A Warming Arctic Emerges as a Route for Subsea Cables
Northern countries are racing to build undersea communications cables through the waters of the Arctic, as shrinking ice coverage opens the region to new…
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How Ants Inspired a New Way to Measure Snow With Space Lasers
Ants, as a group, are creatures of habit. While an individual’s path isn’t certain, biologists who have spent a lot of time watching the behavior of entire…
Intel dishes new details on its Arctic Sound-M GPUs – and there’s plenty to like
Intel has offered up fresh details on its new line of datacenter GPUs, codenamed Arctic Sound-M (ATS-M), first announced in February.At Intel Vision 2022,…
Rapid changes to the Arctic seafloor noted as submerged permafrost thaws: Using MBARI mapping…
A new study from MBARI researchers and their collaborators is the first to document how the thawing of permafrost, submerged underwater at the edge of the…
Even Arctic faces rising wildfire risk, experts warn ahead of UN Environment Assembly
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New Delhi, February 23
Climate change and land-use change are projected to make wildfires more…
Huge Sponges Are Eating an Extinct Arctic Ecosystem
Stretching for nearly 80 miles across the seafloor of the central Arctic, the Langseth Ridge is craggy, barren, and generally inhospitable. And it should be:…
Polestar’s ‘Arctic Circle’ performance EV can shred a snowy track
Polestar, the electric automaker jointly owned by Volvo and Geely, likes one-offs. There was the more powerful version of its electric fastback Polestar 2…
Humanity Has Turned Land Itself Into a Menace
Buildings in Russia are crumbling like they’re made of Lego bricks. Alaska spends millions of dollars each year repairing roads that are dipping and…
The World Was Cooler in 2021 Than 2020. That’s Not Good News
Today NASA and NOAA dropped their annual analysis of global temperatures: Last year was tied with 2018 as the sixth-hottest ever, but cooler than 2020. A…
Wildfires Are Digging Carbon-Spewing Holes in the Arctic
But that insulation is being undone by climate change, which is heating the Arctic four times as fast as the rest of the planet. “In an undisturbed tundra…