Sea Ice

UN sounds alarm over record Arctic ice melt

2 May 2013

The Arctic’s sea ice melted at a record pace last year, the ninth-hottest year on record, compounding concerns about climate change underscored by extreme weather such as Hurricane Sandy, the UN...

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Arctic ice loss highlights climate risk, says UN body

19 Feb 2013

Last year's record shrinkage of Arctic sea ice and a spell of catastrophic droughts, floods and storms highlight the risk to the planet from climate change, the UN Environment Programme (Unep)...

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China Digest, January 9, 2013

9 Jan 2013

More than 10,000 of the capital's 66,000 taxi drivers refuse to work morning and afternoon rush hours, because profits are severely affected by traffic jams, People's Daily reports, citing its own...

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Arctic Sea ice retreats to record minimum as UN climate talks stall

9 Dec 2012

The fast-changing Arctic broke new records for loss of sea ice and spring snow cover this year, as well as the extent of the summertime melt of the Greenland ice sheet, according to US scientists...

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Sea ice in Arctic Ocean declines to a record low

29 Aug 2012

The sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has melted to its smallest point ever in a milestone that may show that worst-case forecasts on climate change are coming true, US scientists say.

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No proof that wild weather signifies a warming planet. But don't bet against it

10 Jul 2012

It was 42 degrees Celsius in St Louis, Missouri, last weekend, about the same as in Saudi Arabia. Along the US Atlantic coast, it was cooler, but not much: 41degrees in Washington DC, just short...

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

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Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

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A sea lane promising all manner of possibilities

Innovation and entrepreneurship have contributed to China's rising prosperity. And it is these attributes that lie behind the voyage of the Hong Kong-flagged carrier, Nordic Barents.

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Sailing through ice

Silent Sound sailed through a lot of ice this summer, but not nearly as much as there once was covering the Arctic seas, and not as much as the animals of the Arctic need to survive.

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Breaking the ice

Icy nouns

Make sure you don't slip on the ice and fall over as you work through this exercise. Tread carefully.

What is ...

1 black ice?

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Arctic meltdown has a silver lining for business

Since the dawn of history, the Arctic has been locked up with snow and ice, a dead end of little consequence for East Asia. But the ice is melting, and quickly, focusing minds in the littoral...

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