Scientists Give Odds On Arctic Sea Ice Shrinkage
Sea ice forms as ocean water freezes. Sea-ice extent is the area of an ocean covered by at least 15 percent ice. Arctic sea ice has been declining since the late 1970s, and scientists believe this is caused by rising winter temperatures in the ... [... more]
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Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, ...
 In recent years, the history of nineteenth-century Arctic exploration has been the subject of renewed fascination. When every land seems already explored, and space travel has declined in scope and prestige, the northern exploits of our Victorian ... [... more]
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Summer Movements And Behavior Of An Arctic Wolf, Canis ...
A pupless arctic Wolf pack (two adults, three yearlings) studied 5-30 July 1993 on Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories, traveled nomadically around an area ?381 km², but the alpha pair sometimes left the ... [... more]
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Arctic Coring Expedition
JD: About 55 million years ago there was an event called the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. It was a period when the Earth warmed up very, very fast. We found that event at the bottom of our hole, which means the Arctic opened up 5 (million) ... [... more]
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Archives: Why The Arctic Turned From Greenhouse To Icehouse
Until last summer, no one had extracted geological samples from maritime latitudes so high. But today a mile and a half of Arctic seafloor core samples await analysis. These cylinders of rock, mud and stone--about the width of a man's arm--are ... [... more]
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Arctic Sea Ice Melting Faster Than Predicted
"This suggests that current model projections may in fact provide a conservative estimate of future Arctic change, and that the summer Arctic sea ice may disappear considerably earlier than IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) ... [... more]
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Mysterious Clouds Creeping Out Of The Arctic
On June 11, 2007 the cameras on the AIM satellite returned some of the first data documenting noctilucent clouds over the Arctic regions of Europe and North America. White and light blue represent noctilucent cloud structures. Black indicates ... [... more]
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Nasa: Arctic Meltdown Threatens Ice Cap's Stability
Ice can be depleted either by melting or by floating away. In 2005, the study found, the typically small amount of ice that moves out of the Arctic in summer was unusually high--about 7 percent of the perennial ice coverage area. Kwok said the ... [... more]
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Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at ...
While reading Valerian Albanov's In the Land of White Death, David Roberts came across the mention of an old legend of four shipwrecked Russian sailors who had managed to survive six years stranded on a barren island in the high Arctic. Incredulous, ... [... more]
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Alone Against the Arctic
Two audacious Alaskan journeys are depicted in this captivating adventure tale. In the winter of 1897 98, three officers from the U.S. cutter Bear set off from below the Arctic Circle with the goal of driving a herd of reindeer over 1,500 miles of frozen ... [... more]
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RVing into Canada's Arctic ('RVing in...' travelogue series)
Tells it like it is! by Peggi MacDonald, a full-time RVer John and Liz Plaxton tell it like it is in their newest book `RVing into Canada's Arctic'. They rave about the great places they saw and provide an interesting account of the many joys and ... [... more]
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The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic ...
The Arctic of towering icebergs and midnight sun, of flaming auroras and endless winter nights, has long provoked flights of the imagination. Now, in The Last Imaginary Place, renowned archeologist Robert McGhee lifts the veil to reveal the true Arctic ... [... more]
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