Finger Rafting No, it's not a new sport.  It's one of many ways in which ice consolidates. In order to more fully understand what is happening to the Arctic climate we need to understand how sea…

Besides petroleum products below the earth , 97 percent of water is saline on the surface of the earth and major portion of water is obtained from water reserves below the ground. Excessive use of…

NASA Goes To The Arctic NASA is sending a team of scientists to study the Arctic at close quarters.  I guess it's pretty hard to sample phytoplankton with a satellite. NASA Icebreaker Voyage To…

The polar regions are far, far away for most people. Do not count me in among 'most people' though. As a Norwegian I practically live in the Arctic. There are only 8 nations that are (partly)…

Some weeks ago I posted a blog Falodi ( Jodhpur Rajasthan India ) and Jaisalmer and Jodhpur recorded 49.9 degree or almost this temperature and yesterday there was news that floods have come…

Arctic Ice June 2010 - Update This is an update to my article Arctic Ice June 2010, part of my ongoing series of articles about the Arctic. The NSIDC ice extent graph shows a fairly constant and…

Terraforming is the concept of engineering planets to make them habitable for terrestrial life. This idea was born out of fiction. Olaf Stapledon, in his 1930 novel Last and First Men, first…

Environmental catastrophe. Environmental opportunity. What a shame. No, a crime. It's the biggest oil spill in history. (No, wait, the biggest ever was actually spilled on purpose.) Whatever you call…

Iceberg Alley And Global Warming In 1912 there were 1,019 icebergs reported in the North Atlantic shipping lane throughout the iceberg season.  Many of those icebergs were reported in April 1912…

Increasing levels of Carbon d ioxide may promote photosynthesis some time somewhere and have adverse effects in times to come, however population explosion is happening now and here. See the water…