According to explorersweb.com, several sailboats will try to go through the Northwest and Northeast Passage this Arctic summer. It is not a given that they succeed, says Arctic ice expert and adventurer Knut Espen Solberg. more »

Arctic Ocean sea ice melted faster last month than it has in any previous June since satellite measurements began 30 years ago, continuing a pattern that could see a record retreat by summer’s end, according to North America’s main ice-monitoring research centre, says vancouversun.com more »

Dr. Kevin Arrigo is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Earth System Science at Stanford University. He is the Chief Scientist for NASA’s ICESCAPE (Impact of Climate change on the Eco-Systems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment) mission this summer onboard US Coast Guard Cutter HEALY, says science.dodlive.mil more »

According to thenewamerican.com, at last December’s UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, former Vice President Al Gore shrilly proclaimed that “The entire polar ice cap … could be completely ice free within the next five to seven years.” As implausible as Gore’s claim already was at the time, recent developments in the arctic have only served to make the fear of an ice-free polar zone all the more absurd. more »

An expedition by environmental group Greenpeace has revealed a stunning array of sea life on the Arctic Ocean seabed, says cnn.com

The crew on board the Greenpeace ship, Esperanza, sailed to waters north of Norway’s Svalbard Islands to record the footage. more »

While the world’s eyes focus on the catastrophe in the Gulf, climatologists are tracking a decades-old cataclysm at the top of the world — dwindling Arctic sea ice, says miller-mccune.com more »