Sea Ice in decline between Svalbard and Greenland

[ click on image to enlarge ] Above image shows that Earth's highest atmospheric methane concentrations are recorded over the Arctic Oce...

Greenland Sea hit by M5.3 Earthquake

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 on the Richter scale hit the Greenland Sea near  Svalbard  on October 28, 2013. [ Earthquake indicated...

High Methane Readings over Arctic Ocean

The image below shows a lot of methane over the Arctic Ocean on September 19, 2013 (pm). Very worrying are the high methane readings close ...

Huge patches of warm air over the Arctic

Over the past month or so, huge patches with temperature anomalies of over 20 degrees Celsius have been forming over the Arctic. The three i...

Methane hydrates: a volatile time bomb in the Arctic

By Carlos Duarte , University of Western Australia and  Antonio Delgado Huertas , Spanish Scientific Research Council CSIC Methane locked un...

Methane venting in the Arctic

Above chart, based on historic NASA land-surface air temperature anomaly data (see interactive map at the bottom of this page), shows that t...

Temperature anomalies over 20 degrees Celsius

The area of the Kara Sea, Franz Josef Land and Svalbard shows temperature anomalies of over 20 degrees Celsius. How can such anomalies be ex...