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Outside June 2002 Natasha Singer |
My Iceland Obsession Only on this remote North Atlantic island do you find such glorious quirks as tolting ponies and entire villages of sleep-deprived puffin chasers...  |
Smithsonian July 2007 J. Madeleine Nash |
Chronicling the Ice Long before global warming became a cause celebre, Lonnie Thompson was extracting climate secrets from ancient glaciers. He finds the problem is even more profound than you might have thought.  |
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 Erico Guizzo |
Into Deep Ice What does the future hold for Earth's ice? A group of British researchers seeks answers in the bowels of a glacier.  |
High on Adventure August 2006 Lee Juillerat |
Capitalizing on the outdoors Juneau is more than just a place to pass through while traveling the Inland Passage or making your way to Glacier Bay. It's also a place where residents, and travelers with insight, capitalize on the outdoors.  |
Smithsonian October 2006 Anne Bolen |
Life in the Field - Frozen in Time Glaciers in the Pacific Northwest have recorded hundreds of years of climate history, helping researchers plot how quickly the planet is warming.  |
Outside October 2002 Ian Frazier |
Terminal Ice Hot enough for you? Go to the bottom of the planet -- or the top -- and you can't miss the warning signs of a warm apocalypse. And at the heart of the mystery, like broken shards of a colder climate, float the icebergs, ghost-white messengers trying to tell us something we can't fathom.  |
Outside November 2003 Mark Jenkins |
Head Trip Sometimes the toughest climb is out of your mind and into your own animal skin: knowing how, as an alpine climber, to turn off your head sometimes.  |
Geotimes October 2003 Sara Pratt |
New model for glacial erosion Understanding what controls glacial erosion may have important implications for understanding glaciated mountain belts and modeling both ancient and current ice sheets.  |
AskMen.com August 19, 2003 Harry Marks |
Idyllic Iceland Once viewed as Europe's forgotten piece of land and a barren ice-country, Iceland has vastly improved its status.  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2011 Paden et al. |
A Next-Generation Ice Radar Scientists can now probe polar ice sheets better than ever using synthetic-aperture radar  |
Scientific American July 2008 Peter Brown |
NASA Satellites Watch Polar Ice Shelf Break into Crushed Ice Ice is melting at the poles much faster than climate models predict.  |
Outside February 2004 Natasha Singer |
Break On Through The dream of a Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic to the riches of Asia has driven explorers and visionary adventurers for centuries. With climate change in the air, The author braves the frigid 900-mile journey to find out if the old, mythic dream is becoming an epic new reality.  |
Smithsonian August 2005 Laura Helmuth |
Phenomena and Curiosities: Baked Alaska A unique study documents the disappearance of Alaska's glaciers, blamed on global warming.  |
Popular Mechanics March 15, 2010 Trevor Williams |
Iceberg Forensics: Predicting the Planet's Future With Antarctic Ice Something new is happening with the ice streams and glaciers. They are getting thinner, and they are getting thinner because they are speeding up.  |
Popular Mechanics February 2007 Jeff Wise |
Building Canada's Epic Ice Road The truckers who haul 70-ton rigs hundreds of miles across Canada's frozen lakes aren't afraid of much except warm weather.  |
Outside December 2007 |
Kayaking Chile California-whitewater pioneer Reg Lake has paddled and guided more of Chile's 4,000-mile coastline than anyone. His latest adventure takes him into the North Arm's inner reaches and the Grey Glacier.  |
Science News February 14, 2009 Lonnie Thompson |
Receding Glaciers Erase Records Of Climate History Ice masses on the tops of mountains -- sticking out in the free atmosphere -- have been collecting climate data and storing them, in many cases for very long periods.  |
Geotimes December 2006 |
Top Climate News Stories of 2006 A new public face for climate change... Strong debate over storms... Thawing ice shifts water cycles... Methane climate menagerie... etc.  |
Popular Mechanics April 2007 Margo Pfeiff |
Voyage to the Top of the Earth (Almost) To reach the High Arctic, a Canadian coast guard icebreaker needs 17,000 horsepower, six diesel/electric engines and one slippery coat of paint.  |
Geotimes December 2003 Callan Bentley |
Touring tectonics in Iceland Iceland is becoming a standard destination for global travelers. The country's geological attractions though, have always been good reasons to visit Iceland; the recent deals associated with a tourism campaign are only icing on the geologist's cake.  |
Real Travel Adventures July 2005 June Lee |
Living in Iceland Reykjavik, Iceland is a colorful and spacious capital with many treats to offer such as museums and restaurants.  |
Scientific American September 2008 Krista West |
Researchers hone seismic skills to peer inside glaciers Seismic data enable scientists to peer inside melting glaciers before they calve  |
