There’s no doubt that Arctic sea ice is melting at record rates, with rising temperatures in the region outpacing the global average increase, but a new article in Science questions whether there will ever be a tipping point in Arctic ice melting….Read the full story on TreeHugger

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After scaling the Cairn oil rig Leiv Eiriksson off the coast of Greenland and enduring a water cannon, Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo was arrested Friday and taken into custody. Kumi’s brave action came after repeated calls from Greenpeace for Cairn to produce its oil spill response plan which it has thus far refused to do. Kumi carried with him the names of 50,000 people who have asked Cairn to stop exploratory drilling in the Arctic. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

A line of stones from 1890. Image courtesy of Cape Farewell.

This guest post was written by Paul D. Miller, also known as DJ Spooky, as part of the Cape Farewell project.

When a man journeys into a far country, he must be prepared to forget many of the things he has learned, and to acquire such customs as are inherited with existence in the new land; he must abandon the old ideals and the old gods, and oftimes he must reverse the very codes by which his conduct has hitherto been shaped.
- Jack London, In a Far Country

Today, we moved thro…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Though currently the extent of Arctic sea ice in lower than it was back in 2007, when the current record minimum was set, two different groups of German scientists’ forecasts show continued rapid decline but no new record to be set by this September. …Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) takes measurements of an anesthetized polar bear during a visit to a research institute in the Arctic Ocean. Photo by Alexei Nikolsky/RIA-Novosti/AP via the Moscow Times.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was reportedly shocked to see what a mess the Soviet Union had made of its Arctic territories, prompting a pledge to clean up the thousands of fue…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Some communities in Alaska are finding that the once-permanent but now receding Arctic sea ice is stranding some unwelcome visitors – of the polar bear kind. Researchers recently found that disappearing sea ice habitat (which is preferred by polar bears) is leading to unprecedented numbers of polar bears stressed out, stranded on land and wandering into human territory that they once avoided. To deal with the problem…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Even in the one of the harshest, most remote regions of the world, humans have managed to make quite a mess. This is a sad reality Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin learned all too well today as he visited the arctic island of Alexandra Land, some 600 miles from the North Pole. What Putin saw as he surveyed the horizon wasn’t the picturesque landscape he might have imagined, but instead, as he put it, “abandoned barrels of fuel spread to the horizon.” Th…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Considering that by all accounts the Arctic is decidedly getting warmer and trending towards at least ice-free summers, the world needs some new rules to govern the area. That’s what WWF says. “A new, warmer Arctic cannot continue to operate under rules that assume it is ice-covered and essentially closed to fishing, resource exploration and development, and shipping.” WWF covers the situation and its recommendations in a couple PDFs (linked at bottom), but this is the gist of it:

1) Even though a quarter of the fish eaten in Europe come from the Arctic, there are no rules governi…Read the full story on TreeHugger

Comparison of Arctic summer sea ice image: EPA

It’s long been known that melting Arctic ice could help speed global warming. As the ice melts, surface reflectivity changes, more heat is absorbed than reflected, more warming. But now a new study in Nature confirms that this is already happening, with melting Arctic ice being the main cause of the higher than average warming the region has experienced….Read the full story on TreeHugger

Filmmaker Copeland on thin ice. Photo courtesy of Into the Cold

Because it’s still there? To commemorate the centennial of Adm. Robert Peary’s first-ever expedition to the Arctic, environmentalist Sebastian Copeland trudged 700 kilometers across the top of the world to demonstrate how the ice is thinning. Less than 150 people in the last century have f…Read the full story on TreeHugger