Alarming Video Shows Arctic Ice Disappearing
You've probably heard that ice in the Arctic is melting. But you may have never seen it shown this clearly. A video from the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration shows 27 years of ice melting...
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Exclusive: Inside Google's Quest To Bring Polar Bears To You
Jennifer BogoA polar bear saunters away from Tundra Buggies in the Churchill Wildlife Management Area.Two hundred yards from the Churchill Airport in Manitoba, Canada, John Gunter pulls the van to the...
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Video of ishmDnxjE7gJust as we reach the breaking point for bad news about climate change, along comes something that kindles our hope for humankind: this sharp hack transforming trite automobile...
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2014: Will It Be The Hottest Year Ever?
May 2014 Temperature AnomaliesNOAAGlobally, May 2014 was the hottest May since record-keeping began. Above-average temperatures beset much of the Western U.S. (as well as Australia, eastern Eurasia,...
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Scientists Spend Arctic Winter Adrift On An Ice Floe
Sunset Over The Arctic IceNASA Goddard Space Flight Center, CC by 2.0When it comes to travel, the Arctic is not a typical destination, especially in the depths of winter. And even the most hardy...
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Whitening The Arctic Ocean Won't Save The Planet
Icebergs Near GreenlandGuido Appenzeller/FlickrCC by 2.0On top of droughts, rising sea levels, and all the other terrible, horrible, no good, very bad environmental news out there, melting permafrost...
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Shell Can Start Drilling For Oil In The Arctic Ocean This Summer
Arctic Sea IceUSGS/FlickrCC by 2.0Today, the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management (BOEM) granted Shell approval to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean. Once the...
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Greenpeace Banned From Flying Drones Near Arctic Oil Rigs
Shell Oil Rig With Kayaking ProtestersBackbone Campaign, via Wikimedia Common CC BY 2.0When Shell starts drilling in the Arctic this summer, they will do so free of harassment from robots, thanks to an...
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Weird, Extra Small Viruses Discovered In Remote Arctic Lakes
Lake Linnevatnet, Spitsbergen, SvalbardPhotograph provided by Antonio AlcamiThe Arctic lakes in Svalbard, Norway are among of the most pristine, isolated bodies of water on the planet. But that doesn't...
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Melting Ice Could Wake Up Ancient Frozen Viruses
Arctic IceUS Geological SurveyMelting polar regions are already causing unprecedented sea level rise but there are other threats besides water buried in the swiftly melting ice.Since 2003, large...
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Warming Arctic Is Overrun With Giant Mosquitoes
Feeding MosquitoCDCHey, global warming. Yeah, you. Lay off the Arctic, ok? You're already increasing the length and severity of the wildfire season. You're releasing ancient viruses from the...
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Polar Bears Might Survive Ice Melting By Hunting New Prey
Polar bears near the coast of the western Hudson BayAMNH/R.F. RockwellPolar bears are often used as the face of climate change and the melting of the Arctic. They have long been cast as one of the...
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Shell To Cease Controversial Offshore Oil Exploration In Alaska
Shell Oil Rig With Kayaking ProtestersBackbone Campaign, via Wikimedia Common CC BY 2.0That was quick.Just five months after oil company Shell was granted permission to drill oil wells off the Alaskan...
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The U.S. Interior Department Halts Future Arctic Oil Drilling
A platform designed for arctic oil explorationRoyal Dutch ShellThe Interior Department announced today it will stop selling new Arctic drilling leases for future scheduled sales, and it will not extend...
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Fossilized Tropical Forests Found In Arctic
Bernt Rostad/FlickrCC by 2.0Reindeer in SvalbardThis is what Svalbard looks like today, but millions of years ago, the landscape and climate were very different.Svalbard, Norway is known for it's...
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Do People Who Grow Up in the Arctic See Better in the Dark?
Jason SchneiderPeople who live north of the Arctic Circle experience two months each year with no direct sunlight. During the dark winters, the only natural illumination people experience is twilight,...
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Melting Sea Ice Reveals Wreckage From 19th Century Whaling Fleet
NOAAShipwreck remainsAn anchor and other artifacts from the 1871 shipwrecks lie on the ocean floor.Life on a whaling ship during the 19th century was full of risk. There were long months at sea in...
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Arctic Report: Inside An Icebreaker Ship
Breanna DraxlerOn the Heli PadWe launched conversations rather than a helicopter this time around.As I board the Norwegian Coast Guard's icebreaking ship the KV Svalbard, officers greet me with...
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This Is What A Russian-American Expedition To The Arctic Looks Like
Animals Men dressed as bears Even if Elon gets a lot of the attention these days, there are many other Musks in the world.
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The Last Oil Company Has Begun To Pull Out of Alaskan Arctic Region
Energy Drilling in Chukchi Sea is almost at an end The last oil and gas company has abandoned 55 of its drilling leases in the Alaskan arctic region of the Chukchi Sea and has announced that it will...
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