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Lots of environmentally bad stuff is happening as the world's permafrost melts, mostly in the realm of releasing stored greenhouse gases.

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Recent projections on the extent of Arctic sea ice melt showed, though this year's melting would be significant, no new record would be set.

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Knock off one natural counterbalance to global warming: A new study in the Science shows that any hope that as Arctic sea ice melts and opens up new areas of open water potentially

Soot from vehicle exhaust, power generation and burning biomass is the second most important contributor to global warming.

Guest Commentary by Dirk Notz, MPI Hamburg

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NASA's just released some pretty dramatic satellite photos of the north branch of Greenland's Jakobshavn glacier from July 6 and 7--when an area of ice 2.7 square miles in size ( more than twice the size of New York City's Central

The barge of Russia's floating nuclear power plant, Academician Lomonosov, is launched at the Baltic Shipyard.

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Two pieces on Arctic ice which are worth paying attention to today: 1) Via Climate Progress,

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) takes measurements of an anesthetized polar bear during a visit to a research institute in the Arctic Ocean.

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Some communities in Alaska are finding that the once-permanent but now receding Arctic sea ice is stranding some unwelcome visitors - of the polar bear kind.