Drivers, dynamics and impacts of changing Arctic coasts

AM Irrgang, M Bendixen, LM Farquharson… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Arctic coasts are vulnerable to the effects of climate change, including rising sea levels and
the loss of permafrost, sea ice and glaciers. Assessing the influence of anthropogenic …

Cross-chapter paper 6: Polar regions

AJ Constable, S Harper, J Dawson, K Holsman… - IPCC AR WGII, 2022 - epic.awi.de
The polar regions, notably the Arctic and maritime Antarctic, are experiencing impacts from
climate change at magnitudes and rates that are among the highest in the world, and will …

Trans-Arctic shipping routes expanding faster than the model projections

Y Cao, S Liang, L Sun, J Liu, X Cheng, D Wang… - Global Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rapid declines in Arctic sea ice coverage over the past four decades have increased the
commercial feasibility of trans-Arctic routes. However, the historical changes in navigability …

Arctic roads and railways: social and environmental consequences of transport infrastructure in the circumpolar North

O Povoroznyuk, WF Vincent, P Schweitzer… - Arctic …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Land-based transport corridors and related infrastructure are increasingly extending into
and across the Arctic in support of resource development and population growth, causing …

An updated assessment of the changing Arctic sea ice cover

WN Meier, J Stroeve - Oceanography, 2022 - JSTOR
Sea ice is an essential component of the Arctic climate system. The Arctic sea ice cover has
undergone substantial changes in the past 40+ years, including decline in areal extent in all …

The emerging Arctic shipping corridors

C Min, Q Yang, D Chen, Y Yang, X Zhou… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The dramatic sea ice loss makes trans‐Arctic navigation possible. However, navigability
assessments at high temporal resolution are still very limited. To bridge this gap, daily sea …

Sea ice choke points reduce the length of the shipping season in the Northwest Passage

AJ Cook, J Dawson, SEL Howell, JE Holloway… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Arctic sea ice has shifted from a perennial (older, thicker ice) to a seasonal (younger,
thinner) ice regime, leading to the increasingly common belief that shipping through …

Experience exceeds awareness of anthropogenic climate change in Greenland

K Minor, ML Jensen, L Hamilton, M Bendixen… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Although Greenland is a hub for climate science, the climate perceptions of Greenland's
predominantly Indigenous population have remained largely unstudied. Here we present …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of Arctic commercial shipping on environments and communities: context, governance, priorities

HP Huntington, J Olsen, E Zdor, A Zagorskiy… - … Research Part D …, 2023 - Elsevier
Increasing shipping traffic in the Arctic Ocean creates an emerging need to understand the
consequences of maritime operations on the Arctic environment and coastal Indigenous and …

A frequent ice-free Arctic is likely to occur before the mid-21st century

Z Shen, W Zhou, J Li, JCL Chan - npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2023 - nature.com
Although the trend of sea-ice extent under global warming has been studied extensively in
recent years, most climate models have failed to capture the recent rapid change in the …