Free lecture - Arctic Caribou for International Polar Year
Come to the Canadian Museum of Nature on April 1 for a free lecture by wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer about Arctic Caribou. The presentation is the launch of a national speakers series for International Polar Year.
Research frenzy greets Arctic spring
ABOARD CCGS AMUNDSEN-After being icebound on the Coast Guard's Amundsen icebreaker for nearly four days, dozens of researchers yesterday fanned out on the ice in a controlled scientific frenzy. They're racing against time to begin taking measurements and placing crucial detectors before the looming chemical and biological explosion of the Arctic spring. The study will occupy the Amundsen for 10 months, until this August. Involving 200 scientists from 14 countries, it is Canada's largest project for International Polar Year, which runs from March 2007 to March 2009.
Antarctic Ice Shelf 'Hangs by a Thread'
British Antarctic Survey has captured dramatic satellite and video images of an Antarctic ice shelf that looks set to be the latest to break out from the Antarctic Peninsula. A large part of the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula is now supported only by a thin strip of ice hanging between two islands. It is another identifiable impact of climate change on the Antarctic environment. Regular satellite images of Wilkins Ice Shelf were obtained using NASA’s Modis instruments and the International Polar Year, Polar View project which uses the European Space Agency Envisat satellite.
UN warns of ice cap melting
THE head of the UN intergovernment climate change body has voiced strong concern at the accelerated melting of the polar ice caps, calling for international tariffs on carbon emissions.
"Now there's enough evidence to show that there is accelerated melting of some of these large bodies of ice; west Antarctic ice-sheet, the Greenland ice-sheet," Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said at the European Parliament in Brussels overnight.