Real Travel Adventures February 2005 Nell Raun-Linde |
Swiss Alpine Interlude After 2 days of gray skies and intermittent rain in Bern, Switzerland, this sunny day would be the perfect one to see the peaks of the Eiger, the Monch and the Jungfrau mountains.  |
Adventure May 2004 Tim Cahill |
Blown Away Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all believed to have a decided effect on human behavior and are associated with such health problems as migraines, depression, lethargy, and moodiness.  |
Geotimes November 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Iceland volcano erupts The Grimsvotn volcano started to explosively erupt on Nov. 1, three hours after a swarm of earthquakes indicated the onset of an event. The volcano sits beneath the middle of the Vatnajokull ice cap -- Europe's largest.  |
BusinessWeek January 15, 2007 Stanley Holmes |
Thrills And Chills Scaling frozen walls isn't for the fainthearted. But once you find your footing, ice climbing can become addictive.  |
Geotimes September 2005 Kathryn Hansen |
Around Mount Rainier The stratovolcano has not erupted since a few small events were recorded in the early 1800s. But numerous lahars -- mudflows triggered by various events -- continue to reshape the landscape, and the effects are visible throughout the park today.  |
DailyCandy January 14, 2006 |
Travel: The Thrill Ain't Gone Several suggestions for travel destinations that include adventurous activities.  |
Geotimes August 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Doubling the Ice Record A team of European researchers released their first round of results from the longest ice core ever to be recovered from a polar glacier. Measurements show some interesting temperature shifts that may cause climatologists to reevaluate their models.  |
Wired December 22, 2008 Ben Paynter |
Mr. Freeze: How Julian Bayley turns Ice Cubes into Ice Castles Julian Bayley, co-founder of Ice Culture, has a way with ice. He cuts. He shapes. He sands and polishes to create extravagant frozen structures in luxe playgrounds.  |
Adventure August 2004 Lolly Merrell |
The Vanishing World of Lonnie Thompson A secret history of the world's climate, including global warming, is buried deep inside glaciers atop the world's tallest peaks. But as temperatures rise, those records are melting. One paleontologist/climatologist is racing to preserve a crucial piece of our past- in his freezer.  |
Geotimes December 2003 Naomi Lubick |
Glacial earthquakes Seismologists have fingered glaciers as one source of newly discovered "slow" earthquakes.  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 William Sweet |
Victor Zagorodnov: Getting High on Glaciers How did a Russian who worked his way through an institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, earning degrees in electrical engineering and hydrology, end up working in Ohio for the world's leading research group in the field of tropical and subtropical glaciers?  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2013 Dave Levitan |
Laser Eyes Spy a Big Melt in the Arctic Airborne altimeters yield a disturbing picture of polar ice loss  |
Geotimes March 2006 Naomi Lubick |
Great Lakes of Antarctica Two "great lakes," each more than 1,000 square kilometers in area and buried deep under Antarctic ice, are giving scientists a new view of the continent and how such large lakes formed there.  |
Geotimes November 2007 Nicole Branan |
Water Pours Through Pores in Sea Ice Scientists have come up with a new model that describes how water moves through the Arctic sea ice beneath melt ponds, helping them to make better climate predictions.  |
Outside April 2009 Eric Hansen |
Are You Happy Now? In which Eric the Thumb hitches around post-crash Iceland during the gloom of winter and finds...strangely giddy natives  |
Fast Company October 2000 Ian Wylie |
Whoosh! Iceland's Got A Hot Idea With the patience of a visionary, Bragi Arnason has been talking up the power of hydrogen power for more than 20 years. Now the energy elite is finally paying attention.  |
Real Travel Adventures November 2006 Sheila O'Connor |
Chill Out at the Ice Hotel and Have an "Ice Stay" "Beautiful. And frigid". That's the comment left by one brave guest at Canada's famed Ice Hotel on the shores of beautiful Lac St.-Joseph, a mere 20 minutes west of Quebec.  |
Real Travel Adventures April 2007 Bonnie & Bill Neely |
Alberta's Wonder Landscape Enjoy the multiple beautiful landscapes, people, mountains, rivers, National and Provencial Parks in Canada.  |
AskMen.com Ryan Murphy |
Top 10: Unofficial Wonders of the World Nearly everyone knows about the seven wonders of the ancient world. Here are 10 more awe-inspiring sites that are equally worthy of exultation -- and visitation.  |
Geotimes March 2006 Powell et al. |
Drilling Back to the Future Antarctica plays a fundamental role in sea-level change and ocean chemistry, and has the potential for important societal impacts over human timescales.  |
Popular Mechanics March 18, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
Mars Researchers Take an Arctic Road Trip This trip is meant to be a dry run for an even more extreme environment -- the surface of Mars.  |