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Video introduction to WWF's Earth Hour City Challenge

A short video introduction to WWF's Earth Hour City Challenge, a competition among U.S. cities to prepare for climate change and to shift away from fossil fuels.read more

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Alaska climate webinar to discuss Bristol Bay salmon

Event Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 10:00am - 11:00amA webinar, Climate Change and Potential Impacts on Bristol Bay Sockeye Salmon Populations will take place Wednesday, Sept. 26 2012 from 10...

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"An Unprecedented Planetary Distress Signal": Arctic Sea Ice Extent Bottoms...

The U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center today (19 Sept 2012) announced that the extent of Arctic sea ice reached an annual minimum of 1.32 million square miles, the lowest sea ice extent on record...

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Losing the Top of the World: Breaking the Arctic Sea Ice One Record at a Time

In our world of information overload, we get used to hearing of records being broken. Even so, some moments stand out -- including now the record low Arctic sea ice extent reached earlier this month....

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With Record Low Sea Ice Extent, Polar Bears Persevere on Marginal Ice -- or...

On Saturday, 15 September -- the day before the Arctic sea ice extent reached its record low -- a scientist aboard the USGS Healy spotted a polar bear struggling across thin ice.  Her photos capture a...

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In Alaska's Chukchi Sea: Shell Resumes Offshore Drilling as Nearby Walruses...

The story of this year's Arctic sea ice decline did not end on 16 September when the sea ice reached its official minimum extent for the Arctic overall. The decline has continued in the Chukchi Sea --...

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Make Tracks for Walruses: Second Annual WCS Run for the Wild

Event Date: Saturday, October 6, 2012 - 8:00am Event Location:  New York City Sponsored by the Wildlife Conservation Society at the New York Aquarium at Coney Island to support its work to save...

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With Inadequate Sea Ice North of Alaska, Walruses Haul-Out Along Russian Coast

We reported last week (26 September 2012), that sea ice in the Chukchi Sea north of Alaska had declined to the point where the National Ice Center had characterized an area preferred by walruses (Hanna...

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In Film "Chasing Ice," See How Climate Change Puts the Planet on a Slippery...

Whether or not we take action to slow climate change and prepare for its impacts depends a lot on compelling images of what is happening to the planet around us, and on visualizing alternative futures....

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Federal Report: Rising Seas and Climate Change Threaten Coasts, as Local...

A new report on climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability in coastal areas of the U.S. warns that coping with sea level rise and coastal disruption "will be a challenge for coastal economies...

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Tracking Pacific Walrus: Expedition to the Shrinking Chukchi Sea Ice (video)

This twelve minute video from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) starts with the biologists describing some of the many endearing qualities of walruses,  explaining how important sea ice is to the...

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Release of National Climate Assessment Public Review Draft: 11 January 2013

Event Date: Friday, January 11, 2013 (All day) Event Location:  Washington, DC

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U.S. Unveils Arctic Strategy while Announcing that Atmospheric Concentrations...

The White House on Friday (10 May 2013) released a National Strategy for the Arctic Region, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that daily average atmospheric...

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New WWF web tool maps Arctic nature and activities

As Arctic Council Ministers prepare to meet to outline priorities for the Council’s next two years, WWF has released a mapping tool to help inform those priorities, ArkGIS.read more

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WWF Climate Blog Has Moved to New Location

The WWF climate blog now is located at a different Web address: worldwildlife.org/blogs/wwf-climate-blog.  All posts since May 2013 are at that location, while older posts will remain archived on this...

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