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Dug out additional footage to tell more of the story of (the late) Dark Snow Project’s inaugural field work in Greenland.If you saw the first two parts, and the run up Greenland’s coast, this completes the narrative of critical sample gathering deep in the heart of Big Ice.

Single most mind-expanding day of my life.After waiting a week for access to a chopper, and a decent weather window – we were running out of time to grab the core samples Dr Jason Box needed to make his case about the effects of wildfire soot on Greenland’s melt.We spent a night in Greenland’s capital, … Continue reading “OTD 2013: Dark Snow Project Running up the Coast of Greenland, and Running Out of Time”

Jason Box’s 2012 epiphany that lead to forming the Dark Snow Project now further born out in new research. BBC: The dense plumes of wildfire smoke seen in recent years are contributing to the warming of the Arctic, say scientists.  Their study says that particles of “brown carbon” in the smoke are drifting north and … Continue reading “Dark Snow: Wildfire Smoke plays Big Role in Melting Arctic Sea Ice”

Really spectacular footage here of avalanches, and do stay to the end. ABC interviewed Mackenzie Skiles, the snow expert who was with us 10 years ago on the first Dark Snow field work in Greenland. UPDATE: 3 climbers killed in Washington avalanche. Below, with Dr Skiles in Greenland.

I went back to Greenland after a 4 year hiatus with scientist and Dark Snow buddy Marek Stibal of Charles University. His team is investigating some puzzling reports of methane emissions from melting glaciers. Might be something we should know more about.

Diana Olick at CNBC continues her terrific reporting on economic and infrastructure impacts of climate change, this time in the Second City. Room Rating note: in her wrap up explanation, Diana tastefully displays Jeff Goodell’s “The Water Will Come” on her bookshelf, which recounts, among other things, Jeff’s experience with Dark Snow Project in Greenland.

After a 3 season hiatus, I’ll be heading back to Greenland next month.My last planned trip to the Arctic, which was to have been in Svalbard, was cancelled in March of 2020, collateral damage of the Covid shutdown.That left me with some significant flight credits that were only going to be good to the end … Continue reading “Returning to Greenland”

Glaciologist Jason Box is founder of Dark Snow Project, and has been my guide and mentor, now, in a half dozen crowd-funded expeditions on and around the Greenland ice sheet. Bill Maher interviewed Dr. Box in summer 2014, and discussed some of the first uses of (still somewhat primitive by today’s standards) drones to observe … Continue reading “Reposting: Jason Box on Bill Maher”

This year’s Dark Snow Project helped support a team from 350.org bring together an international communication effort around ice melt and sea level rise. Today the work product premiers in the Guardian and a number of other newspapers around the world, along with an essay by Bill Mckibben. Bill McKibben in the Guardian: High up … Continue reading “Dark Snow Poetry Expedition Premiers”