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New regulations present challenges to wildlife viewing in Svalbard, but they haven’t sent tourism into a deep freeze, says Sarah Marshall.

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As Arctic sea ice begins melting out fully in summer, the frequency of strong El Niños could increase by 35% by century's end, causing extreme weather events to increase, says recent modeling study.

In other words, the loss of Arctic ice is a major cause of climate-related problems throughout the hemisphere and in record numbers unprecedented throughout human history.

The ice north of Greenland is some of the oldest and thickest in the Arctic. But scientists have observed something unusual in this year: open water.

The pack ice in northern Spitsbergen — the largest island in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard — is home to curious polar bears and unearthly landscapes, best accessed by an intrepid cruise.

Such observations are difficult to obtain -- the MOSAiC expedition entailed international collaboration and freezing an icebreaker into the central Arctic ice pack to drift with the sea ice for an ...