Publications

Last Ice Area technical report
A technical report on the Last Ice Area, commissioned by WWF.15 February 2013

Icon on Ice: International Trade and Management of Polar Bears
A report from the wildlife trade monitoring organization TRAFFIC concludes that the major threat to polar bears is not international commercial trade, but habitat loss due the rapid melting ...29 October 2012

Important marine areas in the Arctic
Taking the icy lid off the Arctic opens this environment to new opportunities but also to new threats and new aspects of existing threats.24 September 2012

The 'RACER' (Rapid Assessment of Circumarctic Ecosystem Resilience) project is a tool to help governments and communities around the Arctic safeguard the functioning ecosystems peo...
24 April 2012

Warming in the Arctic could lead to flooding affecting one quarter of the world’s population, substantial increases in greenhouse gas emissions from massive carbon pools, and extreme globa...
2 September 2009

Oil Spill Response Challenges in Arctic Waters
Arctic marine conditions contribute to an oil spill “response gap” that effectively limits the ability to clean up after an oil spill. A new report commissioned by WWF concludes that th...1 January 2008

2 degrees is too much!: Evidence and implications of dangerous climate change in the Arctic
What would a full 2°C global rise mean for the Arctic? WWF research shows perennial Arctic ice is melting by nearly 10% a decade. It’s on course to disappear entirely by the end of the ce...1 January 2005