Earliest Maps of Polar Sea Ice

The NSIDC project examined almost 40,000 images from the Nimbus-1 archive to produce the September 1964 maps of Arctic (L) and Antarctic (R) sea-ice extent By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, ...

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Iceland: No U.S. Leadership in Arctic

China and other Asian nations have been moving aggressively to exploit the commercial potential of the Arctic as more of the region becomes accessible for development and shipping in the increasingly ...

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Captain Scott’s Last Letter

Captain Scott at the South Pole and his final letter revealing his dying thoughts were of his wife and son Photo: Graham ...

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U.S. Pivots East; Russia Pivots North

By Jennifer Cayias April 22, 2013 At the Shangri-la Dialogue held in Singapore last June 2012, former U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta stated that the U.S. intends to shift the bulk of its ...

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Antarctica’s Sea Ice Expansion

from BBC News: Antarctic sea ice shows a small but significant expansion, in contrast to the trend seen in the Arctic Climate change is expanding Antarctica's sea ice, according to a scientific ...

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Begich Aims to Appoint U.S. Arctic Ambassador

by Mia Bennett, Alaska Dispatch Last month, I discussed Japan’s designation of Masuo Nishibayashi as Arctic ambassador -- the second Asian country to create such a position. While Japan joins ...

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18kg Meteorite Found in Antarctica

A team of scientists working at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica have discovered a meteorite weighing 18kg, the largest  such meteorite found in the region since 1988. The eight members of the ...

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Sea Ice Loss Affects More Than Arctic

The emerging view is that the Arctic will lose essentially all of its summer sea ice cover by the end of this century, perhaps as early as 2030-2040. The environmental and societal consequences of ...

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