This time we have papers relating to oceans: acidification, temperatures in past oceans, AMOC variability, and intermediate Atlantic water in Arctic Ocean. Other studies are about temperatures in Canada, clouds and precipitation of North America, small...

by Patrick Lynch & Mike Finneran, NASA, December 17, 2014 NASA satellite instruments have observed a marked increase in solar radiation absorbed in the Arctic since the year 2000 – a trend that aligns with the steady decrease in Arctic sea ice during...