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US undergrads crash NASA satellite into ArcticSep
1 Undergraduate students in America managed to get control of the manoeuvring thrusters of an orbiting 2000-lb NASA satellite at the weekend, sending it plummeting into the Earth’s atmosphere to rain burning fragments across the chilly seas north of Norway and Russia, says theregister.co.uk more » What’s Sea Ice?Aug
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Aircraft Does Flybys to Analyze Arctic Ice ThicknessAug
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Greenland’s new ice island slides toward the seaAug
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A perfect setup on climate fails to persuadeAug
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Iceberg Four Times Size of Manhattan May Hamper Atlantic ShipsAug
16 According to bloomberg.com, a chunk of ice four times the size of Manhattan broke away from Greenland and may drift toward shipping lanes in the North Atlantic and off the Canadian coast, researchers said. more » Another Symbol of the Arctic’s Complex Ecosystem Finds Itself on Thin IceAug
12 For generations, Yupik and Inupiat hunters have depended on the Pacific walrus., says nytimes.com. They ate the walrus’ meat and whittled its bones into tools. Walrus skin covered their boats, and walrus intestines, stitched into raincoats, covered their backs. Today, the walrus is still an important part of the subsistence diet in villages along Alaska’s Chukchi and Bering sea coasts, and Native Alaskans sell handcrafts made from walrus ivory. more » Iceberg as a Metaphor for InactionAug
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Severe Arctic thaw predicted for this summer: U.S. instituteAug
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According to ouramazingplanet.com, the term “sea ice” has been sending shivers down many spines with the growing threat of global warming, but many non-scientists still misunderstand what sea ice really is. 
According to voices.washingtonpost.com, earlier this month we helped break news of a huge new ice island that calved off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier. (That followed the story from earlier this summer that a major chunk of Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier broke off as well). 
Everything came together this summer, with hot temperatures along the East Coast and testimonials from government scientists that 2010 was the hottest year ever, says oregonlive.com. 
Last week a vast block of ice broke off from the Greenland ice sheet, creating the largest iceberg to form off the country in nearly 50 years, says nytimes.com