Just days after the revelation that Antarctica is melting faster than predicted (See blog), comes news that the Greenland ice sheet is also shrinking fast.
Last summer Greenland’s ice sheet melted more than at anytime in the last 50 years, international glaciologists and climatologists report today in the Journal of Climate.

The Arctic is being hit by melting ice, hotter air and dying wildlife, according to a US government report on the impact of climate change there. A new wind circulation pattern is blowing more warm air towards the North Pole than in the 20th Century, scientists found.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report […]

More depressing news from the Arctic. The Independent newspaper leads on the story that parts of the Arctic have recorded temperatures above 20C, about 15C higher than the long-term average.
Scientists from Queen’s University in Ontario watched with amazement as their thermometers touched 22C during their July field expedition at the High Arctic camp on Melville […]

The giant Ayles Ice Island drifting off Canada’s northern shores has broken in two, much earlier than expected. In a season of record summer melting in the region, the two chunks have moved rapidly through the water - one of them covering 98km (61 miles) in a week.
The original Manhattan-sized berg (16km by five […]

Former US President, Bill Clinton, has told the Financial Times the US needs to unleash “the greatest concentration of economic activity since we mobilised for World War II” by embracing new energy technology and regulatory incentives to tackle climate change.
His comments come as leaders of 80 countries are expected to attend a special UN meeting […]