Arctic Ocean is turning red

The Arctic Ocean is turning red, as sea surface temperatures (SST) rise. The NOAA maps below, dated August 12, 2013, show sea surface temper...

Warm water keeps flowing into the Kara Sea

The image below, from methanetracker.org , shows methane levels at 1950 and higher in yellow, for the period of July 17 to July 23, 2013. [ ...

Open Water at North Pole

Images from the North Pole Environmental Observatory are now showing large areas with open water at the North Pole. The image below is from ...

High methane readings over Kara Sea

Arctic sea ice extent 2013 (brown line on NSIDC -image below) is more and more following the same path it did last year (dashed line), when ...

Overview of IASI methane levels

Dr. Leonid Yurganov kindly shared an overview of his analysis of IASI methane levels over the years. The overview shows a marked difference ...

Temperature anomalies continue in the Arctic

Much of the Arctic is showing huge temperature anomalies at the moment. The image below shows the anomalies for February 24, 2012.   Locatio...

Methane venting in the Arctic

Above chart, based on historic NASA land-surface air temperature anomaly data (see interactive map at the bottom of this page), shows that t...

Temperature anomalies over 20 degrees Celsius

The area of the Kara Sea, Franz Josef Land and Svalbard shows temperature anomalies of over 20 degrees Celsius. How can such anomalies be ex...