Polar News and Notes Monthly News Roundup

News from the polar regions in October 2009 included a NASA air campaign to monitor the Antarctic ice sheets and coastal sea ice, continued concerns over the high levels of global carbon dioxide and climate change, and engineering technology to fight erosion. Missed these stories the first time around? Read on!
A laser technique used successfully […]

News from the polar regions during September included many applications of satellite technology, ecological impacts of climate change, and calls for continued research in the Arctic. Missed these stories the first time? Read on!
1999 to 2008 was the warmest decade in the Arctic in two millennia, notes a new study. This is a reversal of […]

News from the polar regions during August included new research on marine and terrestrial mammals and continued news about glacial loss worldwide. Missed these stories the first time? Read on!
Once scarce (and even thought to be extinct), bowhead whales again inhabit Disko Bay in northwest Greenland. Researchers have found that the whales produce two different […]

It’s winter in the Southern Hemisphere, so most of the news from the polar regions in July had to do with the Arctic and its declining sea ice. Other news included studies of the effects of aerosols on climate and new research about the aurora. Missed these stories the first time? Read on!
June 2009 set […]

News from the polar regions during June included reconstructions of past climates and carbon dioxide levels, changes in the Greenland ice sheet, and impacts of climate change on Arctic people and mammals. Missed these stories the first time around? Read on!
Researchers analyzing plankton shells have reconstructed carbon dioxide levels over the past 2.1 million years. […]