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Normally, smashing a transportation record is something to celebrate. This time, however, it’s not necessarily worth cheering. Sovcomflot’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker Christophe de Margerie has become the first merchant ship to cross the Northern Sea Route without an icebreaker clearing its path. The vessel, which can plow through ice up to 6.9 feet […]
It turned out to be the most pivotal decision of Candice Lys’ life: continue with a research stint in Greenland or return home to Canada’s far north and deliver arts-based HIV-prevention workshops. Lys picked door No. 2. But at 9 a.m. on a Saturday five years ago, Lys opened the door to her debut workshop […]
Arctic sea ice is unexpectedly in motion, making the research trip far too dangerous for the ship and the scientists it would be carrying. https://assets.wired.com/photos/5941b32aaae1c722e8a11808/master/pass/CanadianBoatHP-B1X1Y8.jpg Wired
When melting permafrost poured into the entrance of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, there was an understandable worry. What good is safeguarding the world’s crops in the Arctic if even that area isn’t immune to the threat of climate change? Well, you can relax. Statsbygg, the Norwegian construction group behind the vault, has outlined “technical […]
Enlarge (credit: Mari Tefre/Svalbard Globale frøhvelv) In Arctic Svalbard, there is a vault that might sound like a sci-fi plot device. Completed in 2008, the Global Seed Vault is a remote archive for safeguarding seeds for thousands of cop varieties. If anything dramatic should happen elsewhere around the world, we want these seeds to be there. […]
Published time: 13 May, 2017 05:02 Environment monitoring satellites have captured the rapid increase in speed of an Arctic glacier as it starts moving 13 times faster than before. The Negribreen glacier on Norway’s Spitsbergen island has seen a dramatic increase in ice surface speed over the past year with the pace jumping from one […]
Enlarge / One example of a methane seep (off the coast of Virginia, in this case). (credit: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program) Reports of methane bubbling up from the bottom of the East Siberian Sea may have induced some climate change anxiety. In recent years, plumes of methane bubbles rising up from what was once dry permafrost have […]
Russian Defense Ministry Russia has unveiled a new military base as part of its buildup in the Arctic region, and has provided a tour — albeit a virtual one on your computer. According to a report from FoxNews.com, the base is located on Franz Josef Land — an archipelago north of Novaya Zemlya that the […]
A team of researchers has begun a seven-month expedition through Russia’s most hard-to reach northern regions, taking on the longest on-land route above the Arctic Circle in Russian-made off-road vehicles. Read Full Article at RT.com RT – Daily news
Hearing some of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s exploits almost makes him seem like a crazy Bond villain. The man knows Judo, tracks polar bears, and occasionally drives F1 cars. Just this past week, while attending the International Arctic Forum in Arkhangelsk, Russia, Putin decided he needed to personally inspect an ice cave close to a […]
