We are heading towards a new, and largely unknown, Arctic that will have large ramifications for natural and political systems alike, Tore Furevik says in his key note talk at Arctic Frontiers 2019.  

Almost one-fifth of the world’s population depends on rivers coming from the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau. Yet, only one in a thousand glaciers and lakes in this region have monitoring stations and constraints on the hydrological cycle are poor, Hans Christian Steen-Larsen and colleagues writes in a comment in Nature. 

– We are part of the delegations, but we are not heard when it matters, Mari Hasle Einang of the Norwegian Children and Youth Council said at the Arctic-Pacific side event at the climate top meeting COP24 in Katowice, Poland

The temperature of the subpolar North Atlantic is going lower. This implies decreasing cod stocks in the Barents Sea over the next five to six years, shows study.

With an ERC Consolidator Grant grant of 2,6 mill Euro, Stijn De Schepper will develop ancient DNA as a new tool for documenting past sea ice change.