The Arctic Oceans spans more than five million square miles and although the water is salty, thousands of years ago the vast ocean was a filled with freshwater. Researchers found that the Arctic Ocean as well as the Nordic Seas did not contain sea-salt in at least two glacial periods – once about 70,000 to … Read more
Three quarters of the microplastic pollution in the Arctic ocean is made up of polyester fibres from clothing and other textiles, a study has found. Canadian experts sampled seawater from 71 locations, finding that synthetic fibres more broadly make up types 92 per cent of microplastic pollution in the Arctic. Furthermore, sea water in the Arctic … Read more
Pictures have been released of miracle survivors from a Russian boat which sank in icy Arctic waters this morning, leaving 17 fishermen feared dead. The two men were rescued from The Onega, which sank off the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in Russia‘s far north at 7am local time, after reportedly becoming ‘caked with ice’. Boatswain Vladislav Butorin, … Read more
Hunt for 17 fishermen feared dead after their boat became ‘caked with ice’ and sank in minus 30 temperatures in the Russian Arctic The Onega sank in the Russian arctic in the early hours of Monday morning A search and rescue mission is under way for 17 missing members of the 19-strong crew after two … Read more
Britons today opened their curtains to fresh snow, with weather experts now forecasting -6C Arctic blasts and four more inches later today – sparking road and rail chaos warnings. Areas of the north such of the north, including Wigan and Manchester, were blanketed in snow overnight, along with Stoke-on-Trent in the Midlands. Meanwhile, Londoners woke … Read more
While 2020 was one of the lowest years for active fires globally, fire intensity has been far higher in the worst affected areas, according to the EU’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service.
The Arctic’s sweltering 2020 continues in earnest with temperatures last weekend reaching more than 5° (12°F) above the norm for the 1990s. This alarming recording, from the University of Maine‘s Climate Reanlayzer, is an average figure for the entire Arctic, an area measuring some 7.7 million square miles. In some isolated pockets, the temperature is … Read more
Britain braces for a cold snap as Arctic winds send mercury plummeting as low as -5C in Scotland with frost across England this week and 60mph gales Parts of Britain are braced for a chilly week ahead as winds continue to blow in from the Arctic Mercury will plummet with widespread icy conditions in Scotland … Read more
An Arctic blast is set to bring strong winds and torrential rain to the North from tonight with Britain also preparing for its coldest winter in eight years in the run-up to Christmas. After recent mild winters, this year is expected to be colder than average according to forecasters at The Weather Company, with the Met … Read more
Ancient reserves of the greenhouse gas methane trapped in ice for millions of years in the Arctic Ocean are being released into the atmosphere, researchers claim. The deposits of methane and other gases, dubbed hydrates, have previously been dubbed the ‘sleeping giants of the carbon cycle’. An international research team on a Russian ship spotted … Read more