Posts Tagged: Arctic

I’m in Tromsø in Norway this week, which is north of the Arctic circle. WWF has brought together some of the world’s leading polar bear experts from Russia, Norway, Greenland, Canada and Alaska in the US – the polar bear ‘range states’ – for a workshop at the Fram High North Research Centre for Climate [...]

Playing a part in a safe, secure and affordable energy system will give an energy company a social licence to operate. But what does such an energy system look like? Well, first let’s look at what it doesn’t look like. Many energy scenarios paint a bleak picture of climate change – with carbon emissions reaching [...]

It’s been a record-breaking, feel-good month in a lot of ways. Team GB’s record Olympic medal haul left us on a high. World records on the track, velodrome, and aquatic centre crashed one after the other. But there is one record that I’d hoped we wouldn’t break this summer. I’m talking about the 2007 record [...]

Today, Jon Taylor, our climate change programme manager, joins me on our polar blog, and will be a regular contributor in the lead up to what is perhaps the biggest and most visible event in the ‘Arctic climate calendar’ – the summer sea-ice minimum. “The Arctic is undergoing rapid change. It is one of the [...]

Let me start with a question – where is there left on our Earth that has never seen a war, and where scientific research and environmental protection (including a complete and indefinite ban on drilling for oil and gas) are the highest priorities? The answer is of course Antarctica, a continent designated under the Antarctic [...]

When people think of WWF’s work protecting wildlife and ecosystems, their first image might be lush rainforests or tropical oceans. For me, and for WWF as a whole, the frozen polar regions of our planet are just as vital. In terms of physical size, the Arctic and Antarctic are two of WWF’s largest priority places. Together they cover almost a [...]

I’m starting to wonder if we saw a glimpse into the future this week… On Monday nuclear power once again proved itself to be unreliable with news emerging of an unexplained shutdown on Sunday of one of the reactors at EDF’s Torness nuclear power station in East Lothian. Thankfully Scotland has grown its renewable energy [...]