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Russian tanker sails through Arctic without icebreaker for first time
A Russian tanker has travelled through the northern sea route in record speed and without an icebreaker escort for the first time, highlighting how climate change is opening up the high Arctic. The $300m Christophe de Margerie carried a cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Hammerfest in Norway to Boryeong in South Korea in 22 days, about 30% quicker than the conventional southern shipping route through the Suez Canal.
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First Tanker Crosses Northern Sea Route without Ice Breaker
Rising Arctic temperatures are boosting commercial shipping in the region, worrying environmentalists.
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Nobody Dies in Longyearbyen
MEL Films
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The Senate could OK the destruction of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
For the 24 years I was privileged to serve in the U.S. Senate, I opposed oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. The 19 million acres in the Arctic Refuge are some of the world’s wildest, most unspoiled lands and are a part of America’s great national heritage. The Arctic Refuge is one of the places on Earth where we come closest to glimpsing the creative work of God. It should inspire our awe and careful stewardship. The native Alaskan Gwich’in people refer to the Refuge’s 1.4 million acre coastal plain as “The Sacred Place Where Life Begins.”
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Scientists Capture Rare Footage of Spooky-Ass Arctic Jellyfish
Using a small robotic sub, scientists from Columbia University have captured rare video of arctic jellyfish slithering along the bottom of the Chukchi Sea near Utqiaġvik, Alaska. The footage came as a complete surprise to the researchers, who weren’t expecting to see jellyfish during the Arctic winter.
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Arctic warming happening faster than previously thought, report says
An international summary of five year's worth of research on Arctic climate change concludes the top of the world is getting warmer faster than anyone thought. And if it all sounds interesting but a little far removed from southern concerns, David Barber has news for you. "There are very clear linkages there and they've been occurring consistently for the last 10, 15 years," said Barber, one of Canada's top ice scientists and a prominent contributor to the report.
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Why Russia is sending robotic submarines to the Arctic
The harsh icy sea is one of Earth’s biggest gas and oil hotspots – and Russia’s sending its military to stake its claim. By David Hambling.
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Let it go: The Arctic will never be frozen again
There’s new evidence that an unprecedented transformation is underway at the North Pole. By Eric Holthaus.
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Is There A Ticking Time Bomb Under The Arctic?
A short drive north of Fairbanks, Alaska, there's a red shed stuck right up against a hillside. The shed looks unremarkable, except for the door. It looks like a door to a walk-in freezer, with thick insulation and a heavy latch. Whatever is behind that door needs to stay very cold. "Are you ready to go inside?" asks Thomas Douglas, a geochemist at the U.S. Army.
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Is There A Ticking Time Bomb Under The Arctic?
Just what exactly is permafrost? And what is happening now that it's warming up? To find out, we enter the Arctic Circle's secret world of ice and frozen history.
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Polar bears 'running out of food'
Tracking collars on female polar bears measure the animals' struggle to find food on diminishing Arctic ice.
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Mysterious 'Pants' Arch Baffles Internet, Geologists and Nunavut Tourism Office
Is this real? Only a select few have ever laid eyes on this sea arch, tucked away in Nunavut,Canada.
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Polar ice is lost at sea
Our planet reached another miserable milestone earlier this week: Sea ice fell to its lowest level since human civilization began more than 12,000 years ago. That worrying development is just the latest sign that rising temperatures are inflicting lasting changes on the coldest corners of the globe. The new record low comes as the planet’s climate system shifts further from the relatively stable period that helped give rise to cities, commerce, and the way we live now.
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Arctic temperatures soar 25 degrees above normal in the dead of winter
Shipping can navigate easily through the Arctic Ocean as the ice melts in abnormally high temperatures for February.
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Freakishly Warm Weather in the Arctic Has Climate Scientists 'Stunned'
During the Arctic winter, when the sun hides from October to March, the average temperature in the frozen north typically hovers around a bone-chilling minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 20 degrees Celsius). But this year, the Arctic is experiencing a highly unusual heat wave.
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Has the World's Hardest Race Gotten Too Deadly?
Temperatures were brutally low at this year’s running of the 300-mile competition, and one frostbitten competitor may lose his hands and feet. Is this just the price of playing a risky game, or does something need to change?
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Arctic sea ice hits second-lowest winter peak on record
Arctic sea ice has experienced its maximum extent for the year, reaching 14.48m square kilometers on 17 March – the second smallest in the 39-year satellite record.
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Tuktoyaktuk: Canada’s last Arctic village?
Canada’s 137km Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway is a vital new lifeline across unremittingly spartan tundra, but also a window on an almost-forgotten way of indigenous life.
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No one knows what created these strange shapes in the Arctic
Bizarre circular shapes spotted by a research plane in the Arctic's Beaufort Sea are puzzling NASA scientists.
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Barents Sea seems to have crossed a climate tipping point
This is probably what a climate tipping point looks like—and we're past it.
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