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London weather: What is an Arctic blast and when is it coming?

Flights cancelled after weekend of unstable weather

Evening Standard

UK weather: Arctic air brings autumn chill and heavy rain

Band of low pressure will cause drop in temperatures, although sunny spells are possible by the weekend

The Guardian - UK

As a polar guide I need to take a gun to the Arctic. But airlines are freezing me out

I’ve been repeatedly forced to pay a fare before finding out that firearms can’t be carried – after the refund window has closed

The Guardian - UK

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London weather: Arctic air sends night temperature tumbling to 6C... but a warmer weekend is on the way

Lower temperatures follow wet weekend and weather warning in the capital

Evening Standard

The ozone hole above Antarctica will keep opening up each spring for decades to come – here’s why that still matters

At this time of year, as the sun rises over Antarctica, a “hole” opens up in Earth’s ozone layer.

The Conversation

The workhorse ship of ocean drilling may have made its last voyage – here’s why scientists don’t want to see the JOIDES Resolution mothballed

My favorite place in the world isn’t a fixed location. It’s the JOIDES Resolution, an internationally funded research ship that has spent its service life constantly on the move, from deep in the Antarctic to high in the Arctic.

The Conversation

An Alaskan town has a dark history of missing persons. A podcast host is picking up where authorities left off

Joseph Balderas, 36, was last seen on June 24, 2016, in Nome, Alaska. Four years later, on August 31, 2020, Florence Okpealuk, 33, vanished from the same town. Podcast host Payne Lindsey traveled to the edge of the Arctic circle to find out more for a new season of Up…

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'Closer than people think': Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality — and we have no idea what happens next

Scientists are getting very close to bringing a few iconic species, like woolly mammoths and dodos, back from extinction. That may not be a good thing.

LiveScience

Satellites Discovered Something Bizarre in the 1960s — We Finally Know What It Is

Researcher’s from NASA recently launched a rocket high into the sky over the Arctic to measure the electrical charge of Earth’s atmosphere.

Inverse

Arctic expedition uncovers deep-sea microbes that may harbor the next generation of antibiotics

Analysis of samples from an expedition to the Arctic Ocean suggest that marine microbes could be a promising new source of antibiotics.

LiveScience

Climate change is killing off crabs

In 2022, crab fishing season was cancelled due to a massive population crash. Our heating world is to blame

Salon

Collision course: polar bears forced into people’s path by climate crisis

Recent encounters – one fatal – in Canada highlight how sea ice changes have disrupted Arctic predator’s search for food

The Guardian - US

‘Nobody ever saw anything like this before’: how methane emissions are pushing the Amazon towards environmental catastrophe

As the world heats up, methane released from thawing permafrost and warming tropical wetlands is intensifying climate breakdown. But curbing it is achievable

The Guardian - UK

Bleak photo of polar bear with plastic in its jaws in the remote Arctic shows pollution's 'pervasive grip'

Image of polar bear with plastic hanging from its mouth shortlisted for Ocean Photographer of the Year 2024 award.

LiveScience

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Polar bears kill a worker in a rare attack in Canada's Arctic region

Two bears set on the worker, and despite intervention, the attack proved fatal

Evening Standard

Canadian worker killed in polar bear attack at government radar outpost

One of the bears was put down following the attack on Brevoort Island in the Canadian Arctic

LiveScience

Earth from space: High winds paint puzzling ice streaks across the sea in Antarctica

A 2021 satellite photo captured rare, wispy streaks of ice stretching across an ocean channel separating the Ronne Ice Shelf and a patch of multi-year sea ice in Antarctica.

Space

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches for record-tying 22nd time, sending Arctic broadband satellites to orbit (video)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched for a record-tying 22nd time on Sunday night (Aug. 11), sending aloft two satellites that will provide broadband coverage in the Arctic region.

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The Conversation

First map of vegetation across Antarctica reveals a battle for the continent’s changing landscape

A tiny seed is stuck between loose gravel and coarse sand. There is nothing else alive around it. All it can see is a wall of ice reaching 20 metres up into the sky. It is cold. Survival is hard around here. In winter, it is dark even during the…

The Guardian - US

‘It’s devastating’: summer in Canada’s Arctic region brings severe heatwaves

Temperatures in Canada – and especially the Arctic – are climbing faster than the global average, with highs of 33C

The Conversation

Ancient poppy seeds and willow wood offer clues to the Greenland ice sheet’s last meltdown and a glimpse into a warmer future

As we focused our microscope on the soil sample for the first time, bits of organic material came into view: a tiny poppy seed, the compound eye of an insect, broken willow twigs and spikemoss spores. Dark-colored spheres produced by soil fungi dominated our view.

The Conversation

From microbes to mammals: we tracked the rapid rise of new ecosystems as glaciers retreat and ice sheets melt

As global temperatures inch upwards year after year, the world’s glaciers retreat. These rivers of ice and the even larger ice sheets which cover Greenland and Antarctica are melting – and the melt is speeding up.

The Independent UK

What are the huge naval drills Russia is carrying out?

Vladimir Putin’s forces are conducting naval drills in the Pacific and Arctic Oceans, and Baltic and Caspian seas

The Independent UK

Mountaineer’s bid to finish epic Explorer Grand Slam thwarted by breaking Arctic sea ice just 24 hours before departure (cloned)

Nick Hollis, 50, decided to leave his high-flying corporate career for mountaineering in 2012

Al Jazeera

US wary of China-Russia cooperation in increasingly strategic Arctic

Beijing and Moscow accuse the US of misplaced and confrontational criticism of their actions in the polar region.

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