Category: arctic

Permafrost slump | Engadget

Post author By Randall
Post date May 28, 2020
Categories In arctic, arctic circle, Climate Change, conservation, feature, ice, permafrost, Tech, tomorrow, tuktoyatuk

[ad_1] In the winter, folks in Tuk watch the sun set for the last time on November 28th and celebrate its return on January 13th. The average February temperature is –26°C. Lows regularly dip to the point of convergence between Celsius and Fahrenheit: -40°. Ski-Doos brap across the crust of snow on Tuk’s lakes and lands […]

Scientists have even found microplastics in the Arctic

Post author By Randall
Post date August 14, 2019
Categories In arctic, arctic oean, green, microplastics, plastic pollution, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] The study was lead by Dr. Melanie Bergmann of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. Bergmann and a group of scientists analyzed and compared snow samples from the Arctic, the Swiss Alps and certain areas of Germany. While the level of microplastics they found was was much lower in the Arctic […]